“You are not helping,” I growled.
“Obviously not. And you definitely need to talk. I’ll take Lily upstairs with me since she’s face-planted into her Legos.”
I twisted and sure enough, Lily was out for the count. It seemed as if she did her best sleeping in the middle of chaos. Which was a very good thing considering the insanity our lives had become.
“Bye, girls. And that invitation is open-ended.” He gave me a long look, followed by a panty-incinerating smile. He stripped off his wet shirt without even looking at me.
My sisters were swooning behind me. Quickly, I moved the camera so he was out of view.
“Dammit, what’s with denying me my Magic Mike moment, Hannah?”
I ignored Rachel, but I sneaked another peek or eleven of my own.
Damn, he was gorgeous.
He scooped up a sleeping Lily, then he looked over his shoulder with an arched brow. At this point, things were so far out of control that I went with impulse and gave him a wolf whistle.
The quick flash of his smile made my belly flip. I frowned a little when he went the long way around to go up the stairs. He probably wanted to take up his wet suit jacket too.
Or give us another chance at a peep show, the exhibitionist.
I turned back to my sisters.
“Now explain.” Rachel pointed at me, so much like our mom used to do when she was looking for juicy gossip.
I sighed. “This is going to take a while.”
“Let’s start at the beginning.” Rachel propped her chin on her hands. “Don’t leave anything out.”
Emma elbowed Rachel over. “I want to hear too.”
“It all started on a snowy New Year’s Eve.”
Rachel gave an exaggerated sigh. “Yeah, this is going to be good.”
I indulged my sisters for a little while. Knowing Asher would be taking care of Lily let me have some much-needed sister time. Even if a lot of the teasing was at my expense. I might have given a little more detail than I should have for impressionable nineteen-year olds, but I fell into telling them about Asher.
About Lily.
About the crazy life we were making by accident.
We discussed absurd baby names and that I might end up with an October baby depending on how the pregnancy went. How dates for actual pregnancy didn’t make sense at all. Not to mention that the two of them needed to be way more careful about protection than I had been.
“You don’t have to tell me, but just please be careful.”
“Ugh, don’t pull on your Aunt Hannah suit. Stay in the sister role, please.” Rachel buried her face in her hands.
“I’ll tell you one thing. Do not hook up with guys from Crescent Cove. There’s now a bumper sticker circulating that there’s something in the water here. Literally.”
“Really?” Emma’s eyes got huge.
“There’s a ridiculous baby boom going on here. Each time I make a delivery for Hannah’s Helping Hands, I hear another report of someone having a baby.”
“So, the boom-chicka-wow-wow is going viral in Crescent Cove? This I gotta see.”
I lifted the camera to my face. “No, you will not.”
Emma’s peal of laughter was so nice to hear. It had been a long time since we were able to talk. Some of it was my own fault. I didn’t want to be a burdensome older sister when they were just finding themselves.