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.

you're requested," he said

Rhea said as she

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

house, passing Fallon on the way in. As

and rolled his eyes as he and Dez walked to the patio table. "What did you buy them

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

"some of us almost

said, "I fell before you almost died so

the incident. Some folk can't move on from trauma but Winter wasn't one of them.

have a woman now, Dez," Cord said as he took a cola from the

took a few cubes of ice and handed them to Onyx, who lay at his feet. Onyx was a beast of a dog, and if she wasn't so well trained he would have been apprehensive about being

"I thought

understood that Spring had a life before him. "I hope you

before we fly out to Arizona to drop the girls off at Jacob's folks for summer break." Cord shrugged then said,

this sister? Do you see a love connection with Fallon and

Cord said. "Then we'd have

gonna happen," Fallon said as he opened

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

doth protest too much, me

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