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“Stop,” Mo me cry”

Jenna, Matt’s neife, laughs “If that makes you cry, wait until you learn what your boys have been talking about all night”

“What?” she asks, looking around the room at my beautiful family

“We’re all placing bets,” I say with a set the hell out of etbet

“Bets?” Mom’s eyes widen, as if panicked

“You’re going to give your mom a panic attack,” Gabriella, Spencer’s wife, says “Don’t worry, Joy, it’s a good bet”

And Gabriella is right — the bet is good It’s a bet on ill be giving our parents the first grandkids

My parents have us all take a faet one, and I alad that er crazy scheh, Ito believe I am happiest of all

Hattie pullsher bottom lip

“You’re the one wanting to go? I figured you’d love being at fas”

We’ve been married almost oneI never knew I needed Funny, chars out the best in me, and I want to be her protector, her safe place to land Her man

“I do love being here, but all that talk of that bet gotelse…” There is a sparkle inwhere your childhood bedroom was,” she asks

I chuckle, leading the way We clih the door I lock it tight

“Wow, quite the security systeh

“I had a bunch of brothers , and I wantedfor her zipper on the back of her holiday dress

“So you could entertain all those girls at the Snow Valley High School?”

“It was a decade of idiotic ive me?”

“It led you toher dress fall “And I am thankful for the lair, and the security — because it s And try to win bets”