He chuckled and took a drink of his beer. “If you did, I missed it too.”
Once they finally got themselves under control, Jeff let out a sigh and wiped at his eyes. “Oh man. Shit, I must have needed a good laugh.”
Gunner looked at me and shook his head. “When we were your age, Jase, my grandfather I swore had some kind of detection system. If you were close to having any kind of . . . relations . . .” he said lifting his eyebrows. “You could almost plan on Gramps walking in and stopping it.”
Jeff blew out a breath and smiled as if remembering something. “I had to have extra locks put on our house because Garrett had walked in and called out Ari or mine’s names one to many times.”
My father and I both laughed. “And it wasn’t just us. He did it with everyone.” Gunner turned to Jeff. “He even banged on the hotel door at Heather and Josh’s wedding when Ellie and I snuck away for some . . . alone time.”
With another round of laughter, Jeff shook his head and lifted his hands up. “Sorry. Sorry, it’s just funny as hell to know the old man still has it in him.”
Taylor came walking into the kitchen looking flustered. “I need water.”
“Why? What’s wrong?” I asked as I quickly poured her a glass.
“Sweetheart, are you okay? You look like you’ve seen a ghost,” Amanda said as she walked up to Taylor.
Ari walked up to Jeff and smiled. “What’s with the grin from ear to ear?”
“Garrett stopped Taylor and Jase from sneaking away.”
Amanda and Ari both laughed. “Old man still has it,” Grace said as Amanda tried not to laugh harder.
Taylor frantically shook her head. “Oh God, don’t say that. Then that means she still has it too . . . oh shit.”
Amanda faced Taylor again. “What? What’s wrong?”
When Taylors beautiful green eyes shot over and pierced mine, my heart dropped to my stomach.
“Nothing. It’s nothing. I think all the st
ress from last week hit me all at once. I’m not feeling very well. Jase? Would you mind if we left?”
Turning to Layton, Taylor said, “I know everyone is here and I hate taking him away.”
Kissing her on the top of the head, he replied, “No I don’t mind. No one will mind. Y’all get home and get a good night’s sleep and I’m sure you’ll feel better tomorrow.”
Grace and Amanda glimpsed at one another before Amanda grinned and said, “Sweetheart, y’all take off. Don’t worry about anyone else they will all understand.”
“Go out the back door so you can slip away without Garrett catching you,” Grace said with a wicked smile.
The idea of being alone with Taylor was too strong of an urge to pass up. Walking up to her, I reached for her hand and pulled her with me.
“You heard them. Let’s go, Taylor.”
Jeff and Gunner busted out laughing as we walked past them.
Once we got outside, I spun around and pressed my lips to hers. “Don’t think about anything but me kissing every inch of your body.”
Her eyes searched my face. “Emma said I was pregnant. Did I ever tell you how incredibly accurate that woman is with that kind of stuff?”
I chuckled and leaned my forehead against hers. “You’re on the pill, Taylor. Everything is fine as long as you kept taking them last week.”
She nodded slightly. “I did.”
“Then don’t worry. Come on . . . let’s go home. Colt said they left Bella in her crate at the house. I’m dying to see her and smell her puppy breath.”
“Sounds good,” she replied weakly as I wrapped my arm around her and led her to the truck.