Chapter 7

“Your overrated familiar doesn’t seem too bad to me,” Adam said softly. In the kitchen, Ida and Colette were discussing the relative advantages of waiting until after dinner to start baking cookies. “Of course, your familiar seems incredibly exotic to me.”

Sasha’s fine brows arched, but it was Scott who responded first.

“Mom’s a character, that’s for sure. And Colette has always been too verbal for her age. That’s probably our fault.”

Sasha snorted. “Like either one of us could ever have a kid that didn’t know how to speak her mind.”

Scott set her foot down on his lap and began massaging the other one. “As long as she doesn’t start pulling some of the stunts we did until she’s moved out, I’ll be happy.”

Knowing exactly what sort of stunts he would have pulled with either Scott or Sasha, Adam knew asking for details could be dangerous. But he couldn’t help himself. “Like what?”

“Anything with the words ‘all night,’ ‘free for all,’ or ‘no holds barred,’” Scott said.