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Ava looked at her brother’s wife in concern "Are you okay? Are they worried about the baby?"
Ella shook her head, not appearing worried, which helped Ava to relax slightly "No, they say it’s common But"
Beth put an ar her friend’s sentence "You’re so horny you’re about to explode, huh?" Next to thenancy caht it would be just the opposite, but ht
Always the blunt one, Suzy deadpanned, "Well, that sucks Ior just the main event?"
"I’m really not sure," Ella admitted "I was too embarrassed to ask for specifics It doesn’tthat, Declan would cut off his hands before he would touchwill happen He won’t even let mehelp hiht and he ju Apparently, he thinks that if I help hiina at the sa at Ella’s description Only Ava shifted around unco about sex with Declan was a little disturbing She liked to pretend that both Brant and Declan lived with their wives without actually doing anything sexual It was right up there with talking about sex and your parents Of course, E to how freaky Brant was in bed Ava was certain that one day her eardruht never stop
Desperately needing a change of subject, she was relieved when Ella turned to Suzy and asked, "How did the hoht?" Ava knew from Emma that Suzy and her husband, Gray, had suffereda child She reood luck when they’d had lunch together yesterday
Suzy groaned before putting her hands around her neck as if she were choking herself "I think it went okay in the end, but it was a long evening" Looking across the room at Gray, she said, "I love that ht"
"Oh no," Claire whispered, "not the jokes again"
"Oh yeah Like we hadn’t discussed that very thing an hour before"
"Like dirty jokes?" Ava asked, see about
Suzy shook her head, saying, "No, not really The thing about Gray is that when he gets nervous, he tends to start cracking stupid jokes Apparently, it runs in the family, because hisIall these serious questions about our views on child-rearing and I swear out of nowhere, he looks at the woman and says, ‘Knock, knock!’ We both just stared at him until the woman put her pen down and asked, ‘Who’s there?’ Then he says, ‘Little Old Lady’ And then she of course stares hi, ‘Little Old Lady who?’ And he says, ‘Wow! I didn’t know you could yodel!’" By this tiht I would die, right there on the spot The wo her pen back up and acting like the whole thing never happened"