Fucking sneak, I knew she was playing my ass; she's lucky I didn't push her off my lap."Uh, babydoll.""Yeah?" She had that soft sulking voice down. Too bad I'd caught her in her shit; the guys were right damn but these women were sneaky. "Look straight ahead." She picked her head up and looked right into the mirrored door of the microwave."Caught the grin babe.""Well shit." "Uh-huh I'll deal with your sneaky ass later for trying to pull one over on your husband, right now I got shit to do.""What do you have to do?"I lifted her off my lap; damn that dog was heavy. "None of your business nosy, and I'm turning my phone off so you can't call out the damn national guard.""You can't turn off your phone, what if I have an emergency?" "Stay your ass in the house you'll be fine.""Talon...""Later." She made a running leap and landed on my back but I kept going. "Talon cut it out where the hell are you going?""Will you believe

After wrestling babydoll down on the bed and giving her 'the works', which put her to sleep, I had shit to do. Leaving her in bed with the door closed I took Sasha into the study with me while I made some calls. I had no doubt that Lainey person would make good on her threat, which meant we'd have to tell her parents soon. We'd been holding off until we knew more about the contract but with everything nonna had said earlier there was no more reason to wait. I'll let Skylar do the honors. At least with nonna interfering that'll save me a trip to the boondocks. Now all I had to do was wait for the results of the little tableau I'd just put into play. I rubbed my hands together as I lined things up in my head. I'd had a pyramid in my head of who was first to be toppled. I needed to get these freaks dealt with before Xmas. My baby's first Xmas as an Avery has to be kick-ass. Can't have that if we're busy dealing with bullshit. Nonna had a head start on the situat

The stupid dog keeps growing and she kept glaring at me with every pound he gained. Tough, she wasn't allowed outside without me, or the mutt. I wasn't sure how long that shit would last though knowing her penchant for disobeying me. But for now, I could rest easy knowing he was on the job when I had to be elsewhere. She was finally all better from the mold scare and the doc said there were no lingering side effects so I was no longer scared shitless every time she breathed wrong. I still watched her like a hawk though because that shit had scared the shit outta me. I never knew allergies could have such a lasting effect; it was months before she was given the all clear. My only problem now is that this was my last year and she still had a couple to go. I'd already worked out in my mind that we'd stay here so she could finish. Home wasn't going anywhere and another year or two wasn't gonna make that much of a difference with the Avery men holding down the fort.

*** Even more months later *** "Talon he's the doctor he has to look there." "Fuck naw babygirl nope. I'll deliver my kid myself before I let that happen. Where's the female I hired? How the hell can she be gone when you need her?" "I can't deal with your brand of crazy right now okay. This baby wants out now...nonna, help.""Talon, son...""Hell no nonna, you bring him back in here I'm knocking his ass out." "Son, he's a professional it's not like he's going to be asking her out to dinner and dancing after the birth." What can't these people understand? I'm in a private birthing room waiting for my son to be born. The doctor I hand picked after the asshole she was going to before put himself on my shit list had some kind of fucking emergency so she wouldn't be attending the birth. What the fuck kinda doctor had emergencies? The fuck! In comes this swinging dick who looked like he was younger than me and shit, all smar