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Nico groaned. “Ignore her, Grace. She’s been hallucinating since her fifth month. Where is everybody? I thought I’d have to rescue Grace from the hordes.”

“Your mother locked everyone in the kitchen.”

“Johnny, really.” Terry shot him an indulgent look. “You tease too much. Grace will think you’re serious.”

Grace thought he was wonderful. She watched his daughter wrap her arm around his waist and give him a little side hug. Cute.

“I raised Nico with good manners,” Terry said, patting Grace’s arm. “I’m sure he’s taken good care of you and behaved like a perfect gentleman. How did you hurt yourself?”

“I slipped on a set of jingle bells in the kitchen.”

“My kitchen,” Nico said. “At the lodge. They fell off a cookie tray. And I’ve been stuck with Grace ever since.”

“He caught me before I hit the floor,” Grace assured his mother. “And he went with me to the clinic, then took me home because I couldn’t do the stairs and he had a ramp.”

Beth’s eyebrows rose and she and her father exchanged amused looks.