McKenzie Cousins Box Set 4

Something has to give, though. We can’t go on fucking like bunnies. We can’t be together without my dick being inside her tight little pussy. Snapping my eyes shut, I know I’m screwed, and it’s only just hit me.

I’m in a serious fucking relationship. There is nothing to panic about. I’m a grown-ass man at twenty-eight. I’m the only one in my family who doesn’t have a significant other, so why the fuck is my heart about to beat out of my chest with panic? Gretchen is beautiful on the inside and out and…and I’m in love with her.

Oh. My. God!

How the hell did that happen?

Stop being an idiot.

I wipe my sweaty palms down the leg of my jeans and move to grab a clean black t-shirt, dropping the other in my gym bag. Swallowing around the lump in my throat, I exhale a shuddering breath and head back to work.

Rob gives me a knowing glance and Levi is busy kissing face with a dark-haired girl. At least I can avoid one of the two or I can keep my head down and avoid both.

Gretchen is the only girl for me, that is all I know. I just need to figure everything else out because the thought of marriage and kids scares me to death. However, we’ve only been together a week even though it was four years in the making.

No need to panic.

39

The McKenzie Men

Sebastian stalked into Kenza, where his nephew’s bachelor party was taking place. He looked around. Found his brothers. And headed straight toward them. They’d already claimed the large round booth nearest to the bar. He shook his head. Apart from getting older, the dynamics were the same. However, Noah had been part of the brothers since he’d met Ramon. Also, Sebastian’s son-in-law—he still hadn’t gotten used to referring to Derek, who was nearly as old as he was, in that way—and his brother, Michael’s, son-in-law, Garrett, tended to join them.

He’d never seen that coming. His daughter, Madison, was head over heels in love with Derek, so who was he to complain? All he ever wanted for his daughter was to find a man who cherished her. She had in Derek. Didn’t mean Sebastian didn’t wince every time he heard the man referred to as his son-in-law. Made him feel twenty years older.

Lucien, his oldest brother, sat nursing an Irish whiskey, his eyes on him. Sebastian grinned and shoved his brother over to make room. “So”—he met each one in the eye—“I think we need to embarrass our kids and give them the condom talk.”

Ruben choked on his drink while Garrett and Tanner gave him a confused look.

Sebastian explained, “As the boys reached the age of fifteen, we gave them the ‘sex’ talk and showed them how to put a condom on a ba

nana.” He grinned. “At least there were no accidental pregnancies while they were still at school.”

“Jaxon was still at school,” Ruben added, about his son.

Sebastian rolled his eyes. “He’d finished, so knocking Poppy up doesn’t count.”

“They loved that talk,” Lucien commented, dryly.

“What about the girls?” Derek asked.

Ruben groaned and dropped his face into his hands. Lucien chuckled. Ramon snorted while taking a drink. Noah hit him on the back. And Sebastian was bursting to tell Garrett about his wife, but he glanced at Michael first. That did it. It took a lot to embarrass his brother but remembering giving Sirena the birds and the bees talk, did it every damn time.

“The girls got the talk”—Sebastian smirked—“however, Sirena, so we discovered, had done her own research.” He shook his head and met Garrett’s frown. “Before you get the wrong idea,” he added. “She’d known the talk was coming, so had used her father’s computer to find everything out for herself, her aim, to embarrass us.”

“Don’t remind me,” Michael moaned. “Her search history can never be unseen.”

Garrett laughed, relaxing. “Do I want to know?”

“I’m never repeating it.” Michael lowered his voice. “Lily thought it was hilarious, as did my brothers.”

“Sirena asked questions,” Lucien told Garrett. “Lots of questions about, um, certain parts of the male anatomy.”

Ramon grinned. “As Michael is her father, we did the right thing and sat back and watched him squirm while he tried to come up with answers.”

“I did offer to answer her questions, being an expert on the male anatomy, but I got scowled at by her father,” Noah added with a wink at Ramon.

Sebastian bust a nut laughing. “Michael sweated and finally told her to ask her mother…I still think we should have recorded it.”