Page 107 of Pucked Together

The crowd starts to gather as Keelan does a backflip onto the rink.

Rina groans next to me, "I can't watch."

"He'll be fine," Ryker says on the other side of me, still holding baby Stella.

"Mister Landry, who do you call to do battle today, sir?"

Keelan moonwalks over to DJ Nova's booth at Center Ice and grabs the mic.

"I call forth...my brother from another brother's same mother..."

The crowd goes quiet. Probably just as confused as we all are.

"Big B" Balinger!" Keelan yells into the mic.

"OH SNAP!" DJ Nova holds a fist to his mouth as if he can't believe it.

"Big B Balinger! You have been served, sir," his voice rings out through the loudspeakers.

"What?!" We almost all say in unison from atop the arena.

"Is he talking about Rowan?" I ask.

Ryker's eyes go wide just as his brother steps up to the rink wearing a bright blue silk robe. His head is covered with a hoodie.

"What the hell?" Ryker says under his breath.

Aunt Ginny, Rina and I all exchange confused looks.

The music grows louder. And the gathered crowd cheers just as Ryker's older brother sets foot onto the dance floor, walking with so much grace. He pauses in front of Keelan and throws off his robe theatrically. The fans standing near him battle for who gets to hold the robe.

"Is he going to dance?" Rina asks, her voice rising incredulously.

We get our answer as Rowan starts moving to the beat of the music with so much practiced skill that we're all taken aback.

"Excuse me. Where did he get those moves from?" I ask Ryker.

He's watching as his brother awes the crowd, and even Keelan looks stunned at the unexpected style the older Balinger has on the dance floor. A smile spreads slowly across Ryker's face as he watches his brother tear it up below.

"People can surprise you, I guess," he says, tearing his eyes from the scene below us and gazing back at our sleepy daughter.

"Well, isn't this a treat," says Rina, making her way back to the couch and retrieving her phone. "I'm genuinely surprised Mack even allows us to do these."

I grab some wine from the cooler in the corner and bring down a few glasses. "Builds unity if you ask me," I wink at her.

"I like it," Aunt Ginny says cheerfully, joining us for a glass.

"Uh-oh, mommy's busting out the wine glasses. You know what that means, don't you, Stella girl?" Stella yawns and closes her eyes in response. "That's right, Girl's night."

Ryker looks up at me. "I'll take her home." He grabs the diaper bag near the couch and bends to give me a kiss. “See you at home. Don't do anything I wouldn't do," he lifts a brow at me.

"Pfft, who me? Never." I bat my lashes back at him.

Rina and Aunt Ginny laugh, knowing I'll be doing exactly that.

"Bring her home in one piece, Rina," he says to my boss-turned-bestie.

"You got it," she says with the same two-finger salute the guys give her when she barks orders.