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“Vinnie!” his mom gasped at the same time that Pax yelled, “I know!”
She glared at her husband. “Don’t go putting any ideas in Pax’s head. I just got done telling him to leave her alone.”
“Why?” Archer asked with raised brows. “I thought you liked her.”
Pax watched them go back and forth, his dads backing him up without even knowing they were doing it.
“I do!” Taffy tossed her hands in the air. “That’s why I don’t want Pax and the others to ruin it!”
Her husbands looked at her blankly.
“Your son is exactly like the two of you were when we first met. She’s bound to get her heart smashed.”
“Did we smash yours?” Vinnie asked, his expression softening as he looked at his wife.
“No, but—”
Pax grimaced. It wasn’t a secret that his dads had sown their wild oats far and wide before they’d met his mom, and she was still salty about it. It was partly why she was so prickly with them about the Trisha situation.
“Honey,” Archer walked around her desk and kneeled beside her. “When our son and his brothers meet their one, everything changes. I know that because it’s what happened to us.”
“I take it, you’re interested in the woman?” his dad asked him, his expression as serious as Pax had ever seen it.
“I saw her for less than a minute and already I can’t stop thinking about her.” Pax shared, rubbing his jaw. “I want to take care of her; learn everything I can about her. The only thing she said was ‘hi’ to me, but I can already tell you I’d listen to that woman talk forever if she’d let me. It’s crazy and I don’t know what the fuck that means but it’s true. There’s something special about her.”
“See, Taff?” Archer squeezed his wife’s hand. “He’s not gonna fuck this up. We didn’t raise an idiot.”
“But what about Vinyl, or Tanner?” She looked at her son for answers. “It’s not just you I’m worried about, honey. Those two are part of the package. What about them?”
“We’re not assholes, Mom.” Pax wasn’t sure why his mom’s opinion of them was so low, but he planned on changing it soon.
“I didn’t say you were,” she argued with a shake of her head. “I just don’t think Elena’s on the same level as you three.”
“Level?” he echoed in question. “What does that even mean?”
“I think your mom is trying to say that Elena is less experienced than the ladies’ you guys normally spend your evenings with,” his dad answered diplomatically. “She’s not a hook-up kinda girl.”
Chapter Five
“Then what happened?” Marisol leaned over the counter, her eyes big and round.
“I don’t really remember,” Elena answered, more than a little embarrassed by that. She felt like a moron for the way she reacted to meeting Pax. One, because sheneverlost her cool. She was a fucking rock. Nothing shook her up—normally.
Paxton Iron was a different story, something she’d realized the moment their eyes met.
“I think I blacked out for some of it,” she admitted sheepishly. The details were fuzzy but the bits she was able to recall wereno bueno. “Once he started talking to me, it’s all a blur.”
“Seriously?” her bestie asked, obviously surprised.
“I wish I were lying,” she replied with groan.
Marisol smiled big.
“What?” she asked, wary of the look on her friend’s face. Every single time Marisol had given her that smile, it was followed by shenanigans that generally got them in trouble.
“Nothing.”
Elena narrowed her eyes.
