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

Dez," Rhea said as she kissed him on

best, Uncle Dez," Andy sang, kissing his

girls backed away and ran for the house, passing Fallon on the

his eyes as he and Dez walked to the

I'm not like you. I have to work

"some of us almost have

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

their light-hearted mention of the incident. Some folk can't move on from trauma but

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

lay at his feet. Onyx was

frowning, "I thought

and her sister had other plans." Dez was a bit disappointed but he understood that Spring had a life before him. "I hope

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

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

said. "Then we'd have three seasons in

gonna 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 noticed Dez watching him, Fallon gave him

man doth protest too

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