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kindergarten teacher. “Okay, I’ll talk to Daddy.”
    “Thank you, Mommy.”
    “You’re welcome. You hungry?”
    “Nope, thank you. Papa let me have a burger.”
    Of course he did. Dads, useless when it came to kids and McDonald’s. “You want to do some reading?”
    “Please.”
    “Come on, then.” Gia carried her into the family room, with its huge sofa and extra-large armchairs for Luke and Josh, then put Lexi down on the couch. Lexi immediately snuggled into the corner and reached for the book she’d set on the side table last night. This was her space, and the cushions were imprinted with her small form. Gia pressed a kiss to Lexi's forehead. “Are you going to be okay in here while I talk to your daddies?”
    Lexi frowned, her fingers already seeking the page she’d read up to last night. “’Course.”
    Hiding a smile, Gia retreated to the kitchen to peer out of the window once more. Josh had been on his knee for a hell of a long time. She’d hoped to return to the sight of the two kissing and embracing. Hell, that was the only reason she’d carried Lexi to the family room. Instead, Josh looked as serious as ever, and from the tension in Luke’s shoulders and the back of his neck, she felt sure a war was going on out there.
    Sighing, she called out, “Baby, I’ll be out in the yard if you need me.”
    “Sure, Mommy,” came the return holler. Lexi was a bookworm. Nothing save an earthquake, or maybe a need to pee, would budge her off the sofa when Lexi was halfway through the second book in a series.
    Enid Blyton’s The Secret Seven was her current crack of choice.
    Bypassing the utility door, Gia headed to the patio and walked out onto the grass.
    The house belonged to Luke and Josh, but when Lexi was born and they admitted to one another how important they all were to the household—strange how formal that sounded now, but those were the words they’d used once upon a time—the guys had signed over a portion of the property to her.
    She knew that she and Lexi were well provided for in case anything ever happened overseas, and while she was wealthier than she’d imagined as a child, living in a house that would always have been outside her price bracket, she found it didn’t matter.
    The guys made this place a home.
    Otherwise, it was only bricks and mortar.
    She’d grown up in the roughest part of Austin. An area so rough, even the pimps didn’t like to set their girls on those particular streets. From a housing-project apartment to a ranch house on a large plot of land, space as far as the eye could see, beautiful furniture, a lovely kitchen… She’d won the lottery in many ways.
    As a kid, she’d have drooled over it all. Would have coveted every luxury.
    But now, her luxury was having not one but two guys in her bed. More importantly, in her heart.
    Her luxury was making a family with them both.
    Strange how priorities changed when something unorthodox happened, wasn’t it?
    Heading straight for them, Gia would have loved to have walked through the grass barefoot, but last year, she’d been bitten by a spider and had learned a sorry lesson. Instead, she sniffed up the scent of freshly mowed lawn—she’d just finished it this afternoon when Josh had come home early and surprised her—and walked toward her men.
    “What’s this about?”
    Josh’s words made it over to her, traveling on the wind to reach her ears.
    Luke hunched over, resting his elbows on his knees. She increased her pace, wanting to know what was going on with him and hurting because he couldn’t share it with her. Luke wasn’t usually closemouthed, and of late he’d been incredibly secretive.
    “My dad.”
    Josh frowned. “Your dad?”
    Luke nodded. “When I got my orders, I spoke to him about them. I-I asked him to put Lexi in his will. She’s as much my daughter as yours, but he won’t. Says she’s nothing to do with him and that he’d prefer any inheritance that would have gone to me go to his