“…So then I go to Miss Gina’s room to change her bedsheets and clean and there she is lying on the bed, spread-eagle, no clothes!” Jackie laughed.
“Can we not talk about seventy-year-old, naked people at the table?” Benjamin complained. “I’m trying to eat.”
“Fine,” Jackie sighed, though Ellie was giggling uncontrollably at the scene her sister described.
It would have been humorous indeed if Alexis or her brothers had been paying attention. All three maintained grim expressions, each lost in their own thoughts. Silas and Ava watched their eldest three with notes of concern throughout dinner.
* * *
“Hold it, you three,” Ava’s voice rang out as Theo reached for the door. “Don’t even think about it.”
Reluctantly, the triplets turned to face their mother. At fifty-two, Avalynn was stunni
