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the four boys you have, and Lisa is actually planning to throw a party when Bobby starts first grade in the fall. Are you sure?”
    Mike nodded and tossed Joe the key to Danny’s ATV. “She said it straight out. Said it might be a girl this time.”
    “Or it could be a boy. And it ain’t like twins are unheard of in the Kowalski family. Think about it, Mike. Six boys. We’d have to hire people to drive all your campers and machines here.”
    Mike laughed, but Joe could see the tension in him. Though two years younger, he often seemed like the oldest now, and Joe wasn’t the only one to notice it lately.
    “You know what you need? Let’s get these suckers unloaded and go for a brothers-only ride.”
    “The boys will have a fit,” Mike said, but his face lit up just thinking about it.
    The Kowalskis rode their ATVs at a wide variety of speeds. When the little kids were on their own machines and Grammy was along, half-dead pack mules made better time. When the two youngest boys rode with their parents and Grammy was napping, the entire crew could be a little more adventurous. Sometimes all the children were left with Leo and Mary, allowing Joe, Kevin, Terry—and last year her husband, Evan—Mike, and Lisa to go bombing through the trail system.
    But the brothers-only rides, those were special, with a high pucker factor. Just Joe, Mike and Kevin—testosterone, mud, rocks and a combined twenty-one hundred cc’s of four-wheel-drive power. It was almost as good as sex, although the attrition rate was generally higher.
    Mike cast a glance at his wife, scoping out her mood. “Lisa’d be pissed if the boys are underfoot while she’s trying to get everything set up. Remember ’04 when she made me sleep in the screenhouse?”
    Joe called out his sister-in-law’s name and beckoned her over. “We feel a need for speed.”
    Lisa was a short, fragile-looking brunette with a tall, not-so-fragile attitude. “You are not going riding with all this work left to do.”
    Joe flashed his winningest grin, but she’d been a Kowalski wife for sixteen years and was raising four of her own. She’d built up an immunity. “Forget it.”
    “Keri and I will take the boys into town for pizza in a few days.” She wasn’t immune to bribes involving freedom. “You and Mike can sneak off and ride up to that hidden grassy spot you guys like so much. It puts color in your cheeks.”
    As always, the promise of sex free of juvenile interruption made her cave like a wet napkin. “One hour. And you guys pull lifeguard duty for the first trip to the pool.”
    “Three hours, two lifeguard duties, and we’ll keep the boys out for ice cream, too.”
    “Two hours, all of the above, plus s’mores duty tonight.”
    “Done.”
    After Lisa walked away, Joe grinned at his brother. “Piece of cake.”
    “Never works for me.”
    “That’s because you’re her husband. She likes me better because she doesn’t have to wash my underwear. Plus I’m better lookin’.”
    Mike laughed. “You keep telling yourself that while I’m getting laid out in the woods, my friend.”
    “You just like it out there because the mosquito bites make your dick look bigger.”
    Joe ducked Mike’s swing and launched Danny’s machine down the ramp. Keri was watching him, and he thumbed the throttle a little, making the engine rev. She tossed her hair back when she laughed, just like she had in high school, and Joe pondered his chances of a little trip to the grass clearing of his own.
    Thoughts of Keri, a bed of grass, and a bottle of Deep Woods OFF! lotion got all jumbled in his head until he had to douse himself with a mental cold shower. Heading out for a brothers-only ride with a hard-on that wouldn’t quit was a recipe for masculine disaster.





Chapter Three
    Keri wasn’t sure how just yet, but Joe was going to pay for abandoning her. While he and his brothers went off on their brothers-only ride—whatever the hell that meant—she was left to fend