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The boys began talking, and Cynthia leaned over to whisper in my ear. “I think they’re going to decide Damon should have it. I know he and Jae have already been talking about how there might be a day when Jetta, or Jae’s parents and Jetta, have to move in with them. Having a place this size would help Mr. and Mrs. Knox feel less like they were intruding or being a burden.”
I’d married a smart woman.
“We don’t want to step on any toes,” Davin said loudly. “But since everyone’s making announcements, Linsey and I have one too.”
He looked at her, and everyone else did too. Most were looking at her left hand, wondering just how many weddings next year would have.
“I’m pregnant.”
Her words silenced the room faster than anything else could have. Then, a moment later, sound exploded. Davin’s smile stretched from ear to ear as his brothers hugged him, and Linsey flushed when Walter came over to congratulate her.
A great-grandchild. A second one, since Dallas was already firmly planted in my heart as the first, but we’d get to be with this one from the very beginning, and I looked forward to that.
It looked like next year was going to be just as exciting and memorable as this one.