Pressing my lips together, I held myself back from chiding him, allowing him to take the call. A breezy feminine voice soon echoed in the car through the speakers attached to the dashboard.
“Hi, Jax! Guess what?!” The voice said happily and I felt a bite of jealousy in my gut. She was calling him the nickname only I was allowed to call him.
Still, I kept silent as he chuckled. “You know I suck at guesses Julia darling.”
Darling???
I glanced at my son over my shoulder and found him thoughtfully looking at his father.
But Jaxon’s next word snapped my head back to the front. “What?! You are in the city? Right now? You didn’t even tell me beforehand.”
“I know boo. It’s all a surprise even to me too.” Her voice sounded anything but rueful. “Anyway, I’m literally stranded at the airport. You HAVE to come pick me up.”
Expecting my husband to explain to his childhood best friend that he was preoccupied with his family, I was shocked at the bone marrow when he AGREED.