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,"

said as she kissed him on

the best, Uncle Dez," Andy sang,

for the house, passing Fallon on the way

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

"Hey, I'm not like you. I have to work hard for a

said, "some of us almost have

and said, "I fell before you almost died so stop

incident. Some folk can't move on

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

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

said, frowning, "I thought

he understood that Spring had a

more days before we fly out to Arizona to drop the

Do you see a love connection with Fallon and her? I hear she's a beauty

have three seasons in the

even gonna happen," Fallon said as

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

man doth protest too much, me

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