Chapter 246: Elijah

The echoing screams of happy children rang in Elijah's ears, making his head hurt. He didn't mind listening to Brooksy scream and yell – well, there was that one note she liked to hit that made his eyes cross – but a whole passel of children...

There was a reason why he cleaned inside of the school while the kids were outside at recess.

The waitress slid their meat lover's pizza in front of them with an apology. "I don't know how the cook lost that part of the order," she said for what must've been the millionth time.

"It's fine – no problem at all," Aaron said sweetly, giving the harried waitress his best charming smile. She smiled back and leaned over to pick up a dirty napkin, letting her shirt gape away from her oversized chest as she went.

"We're good," Elijah told her curtly before she could really start to mooning over his older brother. He always was the charmer out of the two of them and could talk the socks right off a girl – quite literally – if he put his mind to it.