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She was also interacting with his mother without issue, they were chatting about that new house of hers, and sometimes the boys ran off to tell their grandma of the things they were going to get to do up at the lake. They liked having a house up there, and he wondered if she was…

“We likely could.” She nodded. “It’ll be very pretty with that view of the lake, all the snow and surrounded by pine trees.” “What does that house look like?” Kay asked her. “It’s bigger than this house,” she stated, with a half smile to herself. “It has nine bedrooms and three guest suites. Do you…

“We’ll unpack and then come and help make lunch,” Kay told her, and she was greeted by all of his family, even his niece and nephew. They all even managed to call her Marilyn. Veronica looked her over and shook her head. “He’s a damned fool, and if I were you, I’d smack him up…

She, however, didn’t get up and go greet him. He had to learn how it is to be around them by himself, and how hard it was to wrangle them sometimes. The boys came back carrying a bag, each yelling about dinner was here. She’d set the table outside and turned on the outdoor lights…

He roughly dried his hair and ran a comb through it, before heading downstairs to collect his phone, wondering where her car was. He could see the twins pushing towels along the floor, running along laughing about they could beat the other one, had turned it into a game of some sort. Competitive, he thought,…

“I could well be for him. But he shoved me about, so why can’t I him?” she was more than amused with her own actions. “He didn’t really know what to do with me, after that. But I was then nice enough to let him sit and eat with the boys and I.” “Is he…

She smiled at the text from Kay, “Oh I see you’re sneaky and devious Marilyn, we’ve all discussed it, and we’ll all come down be there for the tree trimming this afternoon. I’ve got plenty of food to feed us all.” She chuckled softly to herself. “I won’t let them start the tree trimming, Kay,…

He sighed and looked at the time. The shops wouldn’t be open yet, it was barely 7am. He headed outside to talk to Marilyn about what she wanted to do about Christmas decorations, so the boys could have a proper Christmas morning tomorrow. Did she want to go with the boys herself, or did she…

They both turned and looked at her, mischief written all over them. “You might have forgotten how to walk.” They yelled at her and ran off laughing when she tried to swat them. They came back a few minutes later and were jumping and hopping from stepping stone to stepping stone as they made their…

“Wil.” He held his phone out to him. Wil looked at it and shook his head. “Perhaps your mother didn’t give her an address and she thought she recalled it. Maybe what she recalled was the Cliffside address instead, or the courier delivering it has a delivery out there.” He shrugged, “I’d wait and see…