Page 248 of Broken Bonds
Then again, I really don’t want to know anything about Mom’s private life, as long as she’s happy with it.
“I am having a lot of fun,” she says. “For the first time since I can remember. I’ll see you when we get back, okay?”
“Okay.”
“Love you, and love to Todd and Kylen.”
“Love you, too, Mom.” I end the call.
Furrows shadow Todd’s brow. “Mal?”
I swallow hard and meet his gaze. “Uh, she’s down at a beach resort and will be back next Sunday.”
“Beach resort?”
“Not alone.”
“Who’s she with?”
I blink. “Morning Caldwell.”
He whistles. “Holy shit! Good for her.”
“Swear jar.”
He smiles. “New baby news exception.”
I laugh, but I’m still…stunned. “I-I don’t know how to feel about this.”
Todd laughs. “I have a feeling she’s not looking to get married, and he probably isn’t either. Good for her playing the field.”
“That’s my mom!”
He takes the phone from me and kisses me. “Says the guy who gets hot and horny over me talking about breeding him.”
Zing.
He grins. “See?”
“Not fair,” I mutter, shifting my sudden erection in my shorts so it’s not pinching.
He calls Iris and makes the smart move to put it in speaker mode first, allowing us time to ease back when she happily shrieks.
“ANOTHER GRANDBABY? WHEN?!”
When we get off the phone with her a few minutes later, I’m snickering. “Do you think she’ll keep shrieking like that for the fifth or sixth birth announcements?”
He pulls me into his arms. “I don’t know. Might take several more beyond that. I guess we’ll find out as ‘nature takes its course’, won’t we?” He nuzzles my ear. “Because we both know you’ll want me to breed you, over and over, and we’ll end up with several more pups than that.”
I pleasantly shiver in his arms. Yeah, we certainly will.
Hot damn!
The End
