“Oh fuck that,” Andrew growled. “I’m not having any daughters. I don’t want the problems you’re going to have in fifteen or so years.” Crap, how the hell did my youngest nephew become so right? “So much for the idea of finding my mate so late in life so I don’t have to work as hard because she’ll feel the curse, too.” Andrew glared at me. “Thanks, Uncle Carl. You just ruined that.” He stormed away and Oakley and a couple of the others followed.
Duncan chuckled. “I bet they all realized now they have a girl cousin they’ll have to start to think about how they treat woman.”
“I think this is awesome.” Jade added. Stephan groaned behind her, but pulled her against him.
“Does this mean I could have a girl?” The excitement in Bailey’s voice had us all turning to her. Richard was behind her his hands resting over her belly and shaking his head.
“Hell no,” he snarled. “One Silverman female is more than enough.”
Ryder smirked. “Looks like we need you to have your baby to see if what we think is true. If it’s a girl maybe the curse is broken. If it’s a boy, we might have learnt a little about the curse and how it affect us as we get older.”
Gillian clapped her hands. “Oh this is so fantastic.” Her eyes were so bright they practicality sparkled. “I get to buy baby girl clothes.” She turned to Carol and Evelin and said two words. “Shopping. Tomorrow.” She then turned back to me. “Now hand that little Angel over to Aunt Gillian.” I didn’t even get the chance to reply. Gillian went to the crib and picked Angelica up. Jade picked Jake up and I stood back and watched my family. I was so lucky. Not only did I have an amazing family, but I had a wonderful wife and two perfect children.
Life was good.
Excerpt from Ryder - coming later this year
Chapter one
Divinity
Closing my eyes I took a deep breath in and slowly let it out as I told myself not to whack my idiot brother upside that empty damn head of his. “You couldn’t for once in your life just keep your frigging mouth shut?” I grumbled.
Arron shrank down in the emergency room hospital chair, holding the icepack over his broken nose, as I held the other icepack over what I was sure would be a broken wrist.
“I promised dad I could look after you this time. You’re seventeen years old. Dad shouldn’t have to hire a bloody nanny to keep you in check while he’s on deployment.”
“I don’t fucking need a nanny or my sister, who is only four damn years older than me, to babysit me.” His fierce dark brown eyes almost looked black as Arron glared at me.
“Ha, while right now you just shit all over that, because I, your sister, who is only four damn years older than you, had to leave my new job so I could pick my brother up from school, and take him to emergency room, because he got in a fight at school, with not one guy, but two.” Arron’s cheeks tinged with red. I sighed. Arron wasn’t one to fight people for no reason. He was a good kid and even though he used to hang out with the wrong crowd, he wasn’t one to start fights. “What did you get in a fight over anyway? We haven’t even been here for three months.”
“I hate it here. Why did we have to move again? You could have stayed in Darwin. You’re old enough to be on your own. You finished Tafe and had your apprenticeship. I would have happily stayed there with you.”
I could have stayed, but my dad needed me. Arron needed me, even though he thought he didn’t. We’d lived in Darwin the last five years. The army base was a big one and my dad went where the army told him. I’d finished high school in Darwin and had made some great friends. When dad told me he was being transferred he said I could stay and finish my apprenticeship, but I knew he needed me and there were a lot of job options for me in Brisbane. Arron hadn’t wanted to leave and had begged to stay. I knew one of the reasons why my dad jumped at the transfer was because he didn’t like my brother’s friends. So three months ago we moved to Brisbane, Queensland. I loved it here straight away. I even had friends who had moved down here to go to Uni or get jobs. There wasn’t much to do in Darwin and there were so many more options here. I had gotten a job at a hairdresser’s soon after we moved here just before Christmas.
“Arron you know why.” Arron had been pissed when dad explained one of the reasons they were moving was because he didn’t like his friends or his behavior. “Dad wouldn’t have let you stay with me in Darwin anyway. He wants you with him.”
“He’s not even around to care.”