Page 99 of Keep On Loving You

“Ha!” Asher laughed. “You’re carrying their bed.”

Kat stared at her brother, who’d apparently turned into a teenager in the last few moments. “It’s just a?—”

“Oh, hell no.” Craig dropped his end of the mattress, causing Chase to do the same.

“Hey!” Andy jumped to grab the mattress before it fell over. “What are you?—”

“Look.” Craig held his hands up. “I’m good with you two, but it’s still weird and come on…that’s mysister.I can’t be carrying around the bed where you two—nope. Not doing it.”

“You are being ridiculous.” Kat crossed her arms and swallowed back a laugh. “Chase?”

Her eldest, and most reasonable, brother shook his head, too. “You know what? He’s got a point.”

“Fine.” She looked at Andy. “I guess I’ll have to do it.”

“No!”

“Kat!”

She burst into laughter and just to further make her point, rubbed her hands over her barely swollen belly and said, “How did you guys think your little niece or nephew?—”

“Enough.” Craig put his hands over his ears and stepped forward. “Let’s just get it in the bedroom so I can stop thinking about it.”

She laughed while everyone got back to work.

In the kitchen, her sister and sisters-in-law were making short work of unpacking—all except Lucy, who was almost ready to burst, sitting with her very swollen feet up on a chair.

“Wow. It’s really looking good in here, you guys. Thank you so much.”

“You know we’re happy to help,” Lucy said. “Not that I’m much help. But I’m getting pretty good at pointing out empty cupboards and drawers.”

Kat laughed. “I feel like I should be feeding you grapes.”

“What?”

“Never mind. Just something I mentioned to the guys, who all think I’m doing too much.”

“You know they mean well.” Charli aimed a smile in her direction. “We all do.”

“I know it. And I love you all for it. I really don’t think there’s going to be much for me to do once you leave.”

“Oh, I’m sure there will be one or two things for you to take care of.”

“There always is.”

“True. But some things can wait.” Kat let her gaze travel to the backyard and the exact spot where she wanted the swing set to go. “At least for a few more months.”

“There’s still so much to do.” Kat plopped down on the couch next to him. “Moving is so much work.”

“But we don’t have to do any of it right now.” Andy pulled her down so her head was resting in his lap. “Today has been a huge day.”

Moving always was. Even with the entire Carlson family helping all day, it had been a massive undertaking gettingthem from Kat’s apartment, and the storage unit where he’d been keeping his own apartment’s worth of things, into their new house.

But it was work worth doing. The house was perfect.

As if Kat had just read his mind, she looked up into his eyes. “I love our house.”

“I love you.” He kissed his finger and pressed it to her lips.

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