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“Yeah, you do,” he said He wouldn’t have if Je his everythat he was suddenly changing his schedule, afraid to take his son to day care, for fear of what soht report

Not that he thought, for one second, that Mara or any of the ladies at the day care would report hiured out it was either the hospital, because they had to report frequent hospital visits, as he’d learned last night during his reading—Levi had been to the eency room six times—or Tressa

She’d wanted to have sex the previous weekend He hadn’t been interested enough to pull off the pretense, but had thought he’d ood excuse She’d seemed to roll with it at the time

But his ex-wife had a tendency to be vindictive where he was concerned Soone right in her life Might as well be him

LEVI CHATTERED ABOUT building a sand castle while they waited for the burgers and fries Je sandbox, the hostess had seated them at a table with a view of the beach

Je in the sand with his son Building castles Or surfing the waves like he used to do Before he’d met Tressa, become a husband—and then a father

“What’s a twin?” Levi’s foot, swinging beneath the table, caught Jem on the knee The boy’s chin barely reached the top of the table, but he’d been pretty particular about not wanting a booster seat

He was a big boy and not a baby, at least that day

“A twin?” he asked, giving his son his full focus

“Mmm-hmm” Levi’s chin lifted “Lacey said she has a twin What’s a twin?”

An i to mind Not one but two of the beautiful blondes, hair down, of course

What in the hell was it with hi the woman

The next second he was shrugging off his propensity for doing so He was a guy It hat guys did

Not that he could remember the last time he’d mentally undressed a woman he’d just met

“A twin is someone who has a brother or sister as born at the same time they were,” he said