Page 55 of Finding Hope

“Right, but she’s more than my sister. She raised me after my dad died.”

“When did he die?”

“When I was fifteen.”

“Where’s your mom?”

“She died when I was a toddler.”

“I’m sorry to hear that.”

He shrugs carelessly. “It’s cool. So there’s Kit. Kit married Bobby.”

“Okay.”

“Bobby’s brothers are Jim and Aiden.”

“Okay.”

“Jim married Iz. Aiden married Tina.”

I smile. “Okay.”

“Jon grew up with them all, so we call him our brother, though he’s not blood related.”

“Alright.”

“Jon married Tink.”

I smile. “Tink?”

“Tink is the tiny chick you assumed was my wife that time. She’s an asshole, so she never corrected you. Then she spent the next month calling me her husband and shouting at me for being a prick. Her real name is Casey, but she’s our very own Tinkerbell.”

“Alright.”

“Is that everyone?” he asks. “I legitimately don’t even know. There’s so many people in this house every day, I honestly don’t know who’s who anymore.”

“I don’t know!” I laugh. “This is your story.”

“Yeah, I think that’s it. Oh, and Izzy, Jimmy’s wife, is Jon’sactualsister. She’s kinda Jim’s sister wife.”

I laugh a full belly laugh. “I think you’re confused about the true definition of a sister wife.”

He shrugs. “Whatever. So I think that’s everyone. Then there’s the next gen, but most of them go by their regular names. But Bean is Lucy, Jim and Izzy’s firstborn. Though she’s not actually Jim’s biological daughter.”

“She’s not?”

“Nah, but he was there before she was even born. He was there at the hospitalwhenshe was born. She knows her history, it’s no secret, but Jim is her daddy in every way that counts. And Smalls is Aiden and Tina’s firstborn. Oh, and Aiden is Biggie.”

I have a crush on Jack’s big brother. “Biggie and Smalls? That’s adorable.”

“She called him Biggie when she was a toddler. It stuck.”

“Then there’s you.”

He smiles wolfishly. “Then there’s me.”

“And Annie.”

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