CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER
EIGHTEEN
Lana bit her lower lip. She couldn’t understand where the sudden possessive jealousy was coming from.
Despite their issues, she’d always wanted the kids to have a relationship with Jayson and his family. Now, she was afraid of being replaced and the kids not wanting or needing her anymore.
“Hey, hey…look at me, baby.”
Lana looked up at Jayson, her eyes slightly blurry. Shit, she was crying. What the fuck was wrong with her?
Lana plastered a smile on her face as she looked at Jayson. When she saw the worry in his eyes, she knew she failed at looking okay.
“I’m okay. I promise,” she lied, plastering a fake smile on her lips.
“No, you’re not. Look at me.” When she finally looked at him again, his hands cupped the side of her face.
“Those kids love you. You are their world, baby. We could never replace you or take your place. Our kids cherish the ground you walk on. Dad said the whole time they were picking out stuff for their room, they asked about helping you decorate a room for you when came with them for their visits.”
Lana couldn’t stop the tears that started streaming down her face. She didn’t fight Jayson when he pulled her into his arms and held her.
“Thank you. Not sure why that bothered me as much as it did. I’ve wanted them to have you and your family in their lives, not sure why it’s hurting like it is.”
“Because you’re afraid of not being needed and you still want to be wanted by the hot dipshit whose arms you’re currently in,” Sunny called her out in front of the small group.
“Bitch!” Lana fired back, no venom in the words.
“Ho!” Sunny smirked over at Lana as she gave her a wink.
“Just so the hot dipshit knows, this bitch and her kids move here, she’s got a whole ass crew moving here with her and them babies. You won’t be just getting her and the twins, boys. You get the whole ass crew with them,” Rocky warned the two Kenwood men standing with them.
“Are you all single? Well, minus Lana I mean,” Ryan asked, a grin on his face.
“That question better be because you’re trying to set one of your colleagues up, mister.”
The whole group turned to see a perturbed Jayme standing in the doorway. The question had Lana curious now too.
“Babe, you know Mom and Dad’s new mission in life is to get Bryan to move back home.
If there are fresh new single chicks here for him to flirt with, then maybe he’ll come home and then my parents will stay off our ass about more grandchildren.
You know you’re the only woman for me. Just like Lana is the only woman for Jayson. ”
“True. Now he can stop being a man whore.”
“Jayme…”
“Oh, stop it, Ryan. He goes to bars, gets drunk, fucks some rando for two seconds, then takes a cab home. It’s the only way he can sleep without nightmares.
You know it, I know it, Peter knows it, and your parents know it.
Hell, after the blackout incident that made his life hell he stopped going out anywhere unless he needed to be blacked out drunk. ”
Lana looked to see an embarrassed Jayson, who was fighting his emotions at his sister-in-law’s words. She stepped into his space and moved to where she was in his line of sight.
“Focus on me, Jayson,” Lana murmured softly.
When Jayson finally looked her in the eyes, she winked at him to let him know she wasn’t upset with him. She reached out and took his hand and placed it on her chest, over her heart.
“You with me?” she asked, holding his stare.
When he nodded slightly, she moved closer to him, cupping the side of his face. Holding his gaze, she leaned into him and kissed him softly.
“Ew. Mommy kissed Daddy! Boy germs are yucky!” Dani announced as she came into the living room from outside.
“Smart girl. You keeping thinking like that and Daddy will be a very happy man,” Jayson praised his daughter, letting loose the breath he’d been holding.
“I’m not yucky!” Jay protested, his littles hands on his hips glaring at his sister.
“Duh! Of course not stoopid. You’re my brother. You have the same coochie as I do.”
“Cooties!” Rocky, Sunny, and Lana said at the same time, making the other adults laugh.
“That’s what I said, Mommy.” Dani pouted, her hands going to her little hips.
“I know, baby girl.” Lana had to bite the inside of her cheek to keep from laughing at her daughter’s pout.
“She definitely takes after you, hellcat. Although with you, I can easily handle your pout with my cock,” Jayson whispered in her ear before he nipped it.
“Behave,” Lana whispered back, her body shivering. “Um, Mr. and Mrs. Kenwood, Jayson said something about the kids staying with you to get them acclimated for a couple of days. As long as they are good with it, then I am too.”
“You’re coming too, right Mommy?” Dani asked, running over to her.
Lana got down on one knee so that she was eye level with her daughter. Now she was feeling silly about her fears of her kids not needing her anymore.
Especially when Jay came running over and threw his arms around her neck. She was fighting tears again.
“We promise to be good, Mommy. You’re not leaving us are you?” Jay asked, his little voice cracking.
“Hey, hey! Where on earth would get an idea like that?” Lana asked, looking at her twins in confusion.
“Toby Miller,” they answered in union, their lower lips trembling.
“Toby Miller?” she repeated in confusion along with Jayson.
“Yeah. He was a bad kid, so his new daddy didn’t want him around anymore, so his mommy made him go live with his grandma and grandpa and didn’t love him no more.”
“Oh, baby!” Lana’s heart broke into pieces.
“I am never sending you guys away like that. Your grandparents just want to spend a couple of days with you. Mommy is going to be right here, working with your aunties and your daddy. I will come see you both every day and you can call me at any time, day or night.”
“But what will you do when you’re not working or with us?” Dani asked, playing with Lana’s hair.
“Your daddy,” Sunny mumbled through a cough.
Lana glared at Sunny in reprimand. “Helping your daddy get your rooms ready for you to sleep in so that you can be home with both of us.”
“Okay, Mommy. As long as you promise you’re not leaving us and running away with a new daddy.”
“Never baby girl. Pinky promise,” Lana promised, holding up her pinkies for both the twins to twine theirs to hers.