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“Shhh, don’t say that, or he will be.”
Murphy and Molly had been asleep for hours, but Chase had been a holdout.
“He’s so excited to see your dad tomorrow,” Will said.
“My dad is equally excited to see them all.”
The man who had once been an absent, remote father was a devoted, hands-on grandfather to their children.
“He wants to know how long he has to wait until he can pick them up in the chopper and take them to New York for a weekend.”
“A few more years,” Will said. “I’m not ready for that yet.”
Cameron cuddled up to him, arranging herself the way she did every night, with an arm and leg sprawled over him. “Neither am I. I’d miss them too much.”
“Funny, isn’t it, that there are days when we’d do anything for a break from the madness, but when someone who loves them as much as we do offers to take them off our hands, we’re like, no, not yet.”
“I know,” Cam said with a little laugh. “We’re silly to say no to that.”
“How about if we let him and Mary stay with them at our house for a few days and we run away together after Christmas?”
“That I could get on board with, as long as we don’t go far.”
“I might’ve already arranged this with your dad, Mary and a lovely bed-and-breakfast in Stowe. We’re leaving on the twenty-eighth, so we don’t miss game night, and we’ll be back on the first.”
Will anticipated Cameron’s squeal of excitement and kissed her to drown out the noise. “Good surprise?”
“The very best surprise ever. I can’t wait for some time alone with you.”
“And maybe after four nights with the hooligans, your dad will stop asking when he can take them to New York for a while.”
“No doubt,” she said with a grunt of laughter. “Mary will save his ass.”
“As she always does.”
“Remember when you saved my ass?” she asked, pressing against him suggestively.
He cupped his favorite ass and gave it a squeeze. “Best night of my whole life, except for every night since then.”
“Me, too. Best night ever. I still have those suede boots you rescued.”
“I know. Remember when I suggested you get a new pair?”
“That didn’t go over well. I’ll never part with them—or you.”
“And I’ll never part with you, love of my life, mother of my children, maker of magic.”
“This is my favorite night of the whole year, being here with our whole family. Thank you for giving me that, Will.”
“Thankyoufor giving me everything.”
She moved so she was fully on top of him and kissed him. “Definitely my pleasure.”
Lucas and Landonsnuck into the barn shortly after one a.m. A fire department colleague had dropped them off after the holiday party at the fire barn. They’d had such a busy December that they’d had no choice but to have the party late on Christmas Eve, after everyone had spent the earlier part of the evening with their families.
“What the actual fuck?” Landon asked when he tripped over something in the mudroom.
Lucas turned on the light and gasped when he saw Dexter sleeping on a gigantic bed.
