" So what?" my mother said, shocking me. "If she's the right one, then it doesn't matter. Besides, she's not that much older."I looked at Dad and he w...as smiling that smile he has when mother was stating the obvious."I'm glad you feel that way," I told them. "It's a big load off my mind. I wasn't sure how you'd feel about it." I might have been a little more concerned about her family wealth if I hadn't met her parents," Dad said. "They are very down-to-earth people and instantly likable. Of. “I didn’t catch that,” he said. “Yes, Sir.” He sat down across from me. “Lib,” he said. I looked at him. He was grinning boyishly. “I totally just dommed the shit out of you.” “You’re in so much trouble. I’m telling your mother about this!” “Tell her,” he said. He smiled again, quickly, but I caught a flash of genuine pain in his face. “You don’t need sex,” I told him. “You need love.” His face soured. “Don’t do that. For fuck’s sake, Lib.” “What?” I asked, taken aback. “Look. ”Only Tia, Tara, and their husbands could hear her. The kids were squirmy until April was standing in front of them. She sniffed and quietly told Tara that a baby needed a change. It was Tara’s baby. That shocked her even more than April and I walking up to them.“Sorry,” she said, looking down at the floor for a second. “Hi, I’m April.”She greeted Tia and Tara correctly, by name, before shaking the hand of the baby’s daddies. That she said in the voice that kids her age have, which clearly. “And it gave you a…” Janie was confused. She made an ambiguous gesture toward the lower half of Will’s body beneath the table. Bella giggled.“No,” Will sighed, “That was from the ritual earlier. It’s had me hard for almost an hour and a half now.”“Now? As in still? And you couldn’t just ignore it?” Jaine shook her head. “Honestly, you are the most oversexed man I have ever met.”“Same,” Belita chuckled. “You should have seen him at Merry Mary’s. He had Bella and-”“I don’t even want to know,”.