“Me too,” Luke said, a little grimly. Olivia leaned over to put a reassuring hand on his thigh and he placed his hand over hers. It might not be ideal but he didn’t want to have to let her out of his sight sooner than he had to today. He had the unnerving feeling that if he did, something terrible might happen. He knew it was a bit of an overreaction, but he just couldn’t quite shake it.

“I’m not sure if I’ll be needed with so many hands on deck, but I don’t want to be left out,” Michael said dryly.

Next to him, Ellie winked at Lexie. “F.O.M.O.,” she whispered.

Olivia snorted. Fear of missing out? Hopefully there wouldn’t really be anything to miss out on.

“I wouldn’t mind seeing Marquis too, if that’s okay,” Maria said, a little shyly.

Lexie immediately perked up.

“Ooo, yes, Ellie and I can show you and Rick around if you want while these four work!” she offered. Maria glanced at Rick who looked back at her and then nodded, agreeing to the visit.

Olivia was going to have quite the guard today.

The guys had invaded ladies’ night. It was really sweet and tonight Olivia did feel a bit relieved to have a completely full house of people all around her rather than having to go home or anything, but she had a feeling the smothering was going to start wearing thin on her nerves pretty quickly.

Right now the guys were pretending to be good by staying upstairs but…

“It’s not the same,” Angel grumped, glaring at the tater tot she was currently dunking in some ranch. “We know they’re up there. How are we supposed to get wild when we know they’re right upstairs?”

How, exactly, she thought she was going to get wild when she could barely waddle up and down those stairs was a different mystery to be solved, Olivia thought with amusement.

“They’ve been waiting for an excuse to do this,” Lexie said darkly. She was sitting on the floor, as usual, in front of Angel and Leigh and was in charge of making sure Angel didn’t have to get up for anything. Or, barring that, being part of the human forklift to get her off the couch. That’s not how Olivia had put it, those had been the exact words to come out of Angel’s mouth. Apparently she was feeling fat today and being pregnant was no excuse. No one had been brave enough to try and argue with her. “You just wait, we won’t be able to have another real ladies’ night ever again. The Sentinels have returned!”