Page 11 of Playful Summer

He takes my hand as he drives to the rental.

“Yay, me.” I sigh.

When we get to the house, Jared is already there.

“I did a check around the outside, let me go in first and you two wait on the porch.”

It takes him a few minutes to search the house.

“Let me know if anything is missing. You never know if he came in before.”

I nod as we head inside. I work as fast as I can throwing everything back into my suitcases. The good thing is that I had just started to unpack. So a lot of my things are still in boxes.

An hour later we’re almost done and we see two cars pull into the driveway. I watch as they all get out of the cars.

“Holy shit, those guys are huge.”

Paxton laughs. “Yeah, they make us look small. Come one, I’ll introduce you to everyone.”

We head out onto the porch. I watch them all hug each other.

“Piper, this is Enea Mancini. His kids, Lorenzo and Giovanna. Giacomo Bastianini and his kids, Francesco, Celestino and Isabella. Noah Mancini, Kostas and Artemis Nikolaidis and Eros Athanasiou.”

I smile at each of them as they all grab me and hug me.

“They like hugs. You’ll get used to it.” Rhett laughs.

“Thank you all for coming to help me.”

“We’re family.” Giovanna smiles.

CHAPTER SIX

Piper

It takes us another hour to finish packing up and loading everything into the cars.

“Oh thank god. I’m riding with you. I refuse to be squished between my brothers again,” Isabella says to me.

Celestino comes over and puts her in a headlock.

“Get off me, you dick.” Isabella laughs.

“Sorry. My children are usually more well behaved than this.” Giacomo laughs.

We all laugh as Isabella and Celestino start kicking each other.

“If your mother was here—” Giacomo starts to say.

“Maybe next time we need to bring our wives. They know how to wrangle our spawn.” Enea chuckles.

Giacomo nods. “That’s a good plan.”

“Everyone’s coming here for our wedding right?” Rhett asks as we continue packing.

“Definitely. Everyone’s already packing.” Enea smiles.

“The kids are so excited to see everyone.”

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