“Grace!” I gasped.
Noah laughed and slapped Jase on the back. “So, do you like football?”
They walked off toward the kitchen as Grace pushed me with her shoulder. “Damn that boy is good looking, Taylor. And the whole cowboy hat thing. Meow.”
Pressing my lips together to contain my smile, I nodded and said, “I know.”
“Those blue eyes. Dreamy.”
Glancing over to her, I scowled. “I can’t believe you said that!”
Grace smiled and winked. “Yes you can.”
Rolling my eyes, I let out a quick chuckle. “You’re right. I can believe it. Don’t scare him off, Grace.”
Her mouth fell open. “Like I could scare that boy off? If meeting all of us and spending the day with this crazy-ass family isn’t enough to scare him off, I seriously doubt anything I say would.”
I stared at her in disbelief. “Don’t underestimate your power with words, Grace. You have a gift.”
With an evil laugh, she handed me Hope. “Go see your Aunt Taylor and slobber all over her.”
Hope smiled as I took her in my arms. “She’s getting so big.”
With an adoring smile, Grace traced her fingertip along Hope’s jaw. “I know. I can’t wait for another one.”
My head snapped up to meet her eyes. “What? Are y’all trying?”
Grace never blushed, but when her cheeks turned red I couldn’t help but feel such excitement for her. “I know it’s soon, but we decided one more and we wanted them to be close together. We haven’t told anyone yet I’m pregnant.”
“Oh Grace, I’m so happy for you both.”
Her eyes danced with happiness as she gazed back down at Hope. “Thanks. So things will be crazy at the shop with both me and Alex pregnant.”
Sucking in a breath, I whispered, “Alex is pregnant too?”
Graze froze. “Oh shit.”
My eyes quickly dashed around until I found Alex. How did I not notice? Look at her face glowing. “Holy crap. You, Alex, and La . . . um . . . you and Alex! Wow!”
“Oh no. No way, Taylor Atwood. You were about to say . . .” Grace did a once over and turned back to me. “Lauren. You were about to say Lauren!” She started jumping up and down as she covered her mouth.
“Don’t you dare say a word, Grace. They don’t want to tell anyone yet. They were going to tell everyone today I think.”
“Our little Lauren is pregnant!”
With a giant grin, I nodded. “Yep.”
“Now we just need you to pop one out and we’ll all have kids.”
My smile quickly fa
ded as I looked back at Hope.
“Oh hell. Taylor please tell me you’re not.”
Swallowing hard, I looked at Grace as tears filled my eyes. “I really hope not. I’m not ready.”
“Oh, sweets.” Pulling me into her arms, Grace held me while I held onto her daughter and fought to keep my tears in.