“They’re that good?” Kate asked.
“Oh yes,” Sara answered.
“Interesting,” Kate said. “I can’t wait to see them.”
When Jack said the boys were human beings, not things to be ogled, the women laughed.
The boys arrived that night and Kate had to agree that they were beautiful. Identical twins with all the Wyatt dark good looks.
Kate had seen a video of Jack as a child and she’d said he looked like an angel. Of course she’d added, “What happened to you?”
The boys were young enough that they still had that angelic aura—and they knew it. They were courteous, helpful, smart, and all-around adorable.
“It’s an act,” Jack said, sounding like he was jealous of the attention the women were giving the boys.
Kate called the principal and arranged for the boys to spend the next day at the high school. The story was that their family might be moving to Lachlan and they wanted to see how the twins fit in.
“I don’t know,” the principal said. “This is awfully short notice.”
“They play football.”
“And basketball,” Jack said and Kate repeated it.
“Okay,” the principal said. “I’ll get the coach to show them around and—”
“We know Ashley, Britney and Madison so maybe they could escort the boys.”
“That’s highly unusual but—”
“They als
o run track,” Jack said into Kate’s phone.
“Sure,” the principal said. “Bring them at nine.”
Since Jack hadn’t moved out of Kate’s suite, the boys stayed in his room.
The next morning, he took the twins to the high school. He walked through the halls ahead of them—and it was a Red Sea parting. The boys weren’t just beautiful but were also tall and athletic. And they had the air of being descended from Olympus.
The students stopped talking and flattened themselves against their lockers, gaping in openmouthed astonishment.
As for the boys, they smiled modestly, as though they had no idea what was happening.
“Knock it off,” Jack murmured.
“Jealous, old man?” Max smiled at a dumpy girl who had probably never before been noticed by a boy. He picked up the book she’d dropped and handed it to her.
Mike winked at another girl who looked like she was about to faint.
“This doesn’t last long,” Jack said under his breath.
“You mean that someday we’ll be old and alone like you are, cousin?”
“And we won’t be able to get a hottie like Kate?”
“We saw the bed in Kate’s living room. So you’ve spent nights near her but nothing happened? Are you that old?”
“Would you like me to show you how old I am? A few kicks to the side of your head should do it.”