Must Love Babies by Lynnette Austin

Author:Lynnette Austin [Austin, Lynnette]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2018-04-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Brant dashed around the house, throwing his and Jax’s dirty clothes into the hamper and the dirty dishes into the sink. His brothers were coming in today. True, they’d stay at Annabelle’s, since he had only the one bed, but—He stopped. What the heck was he doing? Cleaning for his brothers? Oh geez, he’d turned into his mother. No way would either Tucker or Gaven expect Brant’s house to be white-glove clean. Well, maybe OCD Tucker would, but too bad about that.

He wouldn’t throw the clothes he’d already tossed in the hamper back on the sofa, but if anything else was lying around, it could stay right where it was. Lainey and the kid kept him far too busy to dust knickknacks.

Maybe he could talk one or both of his brothers into babysitting tonight, and he and Molly could take a breather over at her place. A breather, heck. He wanted to steal her breath.

Why? Because he couldn’t have her? Because it had been a while since he’d been with a woman? The Tennessee–Georgia excuse didn’t work anymore, since he was looking at moving here. If anything, proximity was a mark on the negative side of the list.

Speaking of lists, Molly’s was an annoyance.

Molly, herself? Definitely not. Kind. Giving. Beautiful. Sexy. What wasn’t to like? Yet, like a thorn, she’d worked her way under his skin, and it wasn’t totally comfortable.

He grabbed his wallet from the counter and slid it into his back pocket, then picked up his keys.

“Ready, kid? If we leave right now, I’ll have just enough time to grab a quick breakfast on the way.”

* * *

Rather than have his brothers catch a cab, Brant had decided to pick them up. He and Jax parked at the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport and were waiting by the luggage carousel when Tucker and Gaven came down the escalator.

On the way to the hospital, Brant filled them in on Jason’s visit.

“Good thing I wasn’t there.” Tucker’s jaw tightened. “I’d have punched the jerk’s lights out.”

“That’s the Marine talking,” Brant said. “You think I didn’t want to?”

“Why didn’t you?”

“Because I had the kid and a nearly hysterical Lainey to deal with. A knock-down, drag-out fight in front of them didn’t seem the way to go.”

“You’re right,” Tucker grunted.

* * *

As they strode through the hospital doors, Gaven carrying Jax, heads turned. Sandwiched in the middle, Brant was a year younger than Tucker and two years older than Gaven. His poor mother.

Although they all hovered right around six foot, give or take an inch, he and Gaven shared unruly brown hair and green eyes, while Tucker’s eyes were hazel to go with his nearly black hair, cut in a modified Marine style. They all carried scruff on their faces, worked hard, and had the muscles to show for it.

Yet they hadn’t managed to keep their baby sister safe, and that was a bitter pill to swallow.

Embarrassed, Lainey greeted Tucker and Gaven quietly, her gaze on her hospital wristband.

“Uh-uh.” Gaven, the extroverted, easygoing one, moved to the bed and drew her into a hug.

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