Breaking Away

“I just found out, like yesterday,” she groaned. Shea on the other hand, was smiling as he devoured the food in front of him.

“Jeez, don’t you know what birth control is?” Piper teased with a shake of her head.

“Didn’t you get pregnant on birth control?” Erik asked her, and she set him with a glare.

“No one asked you,” she snapped quickly.

“I know, believe me, this was not planned!” Elli admitted with a groan.

Everyone laughed as Shea wrapped his arms around his wife and kissed her loudly on the lips. “I promise, last one.”

“Damn right it is,” she scoffed. “I’m getting my uterus taken out just to be sure your super sperm don’t have anywhere to go.”

That had everyone laughing, and then it died down as everyone congratulated the two. Rowan kissed and hugged Elli tightly before squeezing Shea’s arm. “What are you hoping for?”

Elli shrugged her shoulders. “I have two of both. I really don’t care, and I think we are going to wait until it comes to know. A big surprise for all of us.”

“That’s nice.” Rowan grinned and everyone was smiling, excited for the new additions that were coming to the family.

When Elli turned from Rowan and pinned Reese with a look, causing her to pause mid-bite, she asked, “What?”

“Well, since you threw my business on the dinner table, why don’t we turn the tables?”

Reese shook her head as her heart sped up. “I don’t see what that would accomplish,” she said, putting her fork down. “No table turning needed, Mrs. Adler.”

“Oh, it will accomplish a lot. So just answer me this, Ms. Allen, are you and my leading scorer serious?”

Everyone eyes fell on them, all obviously wondering the same thing. Hoping to change the subject to hockey, Reese turned to Phillip and asked, “You’re the leading scorer?”

He nodded, a grin pulling at his lips as he gave her an exaggerated wink. “On and off the ice, sweetheart.”

The guys all laughed at that as Reese smacked him in the shoulder playfully. “Oh hush.”

“No, really, inquiring minds would love to know what is going on,” Harper said with a grin.

“Yes, are y’all together? Did Phillip break through my sister’s walls and make her want to settle down?” Piper asked with a laugh, while Reese set her with a look that could kill. When she glanced over at Phillip, he was just smiling as he shook his head.

“Something is going on. I did catch them in the Assassins’ shower together,” Shea said, like he was asking for someone to pass the butter. Reese was mortified as her mother and father both sent her a surprised look, their mouths falling open, as Piper and Harper giggled together. Erik laughed as Jakob just shook his head, and Claire kept eating her carrots. Reese ducked her head, covering her face as she begged for this moment to end.

Elli pulled back, smacking him loudly on arm, before yelling, “Shea! Claire is in the room, and what the hell, Phillip? You know better than that!”

“Sorry boss,” Phillip muttered.

Shea looked across at a wide-eyed Claire, who was also grinning, and said, “They were swimming.”

Claire giggled. “Sure they were. I’m not stupid. They have sex and lots of it because I caught him with his hands up her shorts against a wall at a competition in Chicago.”

“Oh, for fuck’s sake,” Reese groaned.

Phillip said, “Claire Anderson!”

“What?” she asked innocently. “What happened?”

“Reese, language!” Rowan scolded as Reese continued to shake her head.

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