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Queenie pointed at the door. “We’re going to go find Uncle Aloha and get you all outside to run off some of that energy. Get your shoes. Let’s go.”

Kian shook his head at her. “It’s okay. We’ve got them. You stay and finish your drinks and girl time.”

Queenie pressed a finger to his lips, silencing him. “Shush, child. I want photos with all my grandbabies in their smart clothes before the sun sets.” She glanced over at me and winked. “And I think maybe your woman has wants of her own right now.” She chuckled. “At least you can’t knock her up again.”

I rolled my eyes, heat flushing my cheeks. “I’m fine.”

Everyone stared at me.

I frowned. “What? I am!”

Bliss sniggered and whispered at me, “The way you’ve been practically panting since they walked in the room says otherwise.”

I squeezed my thighs together, enjoying the tingle between them.

God, they did look really freaking good.

I slid off the stool. “I’m going to get some air. It’s really warm in here.”

Queenie and the kids filed out in search of her man and the photographer. Despite never having any children of her own, or maybe because of it, Queenie was unofficial grandma to all of our children, and nobody took care of them better than she did. She’d proven, not all that long ago when a fire had ripped through the Slayers MC compound, she would literally lay her life down for them if it came to that.

I never worried for a second whenever they were in Queenie’s care, which was often, and just the way she liked it. If we didn’t drop the kids over to her at least once a week, she would be at our place, gathering them all up, Aloha waiting in the club van ready to take them all on some new adventure.

I promised Bliss and the others, who were still getting their makeup done, that I’d be back in plenty of time to walk down the aisle.

Kian and Vaughn followed me out of the suite and into the hallway. We waited until the kids and Queenie disappeared into the elevator, abingsounding as the doors closed.

Vaughn was closest to me, so it was him I grabbed, fisting my fingers in the lapels of his suit and dragging him down so I could kiss his mouth.

He kissed me back, his mouth just as hungry as mine. “You look fucking amazing in that dress,” he groaned on my lips. “But I just want to take it off you.”

I grinned, breaking the kiss with my amusement. “I think we’re supposed to wait until after the wedding for that.”

Vaughn’s eyes were fire. “No chance I can wait that long.” He dipped his head again, pulling me tight to him and tipping my chin so he could claim my mouth once more. His tongue moved past my lips, sliding against mine, tasting me as I tasted him.

Kian moved in behind me, fingers skating over the curves of my hips that were a lot more pronounced now than they had once been. Four kids and pregnant with a fifth would do that to you.

But I liked it, this new figure of mine. I was never going to be as curvy as Bliss or Mae or Kara, but I had some padding on my hips, and right now, with a baby on the way, my usually barely-there tits were actually more like a B cup. Ones I really wanted in Kian’s hands right now.

His mouth found the side of my neck, and he kissed and sucked me there, holding me in place with fingertips that clutched my waist.

I snaked an arm back to rest around his neck, stroking my fingers along his skin when someone cleared their throat at the end of the hallway.

All three of us froze, and I peered out around Vaughn’s broad shoulders to find the wedding officiant, the planner, and both of their assistants all staring at us.

Kian chuckled behind me but didn’t let me go. “Uh-oh. Busted.”

Vaughn’s smirk held much the same sentiment.

The officiant’s cheeks were pink. “Uh, Rebel? We need to talk to you—”

I grabbed my guys’ hands and dragged them toward the elevator. “I’ll be right back,” I assured the woman. “Just give me five minutes.”

Kian winked at her. “Better make it fifteen. There is two of us, after all.”

I shot him a dirty look and stabbed the elevator button, wishing the floor would open up and swallow me whole.

But not enough to actually stop me from finding somewhere more private.