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.

exact ones you're requested," he said with confidence.

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

best, Uncle Dez," Andy sang, kissing his other

Fallon on the way in. As Fallon approached,

he and Dez walked to the patio

Cord. "Hey, I'm not like you. I have to work

laughed. "Yeah," he said, "some of us

narrowed her eyes and said, "I fell before you almost died

incident. Some folk can't move on

cola from the cooler beside him. "Seems we have a

watched as Cord also took a few cubes of ice and handed them to Onyx, who lay at his feet. Onyx was a beast of

frowning, "I thought you were bringing her

plans." Dez was a bit disappointed but he understood that Spring had a

Fallon for a couple more days before we fly out to Arizona to drop the girls

you see a love connection with Fallon and her? I hear she's a beauty too," Winter

"Then we'd have three seasons in

Fallon said as he

looked at Fallon. The fact that he told his family about Summer in the first place was odd. When Fallon noticed Dez watching him, Fallon gave him his middle finger and a

protest

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