Adam’s Boys
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And then she leant in to kiss him, so tenderly that his heart stopping hunger for her rose up within him like an all-consuming fire. He could think of nothing else but scooping her up, carrying her straight up to bed and making passionate love to her for the rest of the night—it was not to be, of course.
With a loud knocking on the closed door of the pantry and Pete’s anxious calls from outside, he and Abbie shot to their feet and Adam threw open the door.
Outside, the kitchen was steadily filling with smoke as the pancetta and garlic transformed themselves on the stovetop from crisp to incinerated.
In one movement Adam swept the fry pan off the heat and plunged it under running water in the sink where it gave off an even bigger cloud of sizzling steam and smoke.
“Takeaway pizza!” the four boys whooped and yelled in uncanny unison.
Adam looked at his wife next to him to find her looking back at him in wry bemusement. She was surveying her smoky kitchen, the burnt remains of dinner, Nerf bullets sticking to most of the walls and four boys jogging in a small circle shouting war cries that sounded suspiciously like ‘we are having take-away pizza’. And as he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close, Adam knew that Abbie was absolutely right: so long as the four of them and their new baby were together, they could make every single one of their dreams come true.
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ISBN: 978-0-85799-076-1
Title: Adam’s Boys
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