My mouth pops open in mock indignation as my sister fights her urge to smirk. "I have always been badass and cool, Juniper!" I protest, laughing.

"Ariel, believe me," Juniper sighs, rolling her eyes but letting her smile run free. "You have been the opposite of badass and cool. You were like, a pink bubblegum fairy glitter princess -"

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"Ugh," she groans. "Nevermind. Still not cool. Plus, now you've brought your mates home," she murmurs, looking at Luca and then around to where Jackson is standing with our mom, clearly intuiting that he's the other one. "Like this family needed more Alpha men around, all gigantic and eating everything in sight -"

"Not my Alphas," I counter, grinning at her, my arm still around her shoulders. "I got them trained up real good."

"So that's the other one?" she says, raising her chin towards Jackson, her voice dubious.

say, unable to keep the pride from my voice. That's my man over there, standing awkwardly at my mom's side with her arm around

As we stand observing them, Jackson's eyes move over to us like he

with doubt as her eyes focus on mom's arm around Jackson's waist. "Because right now, it kind of looks like

absolutely still with shock, staring at my

Maybe looking a little too close to my mate

him!" Juniper says, laughing with me, throwing out a hand towards them. Jackson frowns a little, not knowing what's going on and clearly wanting to know. "You're so gross," I groan, shoving my little sister playfully away from me before grabbing her hand and tugging

let dad see this - he'll get all jealous, and then we'll have a body to clean up. Which will be interesting, but messy." I grin, ignoring her words. Because as

hand from Jackson's waist so that she can reach for Juniper and me when

well, you've got about five more minutes of us being nice," Junie sighs, letting mom fold her into a hug

Ben and Daphne step away, heading to the little bar in the corner for drinks. Roger lets out a booming laugh at his

uncle Rog," I say, beaming up into

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