Wrapping Up(31)

When he still didn't move she pushed him again. "Daddy, please wake up."

With another failed attempt to get her father to move, she leaned over and started kissing him all over the face. I stood there laughing the whole time, while she was really getting worried. Finally, he opened one eye. She put her hands on her knees and smiled and when she did, he opened both eyes. "There's my princess."

She smacked his arm. "You tricked me."

He pulled her into his arms and kissed her head. "One day you're going to be too old to give daddy kisses and I'm just trying to get as many as I can before that happens."

"You're silly. When will Noah be here?" Their special moment had already been forgotten.

Ty rubbed her head. "Maybe next weekend kiddo. It depends on Uncle Colt. If he has to work late they aren't going to come until that Sunday. Grandma will be here tonight though."

"Is Pop-pop John coming too?" Ever since their engagement, my mother had been encouraging Bella to call John pop- pop. They were getting married, so it just made things easier in the long run.

"Of course he is."

"Yay! He said the next time he sees me he would give me a present."

Ty pulled a bag out of the closet and walked over to the bed. "Iz, can you go see if Uncle Conner is awake?"

"He isn't awake."

I laughed a little bit wondering how she knew that. “What do you mean? How do you know?”

"Well, I went in his room first and he said to leave him alone cause last night was a rough one."

I looked to Ty, who shrugged his shoulders, then back down to Bella. "Sweetie, is that what he said?"

"Yup, and he gave me five dollars to get out of his room and not tell anybody." She obviously didn't understand that Ty and I were the people he was talking about not telling.

"Go make your bed, kiddo. Mom and I will make breakfast in a minute."

Ty scooted our daughter out of the room. He shut the door and turned to look at me. "Don't go there, Baby. You know it will get ugly and I don't feel like dealing with the drama. I love ya, but you need to save it for another time."

I sat down on the bed and shook my head. "There are some things that can't wait."

"Miranda, I am asking you to back off of your brother. He's an adult. Besides, you don't even know what's going on. If there is something between he and Amy it will come out eventually. For now, you have to believe they are only friends. Give him the benefit of the doubt."

I wanted to know what was going on between my brother and Amy. They'd been sneaking around for months, claiming they were only friends. Since they both had problems I really did try to stay out of it, but I could tell it was something more. He was playing with fire and I was sure he was going to get burned. I decided to let it go before my husband got all mad at me over it. "What's in the bag?" It was the lingerie bag and I was wondering if he expected me to start trying the things he bought on.

Ty got that look on his face, the one where he was up to no good. "Promise you will take my side?"

I was more than a little confused. "Your side? What the heck are you talkin' about?"

"What I have in this bag is what we're going to wear for the Christmas picture."

I heard what he said; it just wasn't registering in my mind. "Tell me you're jokin'?"

"Nope!" He laughed as he pulled out the red fabric items. He spread them across the bed so I could see everything he bought. The first thing I noticed was three pair of men's briefs that were red velvet. The next thing I saw were two ladies outfits. One was a two piece and the other was a one piece.

"Please tell me the one piece is for our pregnant cousin, because Ty, if you think she is going to go for this at all, there is no way in hell she will wear that two piece."

He started laughing at me. "I was going to ask her which one she preferred."

I smacked him on the ass. "You're so bad!"

He leaned down and kissed me softly, letting his lips linger over mine. "You love it." His kisses could still take my breath away, even as the baby monitor started blowing up with screams.

"The C.B.s are up!"

"Must you continue to call our children Cockblocks?"

We started walking toward the boy's room. "I can't help it. They have some kind of radar that goes off whenever we have any kind of physical contact. It’s like they have an armed guard on your tits."

"Guess they don't want to share."

He turned around and held his hand up. "Hold up! They were mine way before they came along. If anyone is sharing, it's me."

He was so dead serious that I just pushed him out of the way and walked past him. The boys were both sitting up in their beds with real tears running down their cute little cheeks. "Oh my goodness, real tears?" I picked up Jax just as Ty picked up Jake.