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I was getting my pregnant wife a glass of water. I’m the one who mentioned their blizzard-of-the-year staycation.
If any of you bring this up at dinner, I will blurt out every skeleton in your closet and torture you for the rest of your lives.
Hugh
Another sweet family Sunday night dinner with the Reynolds.
Brinkley
“Ahhh… hello deflection, nice to see you again.” You’re making threats now? This is an obvious attempt to take the attention off yourself. This tells me everything I need to know. Dinner can’t come soon enough.
Fuck. My siblings weren’t going to make this easy.
“Grammie and Pops said we could bring Maxine and Bob Picklepants to dinner tonight,” Gracie said, with her little hand in mine, as we walked home from the park.
Of course, she asked them, and they said yes.
Because why not? They’d invited my ex-girlfriend to dinner, so what’s the difference if a pig and a dog join us, too?
It’ll be one big fucked-up evening.
“That’s fine.”
“And Presley’s coming. I really like her.”
“You know she’s just an old friend, right? Someone I used to know. She doesn’t live here, and she’ll be going home soon.” We stepped into the house, and I dropped the keys onto the entryway table.
“But you can still be friends with someone who doesn’t live here, Daddy. All my cousins live in Honey Mountain. We’re still a family, even if I don’t see them every day.”
“Yes. That’s true. Go get washed up and changed, and I’ll get Maxine and Bob ready to go.”
She squealed as she ran down the hallway toward her bedroom, and I rubbed my temples. My phone vibrated, and I glanced down to see a text from Presley. We’d messaged about the horse we’d brought back with us after we got home a few days ago. And then I’d texted her congratulations when Finn had sent me the article with her interview about becoming the first female partner at her firm. So we’d been texting a bit. It was not a big deal.
Friends were allowed to text.
Raven
Hey. Are you sure you’re all right with me coming to dinner tonight? I can make up an excuse and say I’m sick if you’d rather I not be there.
Yeah. Why wouldn’t I be?
Raven
Let’s just say that I know you well, and I’m guessing you’re not thrilled because you’ve got these boundaries in place, and you don’t like to cross them.
Well, I’d say sleeping with you in a bed with my dick out of control has already crossed most of the boundaries, right? We agreed to be friends. I’m good with that.
Raven
Wow. Way to bring the dirty talk to the text chain. I didn’t see that coming.
That’s what she said.
Raven
Ahhh… so he does still have a sense of humor.
We’re both going to need one tonight. Brinkley is trying to sniff out what’s going on. She just heard about the road trip, so she’s going to be nosy as hell.
