A Taste of Spring

Chapter 35

Cord pushed his large frame out of the patio chair and met Dez halfway. They did the universal male embrace/clap on the back hug.

"I hope so. I need more testosterone in my home, man. With Winter, Andy, Rhea, Val, and Onyx...I'm feeling like I'm trespassing."

"Where is Val? She didn't fly in with you guys?"

"Uncle Dez!"

"Dez!"

Dez looked out over the yard, finding the girls in the pool. The two of them climbed out and came running toward him, dripping wet but with huge smiles. He hadn't seen the girls in person for almost six months.

Rhea got to him first, hugging his right side. Andy wrapped her arms around his left.

"Girls," Winter said as she passed holding salad dressing in her arms. "You're getting Dez all wet. Go. Get dried off so you can eat."

Andy pouted but looked up at him. She crooked her finger at him so Dez bent low to the girl's eye level. "Did you bring them?" Andy asked.

"I did," Dez said.

"The colors?" Rhea whispered.

requested," he said with

you, Uncle Dez," Rhea said as she kissed him on the

Uncle Dez," Andy

away and ran for the house, passing Fallon on the way

Dez walked to the patio table. "What

I'm not like you.

"some of us almost have to die for

said, "I fell before you almost died so

Some folk can't move on from trauma but Winter

woman now, Dez," Cord said as he took a cola from the cooler beside him. "Seems we have a Winter

who lay at his feet. Onyx was a beast of

frowning, "I thought you were

bit disappointed but he understood that

out to Arizona to drop the girls off at Jacob's folks for summer

a love connection with Fallon and her? I hear she's

Cord said. "Then we'd have three seasons in the

happen," Fallon said as he opened a beer.

The fact that he told his family about Summer in the first place was odd. When Fallon

doth protest

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