Total pages in book: 84
Estimated words: 82265 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 411(@200wpm)___ 329(@250wpm)___ 274(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 82265 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 411(@200wpm)___ 329(@250wpm)___ 274(@300wpm)
“Before July,” Brooks speaks up. “Palmer is due the middle of July, and I don’t want to be too far if she goes into labor early.”
“I’ll be fine, big guy,” Palmer assures him.
“I know you will. Because we’re going to be close to the hospital.” He leans over and kisses her.
“Let’s shoot for the first week of June.” This comes from Maverick.
“That’s like two weeks away,” Orrin comments.
“I’m all over it.” Maverick pulls his phone out of his pocket and starts tapping at the screen. A few minutes later, he’s grinning when every phone, well, almost every phone left at the party, chirps with a message.
Within minutes, all of my brothers, as well as Ramsey and Deacon, have confirmed they’ll make the date work, and getting the time off work shouldn’t be an issue.
“Done,” Maverick boasts.
“We need to find a sitter for Blake if she can’t come with us,” Kennedy reminds Declan.
“My parents will be happy to watch her. We deserve a weekend away. That doesn’t mean we don’t love our little girl,” he reminds his wife.
“I know. I just hate leaving her.”
“This might be the last one of these, fellas,” Brooks says. “I don’t know if I’ll be able to leave our little girl. My heart is breaking just hearing Kennedy talk about leaving Blakely.”
Palmer rests her hand against his cheek. “Having an adult weekend is good for parents.”
“We’ll see.” Brooks doesn’t sound convinced. However, I know Brooks, and his wife can convince him to do anything.
“Tink?” I turn to Alyssa. “You think you can get the time off?”
She shrugs. “I have the time, but you know that Tamara hates me.” Tamara is Alyssa’s boss at the Doctors’ office. She’s basically a queen bitch. She treats everyone who works there as if they’re an ant under her shoe. Especially Alyssa. She’s been there the longest and knows more about Tamara’s job than Tamara does. Tamara is jealous.
“I thought you were going to start looking for a new job?” Kennedy asks her.
“Yeah,” Alyssa agrees. “I’ve been looking.”
Reaching over, I place my hand on her arm. She gives me her full attention. “Try?” It would really suck if she wasn’t able to be there. Don’t get me wrong, I love my family, but Alyssa and I do everything together. I don’t really want to go without her.
“I’ll talk to her at work on Monday.”
“So, where are we staying?” I ask Orrin.
“I found a cabin at Lake Oconee. It’s eight bedrooms, nine bathrooms, twenty-eight acres, a pond, a hot tub, an inground pool, outdoor kitchen. This place is beautiful,” Orrin says, holding up his phone so we can see a picture.
“How much?” Brooks asks.
“Nine hundred a night plus tax. Dividing that by ten, it’s a hundred bucks a night and some change,” he says, meaning we’ll need to add some additional money for tax.
“Damn,” I mutter. “That’s cheap.”
“Yeah. Us married folk will double up,” Orrin goes on as if we didn’t assume they would be rooming with their wives. “Alyssa can have her own room, and then the remaining six will double up as well.”
“Hell yeah!” Maverick chants.
“Wait, that’s eleven,” Alyssa speaks up.
“Eight bedrooms,” Jade replies.
“Yeah, I know… I get that. But you said to divide it by ten. It should be eleven.”
“Nope,” Brooks speaks up. “You might not be his wife, but you keep his ass in line.” He grins, and the table laughs at my expense.
I’m good with it. I’m not out of control, but I do tend to mope around if my best friend isn’t in attendance. I’m assuming my brothers don’t want to deal with my mopey ass.
“I can pay,” Alyssa insists.
“Nah, it’s all good,” Declan tells her. He looks at me and nods. I can’t read his expression, but that’s a conversation for another day. I’m just glad they’re making it known that she’s welcome.
“I’m going to book it now for Thursday through Sunday. We have to cancel seven days before to get a full refund,” he says, staring down at his phone.
“I can’t believe that place isn’t booked,” Kennedy speaks up.
“That’s why I’m going to go ahead and book it.” Orrin pulls his credit card out of his wallet. “I don’t want to take the chance of losing out on it.”
“I hope everyone can go,” Palmer says. “This sounds like so much fun.”
“Everyone replied like it wouldn’t be a big deal.” Maverick holds up his phone and gives it a shake.
“If the wicked witch lets me take my time. The rule is one week's notice, and I’m giving her two. Hopefully, it won’t be an issue. No one else is off that week that I’m aware of.” I can hear the irritation in Alyssa’s voice at her boss.
“We need to get you out of there,” I tell her.
“Right?” Kennedy agrees. “That’s what I’ve been telling her. She doesn’t need to stick around and deal with that.”