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“Considering he was the last person you dated, it makes sense. On my end, the bar was set pretty low so I should be good.”
She burst out laughing and almost missed her parents’ house. “Oh my God. There is that side benefit too. They’re on the left. The brick house.”
He pulled into her parents’ driveway. Jax’s SUV was already there and she wasn’t surprised. He’d made sure he got out of work early for this.
“Relax,” he said. “I’m not nervous. You shouldn’t be either. It’s going to be fine.”
She knew it would be. Trent wouldn’t go in all cocky like Jeff had been, she was positive.
But they were just young kids back then. Jeff had sweet-talked her parents the same as he had her.
When she found out she was pregnant, he’d said all the right things. He wanted to marry her. He was going to support her and raise Eli. They’d do it together.
He talked about his parents' strong marriage when so many other people were divorced. She’d bought it too.
She wouldn’t lie and did wish she could have given Eli the same thing as her parents did for her. Maybe even what Jeff’s parents had done too.
But then she learned his parents weren’t all that happy. Or they didn’t seem it. And they raised their kids by paying for everything. Spoiling them and buying their love.
As Jeff was trying to do with Eli now.
She opened the front door. Her parents’ living room was to the right and she could see them past the small foyer.
“Hi, everyone. This is Trent Davenport. Trent, my father, Troy, my mother, Ellen, and my brother, Jax.”
They all came forward to shake hands with Trent.
“You’re taller than I thought you’d be,” her mother said.
Roni frowned. She had no idea where that was coming from. “I never said one way or another,” she said.
“No,” Jax said. “But normally you gravitate toward...”
“Men with less of a presence,” she said, finishing that statement. “I guess I never thought much of it.”
“Jeff is only about five foot eight,” her father said. Her father was just under six feet. Jax exactly six feet. They were right. She normally was drawn to men not as big as Trent.
“I’m the runt of the family,” he said, smiling.
“Really?” her mother asked.
“My brother Jonah is six foot four and huge. He owns a gym and is a personal trainer.”
She’d told her mother a bit about Trent’s family. Her mother had asked a lot of questions.
“And your sister works for Fierce Engineering,” her mother said. “Roni did tell us that.”
Trent looked at her and grinned. “Yes,” he said.
“I told my parents about what the Fierces do,” she said. “Or I told my mother and she probably told everyone else in this room. No secrets.”
Her mother had thought she was joking until she explained it all.
Jax thought it crazy and wanted to know if she felt like she was some pawn in a game.
She’d told him no. That she didn’t even know about it until Trent told her and though she wasn’t happy to find out about it, after she thought of it more, it made her feel good to know they thought so much of her to consider her a match for someone that was like family to them.
She didn’t tell Jax the last part though. Her brother would lecture her again about not thinking highly enough of herself.
