65
When Renee calls and asks if she can come for a surprise visit, we're all shocked. She claims that she's got another meeting with Jane and Alec, but Bella tells me she misses her grandchildren.
I request she come a little later in the day because I don't want to listen to Alice bitch and moan while Angela runs us through preparations.
I'm surprised when my oldest is calm as a cucumber. Happy to stay in her sweats for the day, she and Alice decide to bake cookies while they wait.
Bella and I are dismantling the dining room table because Renee loves poker as much as Angela does. Alice is planning on participating as long as she doesn't have to put any of her actual money into the pot. Renee will be picking up the quarters when she gets into town.
I'm leaning over, grabbing a screw I dropped, when Bella's cool hand caresses my back chastely, making me shiver.
The girls are preoccupied with measurements and the proper way to crack an egg one handed, so I pull my vampire out of view of the kitchen.
"We shouldn't," she whispers, stepping up on her tiptoes and lightly pressing her lips to mine. "The girls."
We're planning on sitting them down tonight and letting them know everything because we want to do it with everyone present. Jasper is just getting back from a solo hunt because his coven still follows the traditional diet and its coyote hunting season up north because of overpopulation. Ben's been pulling shifts at Stanley's while he waits for his background check to be completed at V.C.
"The girls," Bella whispers when I grip her ass, pulling her closer.
"Are busy and won't even notice if we disappear for five minutes."
Her face is a perfect mask of innocence—wide eyes and that adorable pout that I love kissing. "Only five minutes?"
I laugh against her pout. "Okay, maybe ten if we push it."
I swallow her soft laugh, and she hitches a leg over my hip, humming in appreciation when I grind against her in just the right place.
You'd think one of us would notice that we have an audience, especially given the fact that one of us is a vampire with super hearing.
Bella licks my bottom lip—
"Oh. My. God."
Bella and I break apart with a smack and find both girls standing in the doorway, staring at us. Angela is smiling so wide her face looks like it might split in half, and Alice's eyes are as wide as saucers.
"Dude! You are so full of shit, Dad."
"Mary Alice," Bella and I bellow.
"What? If you ever saw me dry humping Jasper like that, you'd kill me or ground me for life. Yet, here you are, mauling Bella—or maybe Bella was mauling you. I don't know." She shudders. "That was disgusting to witness. I don't know about Ang, but I am certainly traumatized. The horror. The therapy bills."
Bella laughs and gives me a wide berth as she walks toward them. "Now you know how your dad feels every time he sees you and Jasper together." She tweaks Alice's nose. "You need to remember that we're both adults. We get certain advantages as we age."
Alice starts gagging. "Are you talking about having sex with my dad? Ew. Ew. Just. Ew!"
"Dude, you are so ridiculous." Angela rolls her eyes, but her smile is infectious. "I thought you said we weren't getting a new mommy?"