Emerald Cove

Chapter 21

Katherine's POV

I woke from what was possibly the best sleep I've ever had. As I became aware of my surroundings I realized I was snuggling Charlotte. She was facing me, asleep on my shoulder with her hand on my bare stomach. I was craddling her close to me.

I let go of her and tried wiggling out from under her. This just caused her to groan and pull me closer to her. It was at this point that I heard snickering and realized we were not alone in the bedroom. I glanced over Charlotte's shoulder to see Jordan and Jacob peering over the bed back at me.

"Uh... Char... Char, wake up," I whispered in her ear shaking her shoulder.

"Na-I don't want to get up. Ten more minutes," she muttered.

"Charlotte," I said a little louder and her eyes shot open. She looked at me shocked and then realized the pretzels that was our bodies and sat up abruptly causing the boys to giggle louder. She jerked her head to look at them.

Jordan grinned wide at us and leaned she that he could look around her at me and said, "I told you you were going to marry Aunt Char!"

"What? No... No one is getting married," Charlotte said back to him.

"It's not nice to lie, Aunt Char," Jacob said frowning at her.

"Jacob, I'm not lying to you," she said defensively.

"Aunt Char, we aren't three. We know that when you're in love with someone and you live with someone and sleep with someone then you are going to marry them. Sarah said I had to marry her and is all I did was let her kiss me," Jacob said.

"Jacob, that's not exactly how this works," she explained.

"We know about sex, Aunt Char," Jordan stated boldly.

"What? No one is getting married and no one is having sex! What do you know about sex?" she asked baffled.

"Sex is when you take touch your belly to someone else's. Tyler tried to have sex with me, but I told him my daddy said I have to be 40 before I could talk about sex. Are you 40, Aunt Char?" Jordan said.

"What? No I'm not 40 and you're daddy is going to have to explain further to you about sex. I'm not crossing that bridge. But no one in this house is having sex and no one is getting married," she said.

"Whatever you say, Aunt Char. Come on, Jordy," Jacob said grabbing Jordan's hand and leaving the room.

Charlotte flopped back down in the bed and groaned. "How the hell am I going to explain this situation to Mark and Victoria?" she asked covering her face.

We got dressed, got the boys dressed, and got into my car to head to town to get breakfast. We went to the little diner Jessica's parents own. I ordered an insane amount of pancakes, bacon, eggs, and toast. We ate breakfast in silence and I marveled at how much the boys could eat. At some point during breakfast Victoria called Charlptte to tell her they were home and she could bring the boys home whenever.

When we finished eating I drove over to Mark and Victoria's house. As I was pulling up my phone started ringing.

"It's my assistant," I told Charlotte apologetically.