Before she could make a witty comment, there was a knock at the door. Glancing up, she wondered who it was. Looking at the clock, she noticed it was almost midnight. Rolling off the couch, she headed for the window where she saw Lucas’ truck in the driveway.

“Eek!”

Running to the door, she threw it open to her beautiful sister and her husband. “Y’all are home early!” she said wrapping her arms around the two.

“We caught an early flight home,” Fallon said against Audrey’s cheek, “we missed y’all too much.”

Audrey pulled back, grinning at two of her favorite people. They were tanner than they had been, and both looked blissfully happy, especially Fallon. She looked as if she had been loved to the ends of the earth and back.

Lucky bitch.

Jealous, Audrey said, “Did y’all have fun?”

“Too much! It was a blast, you have to go to Goa, it’s beautiful!” Fallon gushed as they came inside. “Audrey, oh my God, let me tell you, it was insane. No one was there but us and Alex, our chef. It was magical.”

Fallon looked up at Lucas with a dreamy look that made Audrey want to puke.

In a good way, of course.

“It was,” Lucas agreed, leaning over to kiss Fallon softly. “Now where is my little guy?”

Audrey smiled, “Upstairs, in the closet that you have not finished.”

Lucas smiled sheepishly, “I’ll get it done.”

“When? You have hockey to play.”

“I’ll get to it. I have help I am going to call on,” he said with a grin.

Knowing that the help was Tate made butterflies flutter in Audrey’s belly. She could just imagine him, shirtless, sweat dripping down his hot, rock hard body.

Sheesh, I’m a total horndog. Guy Break? Was I an idiot?

Ignoring her weird horny thoughts, Audrey watched as Lucas ran upstairs to get Aiden. Turning her attention to her glowing sister, she asked, “So did y’all do it everywhere?”

Fallon scoffed, her face flushing, “Every damn surface imaginable!”

That had the sisters in a fit of laughter. “Oh, Audrey, it was fantastic. I feel so rejuvenated, so ready to get back to work, be a mommy, and watch some hockey. Gosh, I just love my life.”

“At least one of us does, I’m happy for you, Fal,” Audrey said sincerely.

“Uh oh, trouble in Audrey’s land?” Fallon asked with a concerned look on her face.

“Nothing that can’t be discussed when you come down from your sex filled week. I refuse to ruin that for you. So don’t think of me at all.”

“Okay,” Fallon scoffed as she made a ‘come on’ kind of look, “if you didn’t want me to worry about it, you shouldn’t have made the comment.”

Thankfully, Lucas and Aiden came down stairs. Aiden was grinning ear to ear, his arms held out for Fallon. She took Aiden into her arms, hugging him tightly while kissing all over his face. Watching Fallon be a mom was probably one of the greatest gifts ever. Just as she had taken care of Audrey growing up, she cared for Aiden exceptionally. Audrey had noticed such a difference in Fallon since Lucas came along. She was much happier and smiled a lot more. Fallon being happy should have made Audrey happy and it did for the most part, but there was still that part of Audrey that was beyond jealous.

“Ready to go home, bud?” Lucas asked. He then wrapped his arms around his little family, and tears sprang to Audrey eyes.

They were leaving and Audrey would be all alone.

Why was she always so emotional!?

“Did you get a new couch?” Fallon asked.

Shit! Audrey had forgotten that Fallon would notice something like that.

“Yup! Those hippogriffs I left, they poop everywhere! Me and Will cleaned up what AA missed after she bought the new couch.”

“What?” Lucas asked, confused.

“Who is Will?” Fallon asked.

Audrey laughed, “I’ll explain everything later. Y’all are tired, go home.”

“Okay,” Lucas said with a shake of his head before kissing Audrey’s cheek and heading for the door.

“Say bye to AA and thank her for keeping your stinky butt,” Fallon giggled. Aiden held out his arms and Audrey took him quickly, kissing his cheeks loudly.

“Thank you for keeping me,” Aiden said against her cheek.

“Anytime, Punkin, you know that.”

“Yup! I love you!”

Audrey smiled, “I love you ‘cause you are honestly my favorite of all time in the history of ever, kiddo.”

Aiden grinned widely before kissing her loud on the lips.

Then they were gone.

After shutting the door, Audrey fell onto her couch, digging her face into the pillow before taking in a deep breath.

She then cried herself to sleep.

Chapter 10

“That’s all you got?”

Lucas glared before shooting the puck, hard towards the net. Tate hit it using his glove hand with ease before giving his friend a taunting grin. Puck after puck, Tate brushed off with the skill that had been drilled into him since he was four. He would never forget the day his dad dressed him in too-big goalie gear and threw him in the net. His father and four of his father’s friends, all took turns, shooting pucks, hard, at Tate. He missed every single one.

But that wasn’t the case anymore.

He was pretty sure after years of practice and camps that he could take on the five grown men. Tate was now the highest ranked goalie in the US. It was a proud accomplishment. He only wished his dad was there to see it. He would have been so proud. His mother and sister would also have been exceedingly excited for him.