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Tina nods, grinning. “You know my boys.”
I take out my phone.Would you be able to get the twins something too?
Sure, she replies.I’ve got my best little helper here. The usual?
Yeah. See you soon, angel.
I sit back, watching as the boys all wrestle Hudson to the ground.
I smile over at him, thinking how lucky I am to have the choice of so many amazing things.
I can sit with my daughter, watching her perfect sleeping face, or I can clap Jax on the back and tell him well done for all those three-pointers. Or I could go over there and wrestle with the boys.
“Life’s good, isn’t it?” Tina says, fiddling with her wedding ring with a dreamy smile on her face as she watches her husband.
I turn, looking past her, down the lane as my wife and daughter come walking down it.
The same smile touches my lips as I see Rosa carrying the ice cream holder, a plastic tray with cone-shaped holes in it.
Della is carrying one of her own.
She looks so beautiful, her hair grown long, her body curvy and tempting, made more gorgeous by her pregnancies.
But it’s more than her physical looks.
It’s how she carries herself, the confidence of a seasoned counselor, an angelic mother…or a fierce tigress if she needs to be.
Suddenly, I’m struck again, just like the first time I saw her.
Passing me on a bus.
I knew I had to have her.
And now I do.
She looks up, catching my eye, and smiling.
