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“Brooklyn is basically a lad,” I said.

“Hey.” She lightly shoved my shoulder as she walked past me holding baby Chloe.

“I mean that in the best way possible. That you’re one of the guys. One of us.”

“I knew what you meant.” She smiled and sat down on the other side of Matt.

Matt leaned over and kissed her.

“Lads on tour,” sighed Nigel.

“Cheer up, mate. We’re at the World Cup.” I gestured down to the pitch.

“You’re right. I guess it’s still a lads’ holiday with a woman and a baby. But we can’t get up to our shenanigans.”

“What shenanigans?” asked Brooklyn.

“I can’t speaketh them in front of a lady.”

“Then you probably shouldn’t be doing them, Nigel.”

Nigel sighed again.

“I want in,” said Jacob and pointed between me and Matt.

Matt slid to the side so Jacob could sit down next to me.

Other than the miserable plane ride, I was happy that the whole family had come along. It was a good opportunity to teach my grandson about cricket. I didn’t want Jacob to grow up to be a basic baseball bitch.

And Jacob could also be another useful pair of eyes. Karima was here somewhere. I just didn’t know which game she’d be at. Morocco sucked at cricket and didn’t have a team here…so Karima could be at any of the games. I’d just gotten tickets to all the biggest games in hopes that she’d done the same.

“Okay, little man,” I said down to my grandson. “I need your help scouting for pretty women.”

“What?” asked Matt.

“This isn’t about you, son.” I looked back down at Jacob. “Can you help me do that?”

Jacob nodded.

“If you find one, just point her out and...”

“There,” said Jacob and pointed to a redheaded woman a few rows ahead of us.

“Yeah, just like that, but...”

“There.” He pointed to another redhead walking to her seat.

“Great, but...”

“There.” He pointed to another redhead.

Why did he just keep pointing out hot redheads? And why were there so many hot redheads in India?

“And there.” He’d found another redhead really far away from us. The boy had good taste. She looked a lot like Ash.

Matt laughed as Jacob pointed out another hot redhead.

“What?” I asked.