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“Had to wear etting cold”

“Too bad you didn’t have your caret “That picture would have been pinned up on every bulletin board on the Triple C”

“Might have been a bit hard for Jessy to take a picture,” Laredo pointed out, an i she was in the tub, too”

As gleeful laughter broke out, Jessy s with them and shook her head in mock reproach “You just had to tell ’em”

“I think they would have figured it out,” Laredo said with a wink

“Now that picture would have been priceless,” Quint stated “No doubt about it”

Jake cas “Can I open one of ot to”

“Nope”

“A please” He dragged the word out in a soulful plea

“You heard your father, Jake,” Sloan put in, adding her weight to Trey’s refusal

He swung around to scowl at her, arms akimbo “How come?”

Sloan fell back on the tried and true answer “Because we said so” Jake’s shoulders slumped in defeat

About then Josh found rolling a ball on the floorinto the den With a squeal of glee, he took off toward the dining room at his fastest version of a run

“Josh, coo after hi him back”

As she started toward the dining room, Jake took off for the stairs Trey sat up, and swiveled around to watch him race up the steps