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“Jesus, fuck, that’s a huge privacy violation.”

I nodded. “I emailed the practice owner, and I’ll wait and see what he says, but I have a feeling we may be putting in a formal complaint about Jennifer Lowe.”

A slow smile spread over Gideon’s face. “I haven’t had a good, vicious court case in a while. She upset our daughter. I say we do it.”

I smirked at him. “I’ll let you know as soon as I get a response.”

Gideon chuckled. “Who knew growing our family would result in so many lawsuits for me?”

Chapter 42

Beth

When Joey had returned from school the night before, she watched the sonogram with rapt attention as Jensen explained it to her. She had been so confused as to how the wiggling bean on the screen could be her sibling, but Jensen took plenty of time to explain it.

“Are you going to be here for Christmas?” Joey asked as we rummaged through the boxes of Christmas decorations scattered around the living room.

“I am!” I confirmed with an enthusiastic nod.

I had hardly spoken to my family since that disastrous weekend and the bullshit Hayden had pulled. They had texted several times, but I hadn’t bothered to reply. Dodging their calls was becoming second nature. My brother hadn’t been served yet—Gideon had told me that he had filed the suit, but it would be a week or two for it to be delivered to him—so for some reason, they thought I would come running home, same as usual.

Instead of worrying about what they did or didn’t believe about me, I was ignoring them while focusing on decorating with Joey. We had picked out some new decorations, as well as pulling numerous boxes from the attic. Not thatwehadretrieved the boxes from the attic. We had simply directed the guys to do as we bid.

Joey nodded. “When are we going to get all the stuff for your room?”

I had officially moved into the nest, and Joey was thrilled, but she had insisted I needed more blankets.

“Some of my friends at school go get Christmas nest stuff from the big store. I’ve never been there. Have you?” she asked.

I paused, cocking my head to the side. What did she mean bythe big store? The nesting supply store? It wasn’t uncommon for omegas to take their young daughters shopping with them, especially if they thought there was a chance they could be an omega themselves. Nesting was one of the few habits of omegas that were encouraged at a young age.

While I hadn’t planned to go to a nesting store…I wasn’t exactly going to turn down an excuse to go to one, either.

“I’ve been there once or twice. You know what? My nest is pretty empty. I think we could do a bit of shopping.”

Joey’s eyes lit up. “When?” she asked excitedly, jumping up and down on the spot.

Leaning over to the coffee table, I picked up my phone and opened the pack group chat.

Bethany:

Joey and I have decided that the nest needs more blankets, so we’re going shopping.

Cullen:

I’ll join you when I finish up here.

Jensen:

No fair, I’m stuck cleaning up scraped knees.

Cullen:

You’re the one who decided to work with a hockey team.

“How about now?” I asked, putting my phone down. “Daddy C is going to meet us after he finishes work.”

“Yes! Let’s go.” She jumped up, untangling the fairy lights forgotten. We could do that later…or we could convince the dads to.

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