"Only 'cause I found you."
"You sweet-talker, you." Marilyn twisted around to hook her hand around his neck and pull him down into a kiss.
"Oh, geez!" Pete's voice rang out across the yard. "What's with the kissing? Can't a guy get a break around here?"
Marilyn and Eli broke apart, her face burning, but Pete was clear across the yard near the screening fir trees, hands on his hips as he glared at Stevie and Frank's daughter Tracy.
"It wasn't like it was a real kiss," Tracy retorted. "My lips were dry." And she stomped off, face flaming, if what showed in the yard light could be believed.
"Oh, hey, wait--" Stevie went after her.
The adults waited until the two kids vanished around the house before collapsing in laughter. "Hey, Court!" Frankie called out. "You better have a talk with that son of yours."
"You better explain the truth about kissing to your daughter," Eli called back.
"Yep," Marilyn said, when his arms went around her again. "I foresee a few bumps coming up in the road ahead."
"Hey, babe, as long as you keep on loving me, we can handle anything."
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About the Author. . .
Gail Dayton began telling stories when she was five, when Bambi came home with her from the movies, but she didn't write any of them down until she was in fourth grade--a story about a cat. She discovered fairy tales not long after that, and her horizons expanded.
A RITA finalist for Best First Book in 2002 with Hide-and-Sheikh, a contemporary series romance from Silhouette Desire, Gail won the Aspen Gold award for Her Convenient Millionaire (another Desire), and was a Prism Award finalist for The Compass Rose. She won the Best Fantasy Prism Award the next two years, for The Barbed Rose and The Eternal Rose.
Gail lives with her husband, youngest son, and granddog Dolly the Princess Pitbull, on the Texas Gulf Coast, two blocks from the beach. The problem with living at the beach is that you have to live at the beach. You still have laundry and housework and such, only with sand. However, the beach makes up for it.
Visit her at http://www.gaildayton.com
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Other books by Gail Dayton:
Contemporary romance from Harlequin Desire
Hide-and-Sheikh
Her Convenient Millionaire
The One Rose Trilogy (epic fantasy)
The Compass Rose
The Barbed Rose
The Eternal Rose
Blood Magic series
New Blood
Heart's Blood
Heart's Magic (coming soon)
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