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"Ohdown in the pile of waggly tails They swarht

As atched our friend roll around on the floor, laughing his head off, I had a sudden vision of what Neil would be like as a father

"You do know that you’ll never get to play good cop with your kid, right?" I whispered to Sophia, who just shook her head as she looked on in amusement

"Oh yeah, that’s obvious," she said, then turned tobad cop"

"I’ht there," Simon said, then lay down in the pile with his friend

And as I watched Simon play with the puppies, I had a sudden vision of hi around on the floor in our hoood vision

"So, obviously they’re all adorable," Chloe said, watching the two grown hts on which you think you’d like?"

"Good lord, how in the world are we going to choose?" Sophia bent down to pick up a sweet little one that had begun nuzzling at her foot

Ha! Sophie’s choiceI bit it back and said nothing I did look down to see Si up at me with hands full of puppies

"A hundred percent no," I said, arching my eyebrow

In the end, it was the puppies who made the choice for Sophia and Neil Not one, not two, but three puppies had been adopted Cute won out over common sense, and even Sophia was excited about the prospect of having a houseful of paws and toddler toes all at once Truth was, I’d never seen her happier She still talked a great ga to have Neil by the balls, but she was thrilled with the turn her life was taking The puppy trifecta was just onedo down a bit perhaps, but never actually settling

Lucas and Chloe invited us to stay for dinner Neil and Sophia were staying the night Simon and I had made reservations at a little boutique hotel down by the ocean, and I was looking forward to being lulled to sleep by the sounds of the waves I was also looking forward to ive me a tour of the crazy house she lived in

"Seriously, this house is like a ti like it--are you sure you didn’t get a designer to re-create 1958 in here?" I gasped, taking in all the kitsch