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Down.
Ass hitting the wooden floor hard enough to send the air rushing out of my lungs…and to give plenty of flashbacks of painful collisions between my ass and the ice when I’d been learning to skate ages ago.
“Oh my God,” Hazel said in a rush, those eyes somehow even wider. “Oh my God—” She scrambled up to her knees and reached for me…
Then promptly landed face first in the icing.
Now Dominic and I were the ones who were wide-eyed, looking toward each other in slow motion then toward my woman, who was placing her hands flat on the filthy wooden planks pushing up, and…
I chuckled.
That was dumb, laughing at one’s wife under any circumstances.
This one—where she could have potentially hurt herself and was now covered in sticky icing…including the majority of her face—was certainly deadly.
“It l-looks like—” I chuckled again, clamped my teeth together, laughter starting to shake my chest. “L-like one of th-those expensive f-face masks you and the g-girls—” My amusement had well and fully escaped at this point, filling the air, not hidden in the least. “Use!”
“Uh-oh,” Dominic said.
My son was smart as hell and empathetic—both traits I knew he got from his father.
Both of which meant that he was right to be concerned.
Haze swiped at each of her eyes, icing glooping from her fingers down to the floor, dripping from her chin onto her shirt.
She glared at me.
“You are in so much trouble.”
“I—”
But I didn’t manage to get to attempt an apology (which, in fairness, would have been challenging considering how hard I was laughing). Because then she pounced, launching herself into my lap, knocking me back into the cabinets, smearing the icing further into the floorboards, into our clothes, into our hair and skin and faces.
I gaped.
But then she was kissing me, body pressing closer, hands going into my hair, making even more of a mess…
And I didn’t care.
Because I tasted her laughter on my tongue.
Because our kiss was interrupted by Dominic’s war cry as he hurled himself at us, wiggling his body into our embrace, his arms coming around us and wrapping tight.
Icing.
Surprises.
And…laughter.
That was my life now.
It wasn’t perfect.
It was messy.
But I couldn’t picture living my life any other way.
FOUR
