“So no ‘dad bod’ here?” he asked, tone wry.
“Hardly,” Sandra said, kissing his lips. “You don’t have to thank me. I have to thank you. Now I have seven people I love so much it’s almost scary. I have the career I wanted, and I don’t have to be hit on by skeevy patrons at last call.”
“And I don’t have a parade of angry debutantes circling in and out of my life.”
“Maybe we saved each other,” she said. “Maybe that’s the secret to all of this. We didn’t even know what we needed till the other came along.”
“I think that’s true,” he said, groaning when he realized that Alexander and Maite had jumped into mud puddles, getting dirt and grime all over their clothes. Off on the edge of the group, Felipe held a fat, green bullfrog that he was clearly trying to get down Tonya’s shirt collar. “Kids!” he shouted, glaring hard at Felipe. “You have to be nice to each other or you’ll all get broccoli instead.”
Felipe dropped the frog instantly and looked with practiced wide-eyed innocence at him. “Papa, I wasn’t doing anything.”
“No,” Sandra said, her tone going stern. “You were going to harass Tonya. You need to listen to your father, or I’ll add Brussels sprouts and pulpo.”
All the kids shuddered when his wife mentioned grilled octopus.
As much as the bulk of the brood favored him with their dark hair and swarthy skin, they were pure Sandra when it came to their food preferences.
The best of both worlds, he reminded himself. Utterly perfect.
The kids lined up obediently for Sandra, listening to her rules now that the terrifying threat of green veggies instead of sweets had been laid out. Each boy took the hand of his girl (they’d created the buddy system long ago to make sure that the children didn’t get lost in a crowd). Thinking back to the farm earlier, Xavier spun with vertigo.
“What’s wrong?” Sandra asked. “You look so worried.”
He laughed and kissed her, relishing the honey taste of her kiss and the sweet jasmine of her perfume. “I’m not, but I have to admit. I think we have our own set of ducklings, don’t you?”
She grinned and looked back at their children. “We do, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
“Me neither.”
THE END
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