hire a nanny for his security, she immediately
offered the position to Ashlen. Ash immediately said yes and then
moved into their new house in the garage apartment later that week;
she had been with them since Jaks was three and had become an
instant part of the group.
“It’s too bad you can’t join us,” said
Drake.
She shrugged. “It's okay, not really my
thing. I am going to get the kids in bed then curl up with a
book.”
“What are you reading?” I asked. She and I
read a lot of the same books.
“The Edge of
Never— I know it’s going to end up making me
cry, but it’s been amazing so far.”
“I’ve been wanting to read that, haven’t had
time to yet.”
Drake was looking at us like we were crazy;
men they just didn’t get it.
“You going to hand her over?” Ash asked.
“Do I have to?”
“She’ll be fine, Mags. Go out enjoy yourself,
because when we get back home you won’t get many breaks.”
“I know you're right, but it’s hard.”
“We’ll be fine, I will call you if there is
any reason, but there won’t be. We are all going to curl up on the
couch and watch a movie, then go to bed, right, Quinn?”
I nodded and kissed my daughter on her fuzzy
little hair. “Night baby” and I handed her over to Ash for the
night and tried not to cry.
I looked over to where her stuff was only to
find it gone. “Uhm, where’s her stuff?”
“I already brought it over.” said Drake.
I nodded. “Thanks,” still fighting tears.
“See you later, Mags,” said Ash walking out
the door with Quinn.
I took a deep breath and wiped away the stray
tear I couldn’t hold back. Drake walked over and gave me a hug.
“She’ll be fine, baby,” he whispered in my
hair.
“I know, I’ve just never left her for any
real time.”
“I know, but you could use some fun, and she
will be fine.”
I nodded. “Okay, let me go finish getting
ready, we will be leaving soon.”
Drake let me go and I didn’t like that, it
felt like he took something more than his body heat from me.
Drake
I sighed and watched Mags leave the room, I
knew she would be okay; Devi had a rough time leaving both her kids
the first time. We needed to talk, without yelling, soon, but it
would have to wait since Devi decided we needed to celebrate my
becoming the manager of the band. She was more excited about this
than I was.
A few minutes later she came back up, her
eyes were a little red and I knew she had been crying but I also
knew she wouldn’t let me comfort her. Mags and Devi were both too
damn independent for their own good at times.
We walked into the lobby to meet with
everyone else and the first thing I saw was Seth with his tongue
shoved down Devi’s throat—I groaned, a brother really doesn’t want
to see that shit. I cleared my throat but they ignored me, as
usual, as far as I was concerned both my niece and nephew were
conceived by Immaculate Conception, no matter how often those two
tried to prove differently with their PDA.
“So Devi said something about celebrating,
what are we celebrating?” asked Mags also watching the debacle in
front of us.
I cleared my throat louder and threw in a
cough as well hoping to get them to stop before they put on more of
a show. Mags laughed at my once again failed attempt.
X walked up beside us. “Think it will turn
into real life porn this time?” he asked.
I sighed, I was becoming more and more
fearful that one day it would in fact become just that.
“Damn, I don’t want to see that shit,” said
Eli after he came out of the elevator.
“Still claiming Immaculate Conception,
Drake?” asked X.
Both Eli and I nodded our heads and answered
yes.
“So where is Cin?” asked X.
“Not here,” replied Eli rather curtly.
I looked over at my cousin and smirked; I
knew that Eli had tried to forbid Cin from being around X, though I
knew it was a wasted attempt. Not that X and Cin had much going on,
from what I had heard they used each other when they were
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