by K. Webster
“Okay, who wants a snack, Team Constantine?” Ash says from the middle of the towel she’s laid out on the sand. “Mommy brought applesauce.”
Lane, ever the serious one and who lives to please his mother, says, “I love applesauce.”
No-No, however, screeches in indignation, “No appo-sauce! Gummy beaws!”
This sets Tuck off, who needs a fucking nap probably more than his sister, and he starts to bellow, fat crocodile tears rolling down his chubby cheeks.
“You made the baby cry,” Lane chides his little sister, his blue eyes glinting angrily. “Bad girl.”
She raises her hand like she’s going to smack the shit out of him. I snag her up before she can make impact and tug her into my arms. Her brown pigtails are curly, and her hazel eyes are filled with fire.
Just like her damn mother.
Which is why I get stuck dealing with her.
“We don’t hit,” I explain, my voice stern as I settle her in my lap.
The ocean air today is salty and the waves are mild. It’s a perfect, sunny beach day. Even when everyone is fighting and crying, it’s still perfect to me.
Noelle scrunches her nose at me. “Wane is bad. Not me!”
“No one is bad.” I kiss her forehead. “Tell Lane you’re sorry and I’ll give you a present.”
Her cheesy grin makes my heart melt. “I sowwy, Wane. I wuv you.”
“It’s okay, sissy,” Lane says back because he’s a good boy. “I love you too.”
“I did it, Daddy.” Noelle holds out her cute little hand, waiting for a treat.
Ash smirks at me but is busy trying to feed Tuck a bite of applesauce. My wife—yeah, she’s locked in forever—thinks I spoil the kids. As if she has room to talk. She’s just as spoiled.
I reach into one of the bags we brought down from the house to the beach and fish out the gummy bears. Noelle is all grins as I hand her a red gummy bear. Lane watches me with a serious expression that always kills me. The kid is so damn adorable but he’s going to get ulcers one day if he doesn’t relax.
I toss him one and it bounces off his forehead making him giggle. Tuck makes a go to grab it, but Lane is quicker. Noelle has already demolished her gummy bear and is holding out her hand for another.
“Who do you love?” I ask, holding the red bear up and not giving it to her yet.
“Mommy!”
Ash snorts out a laugh. “That’s right! Love you too, baby girl!”
Noelle grins at me and I give her the stupid gummy bear.
“Who else?” I urge, brows lifted.
“Uncle Peewee!”
Not Daddy. Her uncle Perry. Fucking wonderful.
“Who else?” I growl, playfully tugging at her pigtail.
She wriggles and her eyes get wide. “Gwamma!”
“Give up,” Ash says, giggling. “She can go all day. I bet she loves all the seagulls more than you too.”
“Seaguhs!”
“Thanks for that, brat.” I glower at Ash. “You’ll pay for that later.”
When the kids are sleeping and the nanny takes over for the night, I’ll tie Ash to the bed and spank her round ass. Knock her up again while I’m at it too. She said Tuck was the last one, but we both know she’ll give me as many babies as I want. And I’m a greedy man.
Noelle’s tiny hands grab on to my hair, yanking me to her.
“No-No wuvs Daddy!”
I kiss her now-sticky face. “That’s right. Daddy loves you too, No-No. And Lane and Tuck and Mommy.”
“And gummy beaws!”
“Those too.”
We spend the next half hour playing in the sand and waves. The kids’ laughter is better than anything on this earth I’ve decided. Better than my new Lambo. A million times better than the swanky private jet Halcyon purchased last year. Way better than the house we’re having built that rivals Mother’s compound. Their laughter is worth more to me than any sum of money or any material thing I can dream up. Their laughter is priceless.
“Look, Tuck,” Ash says from beside me, a soft smile on her face. “Daddy has hearts in his eyes again.”
I skim my gaze from my fussy baby boy to my hyperactive little girl to my serious son. And then I find my stare on my wife’s perfect plump lips that’ll be swallowing my dick later.
“Yeah, Cinderelliott, I guess I do.”
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