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She rolled her eyes when her father said that. Jax didn’t laugh, didn’t flinch, didn’t even comment.

“It’s nice to meet you,” Jax said. “I’ve heard a lot of great things about you. I’m glad Dillion has you in her life. Both of you. Not sure if she told you, but my sister was a single mother for a while. Well, her ex co-parents, but in the presence of a child, it’s best to keep my opinion of him to myself. My point is, that my sister is a strong independent woman like your daughter, but she still needed us all there for her. No one can do it alone.”

The tears that she’d been blinking back filled her eyes again.

Her parents looked at each other, her father asking, “Did you tell him to say that?”

“No,” she said. “I told you he was great. Just perfect. Do you believe me now?”

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HAPPILY HOOKED UP

“It’s been killing you to wait this long to come in and talk to someone, hasn’t it?” Roni asked.

Carolyn looked at Diane two weeks later and grinned. They were caught and she didn’t care.

“It might have,” she said. “But with Easter and all, we’ve been busy. Lots of grandkids to spoil and baskets to put together. How was your Easter with Eli?”

Carolyn and her sister-in-law had put their heads together and decided the best course of action was to get information from a third person.

They couldn’t keep stopping in to see Jax, and Dillion was almost impossible to pin down with patients filling her schedule.

That left Jax’s sister, Roni.

Roni would understand what was going on. Or more like what the two of them were going through, and appreciate the patience in letting Jax and Dillion figure it out.

Dillion and Jaxhadto have gone on a date by now.

She hoped.

“Easter was nice,” Roni said. “We had Eli early in the morning and spent it with my parents and Jax. Then after Idropped him off with my ex we went to Trent’s parents for dinner and spent it with them.”

“I know Raina and Cody were there,” Diane said. “My kids were at the house too, as Cody and Marissa’s parents didn’t come up for the short weekend.”

Trent’s sister, Raina, was married to Cody, and Cody was the brother of Marissa, who was married to Diane’s son Ryder.

“No,” Roni said. “Everyone was at Trent’s. I got to play with their son, Duke. You know, getting ready for my own baby.”

“Are you pregnant?” she asked, looking down at Roni’s belly as she sat at her desk.

Roni laughed. “I am. We are just letting people know. I’m due mid to late October. Four months after Megan’s baby.”

Megan was employed by Carolyn and Diane’s husbands at Fierce and married to Trent’s brother, Jonah.

All these couples they’d had a hand in matching up.

She high-fived Diane. “See, we do excellent work.”

Both of them hugged Roni and congratulated her. “We hope you put a good word in with your brother about how well we do,” Diane said. “Right?”

“Of course,” Roni said. “And yes, I know what is going on with him and Dillion.”

“How they both said yes,” she said. “Theywantedto be set up with each other. Unlike the rest of you that resisted us.”

Roni laughed. Her phone rang at her desk, so she held her hand up and answered.

Carolyn and Diane moved back to talk and give Roni space.

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