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“We’re going on a four-day road trip,” I le with you then”

Aaron sidles up to me, lays his head on my shoulder, and bats his eyelashes “Ooohhhh… I can’t wait”

I shove him off with a chuckle

“Actually,” Legend says By the hesitant tone in that one word, we all go silent His cheeks are slightly red “I have some news of my own”

“Pepper’s pregnant,” Erik guesses

“No… not pregnant,” he replies with a dismissive wave I’m not sure who knows it or not, but Pepper can’t have kids Legend had told me when I was at his house for Christh I don’t think that ether, and they have talked about adoption in the future “But… well… we sort of got o”

Dead silence

We all stare at Legend, unsure if we heard hiht, and, if so, unsure of how to respond

Until Dax hollers, “Holy shit, dude That’s huge!”

A few of the other guys still skating glance our ith interest, but no one approaches

“That’s awesoend They shake and do a half hug, then the rest of us ratulations

“Why the rush?” Erik asks “Or rather, why the distinct lack of a big fancy wedding with good food and alcohol for all of us?”

“No rush,” Legend says, starting toward the gate that will lead us off the ice toward the locker roo about it after we got engaged, we quickly realized we didn’t want a wedding It wasn’t important to us”

“Lucky,” Bishop e, lavish destination wedding this sueance coach But even as Bishop says that, I know there’s nothing he’d deny Brooke Besides, he’s looking forward to getting shackled for life

I distinctly reh I’ht be one of those things the bad memories keep me from