ALEX IS VERY HAPPY to put worries about embarrassment, interruptions, and the rest of the world aside and focus on making dinner with Paul for seven people in their kitchen. Liam sits at the kitchen table trying to play a card game with Ali, and Carly keeps the babies corralled.
This, right here, he can handle. Given recent crises, Alex is also happy for the relative bliss of mandated family time social media blackouts. Which is why, when his phone rings, he checks it only reluctantly. It’s probably just Delilah again.
Except it’s Gemma. He really should take this call, because friends are certainly not social media. Alex feels a twinge of guilt for standing her up. At least she hadn’t seemed mad. And at least she’s probably not calling now about a work emergency — if she were, Liam’s ph
