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“Woo Hoo!” Caleb raced off.
Reva rolled her eyes. “He doesn’t even know what car you drive,” she sighed at Phoebe. “I’ll go get him.” She turned and loped after her brother.
“Thanks for taking them to lunch, Mom,” Jax said, giving Phoebe a kiss on the cheek. And for one second, Niko missed his own mother fiercely.
Phoebe patted Jax’s cheek. “It’s my pleasure. It’s not often that I magically receive spontaneous grandchildren.”
She headed off in the direction Reva and Caleb had taken. And Niko thought of circles opening and closing.
“So how is it being a mom?” Niko asked Joey.
“Are you asking about the horse or the kids?” Jax joked.
Joey smacked him in the chest, and Jax rubbed absently at the spot. “You’re hilarious, Captain Hilarious Pants.”
Niko hid his smile.
“The kids are great. Funny, smart. I don’t know why Summer and Gia are whining about how hard it is. Reev and Cale made us pancakes for breakfast today.”
“Maybe having already potty-trained kids with some sense of impulse control is a little easier than twin toddlers or Aurora and a baby?” Niko offered.
“I think we’re just better at it than they are,” Joey said with a shrug and a grin.
“Yeah, make sure I’m not around if you decide to offer my brothers that nugget of insight,” Jax warned her.
Joey rubbed her hands together. “I’m still working on my delivery. I can’t wait to see Summer and Gia’s faces when I say it. They’re going to freak.”
“See why I love my diabolical wife?” Jax asked Niko.
“It would be hard not to,” Niko agreed.
“Where’s your woman?” Joey asked. “I wanted to ask her for her bruschetta recipe. My parents are coming tonight to meet the kids.”
“That reminds me, I need to swing by the brewery and pick up a six-pack,” Jax said, rubbing his palm over his chin.
Joey raised an eyebrow.
“I guess I’d better make that two six-packs,” Jax amended.
“I never would have thought in a billion years that you and my dad would be all BFFy,” she said shaking her head.
Jax gestured at himself. “What’s not to like?”
“What did your parents say about you two becoming instaparents?” Niko asked.
Joey grinned. “Nothing yet.”
“Jojo!” Jax whipped around to face her. “You didn’t tell them?”
She shrugged. “You know how they are. If you give them too much of a head’s up, they think too much.”
“So you’re just going to spring a seventeen-year-old and a six-year-old on them?”
“They think they’re coming to meet Eclipse.”
Jax groaned. “Diabolical.”
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
