Page 85 of Always Yours

“Well, I didn’t think about that…” Sophie says with a blush.

“That way was funnier anyhow,” Lily says with a wink at her.

Annalise rolls a cake out. Everyone stills, but she keeps on going and ignoring the looks everyone gives her. “I know you are all worried that this one might have a bomb too, but I baked it myself. And it wasn’t right that Derek didn’t get his birthday cake. I can’t just let that happen.”

“Well, heck, you could have warned us,” Crash breathes out with a hand on his chest.

“You watched me cook it! I told you to stay away and not eat the icing! Don’t be so dramatic,” she says with a roll of her eyes.

“Well thank you. I would love some cake,” I tell her, and she smiles huge at me.

“I don’t think Mrs. Kingsley was ready to let us go,” Ella says as she walks towards the window and smiles.

“I don’t think any of them were ready,” Damien says with a laugh.

When the prospect gets the okay to let them in, Stitch opens the front door with a laugh.

“We haven’t even been gone a day,” he says to his family.

“It just feels so quiet in there now,” Susan Kingsley whines.

“I’m sure you will fill it with many little grandkids before you know it,” Lily says with a wink.

“Oh, I sure hope so! So far, one of my children doesn’t want children and only one other is dating, and Aubrey doesn’t seem to be in a hurry to give me any,” Susan says with an over dramatic sigh, causing me to laugh.

“You just have to be patient and then the grandchildren will come,” I tell her as I sit back.

Everyone looks at me with mouths open.

“What?” I say in confusion.

“Oh, come on. You are the least patient person there is when it comes to grandchildren,” Ella shouts.

“Well, have you seen how cute these little one's you guys make are? You can’t blame me for wanting more,” I shout back.

“Yeah, I make cute kids,” Steal says, puffing up his chest.

“Oh, please. Those babies are all Olivia. They got lucky,” Torch says, teasing his brother.

Everyone laughs at their antics, and I just shake my head. I’m used to them teasing each other or trying to take the other down. I’m about to shout for them to stop, but Lily puts her hand on my shoulder and points across the room.

When I look over to the other side of the room, I see Ella walking over with a big bag of flour as the other two are pretty much wrestling on the floor.

It’s only a matter of seconds before they are dumped with flour.

They freeze like they can’t believe what just happened.

“Did you just throw flour on us?” Torch asks, slowly getting up.

Ella shrugs.

“What the heck did you do that for?” Steal asks as his face is completely covered in flour.

“Well, I wanted to be a part of the sibling fun, but I knew you guys wouldn’t wrestle me to the ground unless you wanted Damien to kick your ass, so I did the next best thing,” she says.

“It’s so cute that you think VP can kick my ass,” Torch says.

Damien steps forward and raises an eyebrow at him. Torch stares at him for a few minutes, but when Damien steps another step closer, Torch retreats.

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