“Where’s your mother and brother angel?” I picked her up before she could babble me to death and went in search of the rest of my family. I found them in the playroom laid out on the floor. Looks like they were building something with Legos. Well Skye was building something anyway, Junior looked more interested in tearing it down.
“Can you please tell your daughter to leave the mutt alone?” Skye grinned up at me from her place on the floor. If anything she was even more beautiful now than two years ago when I’d first laid eyes on her. Motherhood suited her, and I couldn’t see that juggling school, the children and me had done anything to take the shine out of her eyes. I did everything I could to see that that never happened.
“What did she do now?” I let Amalie down to play with her brother and sat next to my wife stealing a quick kiss. “When she’s not lecturing him to death she’s riding him like a pony or trying to open his mouth. Why don’t we just get her a pony?” She rolled her eyes and turned to the kids who were whispering to each other. Shit they were probably planning a coup.
“One because she’s too young and two, where would we put it?”
“I don’t know but she can’t keep trying to ride the damn dog and the stupid mutt lets her. If I tried to do half the shit she does to him the fucker would’ve bitten off my face by now.”
“He loves her, don’t you see how he protects her?” It’s true, each night instead of having to kick him out of our room he stays at the door to the nursery. In the day as soon as he’s awake he’s back on duty. In the beginning he was almost as good as the monitor because more often than not he’d come into our room and wake us just before one of the kids started to fret, freaky shit.
“My parents are coming this weekend.” She said that shit tongue in cheek.
“What the fuck for?” I don’t think we’ve had a weekend to ourselves since the babies. There was always someone here getting in my way and hogging my damn kids.
“Talon…anyway I was thinking we could go out on Saturday night.”
“And who’s gonna watch the children?”
“My parents silly.” She bumped my shoulder with hers.
“Uh no, no way in hell.”
“What why not?” She slugged my shoulder but whatever.
“Babe your parents don’t exactly have the best track record when it comes to taking care of kids in their care.” She rolled her eyes at me and huffed.
“Do you know what everyone is saying?”
I give a fuck. “ What’re they saying?”
“That you never let them have the kids, that after five minutes you’re there with your hands out taking them back. And if you do allow them to hold them for more than five minutes you hover. They come all this way and then you barely let them spend any time with the children.”
“So?” I don’t see what she was getting at; I let them in the door didn’t I?
“So Talon that’s not normal.
“Babe do you remember Amalie’s first minutes of life?” I never forget; never will.
“I know Talon but she’s fine now.”
“I promised her then that her daddy would always be there, always take care of her and nothing is gonna stand in the way of that.”
“But Talon, my mother, yours, nonna? What do you think they’ll do to her?”
“Fuck if I know but I know for damn sure I’m not leaving her alone with your father, I’ll probably come back to find my kids on Ebay or some shit.”
“Talon…”
“No fighting in front of the kids you know your daughter sucks up everything.”
She leaned back on her hands and I swallowed hard, damn her body still makes me crazy.
“Babe, you’re about to bust out the top of that thing.”
She looked down at her breasts, which had yet to go back to their original size.
“I know, they’re swollen; the babies had enough but they didn’t take it all and in a few minutes they’re gonna hurt like hell.”
“It’s almost naptime if you can wait I’ll take care of it for you.” She lifted her lips for a kiss, which I gave, taking her mouth soft and sweet with my hand resting on her waist. The clapping and chortling started and I pulled away to glare at my nosy ass kids, always in my shit.