#Chapter 128 – Sister-in-Law

“That’s what you get,” Nico says, laughing and following us into a living room at a more leisurely pace with Lucy on his arm. “For speaking to children! Something which I make it my policy to never do.” “Is it that you won’t speak to them?” Frankie chimes in, wry, his voice low so only we can hear, “or that they won’t talk to you?” “What?” Nico snaps, turning to glare at him. “You’re like, the male modern-day equivalent of a swamp witch, Nico,” Frankie says, laughing. “Angry all the time, zero fun, with a sincere possibility that you’ll eat them alive if they come too close. Honestly, I wouldn’t be so proud of myself if I were you.” Nico just rolls his eyes and waves a hand, dismissing him, but Lucy and I laugh. Frankie gives us a wink. Christian, fortunately or unfortunately, tries to wrangle the kids, to get them to stop shouting his secrets out – But suddenly the door swings open and we all realize that it’s way, way too late for that as Giana and Bianca come sweeping