Page 37 of Family Bonds: Coy & Angel

“There is a full bath down here by the doors so people can get to it if they are on the beach,” he said. “Gym right next door.”

She popped her head in and saw his weights and rowing machine next to the treadmill. “This is a lot nicer than the gym at my apartment. Don’t tell your father though.”

“What’s wrong with the one at the apartment?” he asked.

“It has other people in it,” she said, laughing.

“Good point. And for the main attraction,” he said. “The theater room.”

“Now this is awesome,” she said. “And you’ve got a popcorn machine down here.”

It was just a small one, but still perfect.

“You can’t watch a movie without popcorn and candy.”

“You’ve got candy down here?”

He opened a cabinet to get popcorn out to start it and she saw jars filled with candy bars and mini bags of everything imaginable.

Here she’d been worried he had nothing of junk food in his house upstairs when she was here before. It was because he had it all down here.

“I’d eat this daily if I knew it was here.”

“Which is why it’s down here behind a door where I can’t see it and usually only touch it when I watch a movie. The last time I did was when Liam was here with me.”

Now it made sense. “Some of this candy is for him?”

“Him and someday Gemma. I need to spoil them when they are here.”

“Do you sit through animations and cartoons?” she asked. Her voice might have gotten a little singsong and when he blushed she wished she could take it back.

“It’s not like they are watching action flicks with me,” he said.

“It just makes you the fun uncle,” she said.

“Someone has to be,” he said. “But I’m sure when I have kids of my own someday my brothers will return the favor when they watch mine.”

Spencer had commented about Coy wanting kids. She knew that.

“Do you want to watch an action movie?” she asked.

He picked up a remote and tossed it to her after he turned everything on. “Hit the button on the right and then you can scroll through and we can get what you want.”

She was going through and settled on a remake of an older movie. It was probably corny, but she remembered her father watching this when it came out years ago.

“Is this okay?”

“I’ve been wanting to see it,” he said. “My father used to watch the original.”

“Mine too,” she said. “It smells just like a movie theater in here.”

“That’s the point,” he said. “Get the candy you want and then we can grab our seats and I’ll hit the lights.”

There were no windows in the room. He’d shut the door when they came in.

There were six black leather recliners. Three set up higher than the three others. She went and sat on the end of the top row and he came and sat in the center of the same row next to her.

She popped up and went to the fridge and got a bottle of water and then once she walked by the candy decided to grab a Milky Way out of the jar.

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