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handle the reporter in regards to the restaurant. A selfish thought considering why they were coming back, but a relief nonetheless.
    “So much for a surprise birthday party,” Lucas added, spinning a chair next to Sid, then straddling it. “Beth pulled out a bigger surprise than anyone planned.”
    Will agreed with that. But she agreed with Randy, too. “It’s still Sid’s birthday,” she said. “And Randy is right. This isn’t bad news. We should be happy for them.”
    Randy raised a brow in her direction, as if surprised she’d agreed with him. She didn’t have to want him near her to admit he was right.
    “I wonder if Beth is happy about it,” Lucas said. “Joe looked scared shitless. Think Beth is doing any better?”
    Will knew how she’d feel if she were faced with a surprise pregnancy, but then again she wasn’t mere weeks away from marrying the man of her dreams. And even if she was, Will being in the family way would be a modern medical miracle now.
    “She told me last summer that they weren’t having kids for a while.” Sid dropped her head onto Lucas’s shoulder. “Goes to show. Never tempt fate by saying shit like that.”
    Randy chuckled. “Well, I’m happy for them. Once the shock wears off, they’ll see things in a better light.”
    Easy for Randy to say. He wasn’t the one whose life was about to change.
    “A new Dempsey.” Lucas shook his head, a grin teasing one corner of his mouth. “I guess it’s about time. Joe isn’t getting any younger, after all.”
    “Watch it, pretty boy,” Randy said. “I’m older than Joe.”
    “That’s what you could give me for my birthday,” Sid said, smiling for the first time since they’d left the clinic.
    “What?” her brother asked.
    “A niece or nephew.”
    Lucas had made the mistake of taking a drink while Sid was talking. Will got a shower of diet soda.
    “Hey!”
    “Sorry,” Lucas muttered, trying to wipe his mouth and hold back the laughter at the same time.
    Randy flicked Sid in the forehead. Sid tried to flick him back, but he stiff-armed her with a hand on the top of her head.
    “Knock it off before I end up wearing another drink,” Will scolded, but couldn’t ignore the pang of jealousy. She’d never had a sibling. Hadn’t even grown up with cousins. It would be nice to have a family, even if only to have forehead flicking contests.
    “Come on, badass,” Lucas said, rising from his chair and plucking Sid from her seat. “I’m saving you from an ass kicking, Randy. I hope you appreciate this.”
    The large man gave a quick smile, and Will’s chest tightened. The reaction took her off balance. He was still the man who’d ripped into her the day before. She and her libido needed to have a chat.
    “Don’t forget the presents and cards,” Will said. “Daisy collected them behind the bar.” There had been no time to pass the word that the party was cancelled, so Daisy had let people know as they arrived. Will got up to get the gifts, but Lucas stopped her.
    “Relax,” he said. “We’ll get them.”
    “Speaking of presents,” Sid said, turning to Lucas. “What did you get me?”
    The look that crossed Lucas’s face qualified as too much information even before he spoke the words. “I hid your present in the bedroom. It could take us all night to find it.”
    Sid turned an uncharacteristic shade of pink. “Then we’d better hurry home.” Putting words into action, she tugged Lucas hard enough to knock a lesser man off his feet. From then on, the two might as well have been alone for all the attention they paid to anyone else.
    “They make a cute couple,” Will said, watching the tall, handsome lawyer juggle the presents his tiny fiancée was piling in his arms. “Disgustingly mushy, but cute.”
    Randy crossed his arms, his eyes watching the same spectacle. “Hard to tell, but he’s softening her up. I wasn’t sure he had it in him for a while there.”
    Will took the opportunity to ask something