Ky continues. “—was just telling us how this was his house. Care to share something with the class there, big sis?”
Yeah, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t want all the details, like how after two mind-blowing orgasms, she belted out asking me to move in.
Lauren gives my waist a gentle squeeze before releasing me and turns around with her back to us. She looks over her shoulder and smiles. “Oh, by the way, Finn moved in two days ago.” She walks away as if what she said was just nothing.
“Two days ago?” Kyler raises his voice, not in an angry way but shocked. Dani reaches out to grab her husband’s arm, but he brushes her off and stalks past me, following his sister into the kitchen, leaving Dani and me there alone.
I turn back to face her and give her a small smile with my hands in my pockets. She returns it and rocks back on her feet, running her hands over her belly.
I jerk my hands toward the stairs. “I’m going to go put a shirt on.”
She nods and laughs. “I’m going to go check on them and make sure my babies still have a daddy and an aunt by the time they’re done.”
I race up the stairs, taking them two at a time, and make sure that I’m back down there to help defuse the situation. Is Kyler really that upset over me moving in here? I’m a little confused over it all. I throw on a T-shirt and head back down to join the rest of them.
Kyler is sitting on the couch with his wife pressed up against him.
Lauren walks in with a beer in one hand and a glass of wine in the other.
“Hey,” she greets me with a smile from ear to ear. “Join me?”
I join her on the chair with her perched in my lap. I accept the beer in her hand. “So someone wanna fill me in on what the hell is going on?”
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bsp; Everyone directs their attention to Kyler, who is taking a swig of his beer.
“What?” He acts all innocently as if he didn’t just throw a little fit moments ago. “Oh, right, that.”
“Yeah, that,” I sputter, mocking him as Lauren settles in closer to me. I wrap one arm around her waist and trace circles on her hip bone with my thumb.
“Sorry about that, man. You know I had to try and act all protective of my sister, but honestly, I couldn’t be happier for you two. Honestly, I’m surprised it took you two this long to shack up.” Dani jabs his side, and he flinches. “What! I’m just saying.”
The man has a point. If I had had it my way, I might have moved my stuff in the night I went after her at Lucky’s. Hell, if we could’ve both gotten our heads out of our asses, we never would have lived apart to begin with.
“So, that was all just an act?”
“Yep. No hard feelings?” He cheers his bottle in my direction.
“No hard feelings.” I hoist my bottle up and gently clink it with his. I bring the bottle to my lips and take a sip.
“Now, you just have to deliver the news to Kate and hope she is just as nice.” Ah shit. He lets out a sinister laugh, and Lauren must sense the tension in my body.
She leans up and whispers in my ear. “You okay, babe? What, you’re not afraid of my twin, are you?” She lets out a little giggle, and I pull her tighter to me.
“You’re enjoying this way too much, aren’t you?”
She looks up at me, her long lashes framing those beautiful brown eyes and her smile highlighting her cheekbones. Holding her thumb and forefinger just millimeters apart, she laughs. “Just a little bit.”
I lean down and press my lips to hers. Moving to her ear so only she can hear, I whisper, “You’ll pay for that later.” I wink before focusing back to whatever Kyler had turned on the TV. I can’t hide the smile on my face though as to how Lauren squirms in my lap.
No matter what wrath I may face when it comes to Kate Lawson, nothing beats this feeling right now.
Three out of four—even though Dani tried to claim she counted as three herself—voted for pizza, which is why we’re all devouring the greasy Italian food of the gods when a rather angry-looking identical version of Lauren walks in. When our eyes meet, I know it’s about to go down.
Here we go. Showtime.
“You.” She points to me, and I freeze midbite. “Outside.”