Harlequin American Romance February 2015 Box Set: The Twins' Rodeo Rider\Lone Star Valentine\The Cowboy's Valentine\Kissed by a Cowboy by Tina Leonard

Author:Tina Leonard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Epilogue

One year later

“Do you like this one, Mommy?” Lucas held up a cartoon valentine he had signed for a classmate.

Lily smiled at her son’s kindergarten handwriting. The letters were sort of off-kilter, but they were in the right order and legible enough to read. She smiled at him proudly. “I think it’s perfect.”

Lucas stuffed the card into the envelope. “How many more of them do I have to do?”

She counted the names of his classmates and subtracted the number he had already finished. “Just three.”

He licked the envelope. “And then I get to help you make cupcakes, too?”

As class homeroom mother, that was one of her duties. “You do.”

Gannon sauntered in, looking big and handsome and as sexy as could be. Wedding ring glinting on his finger, he plucked a chocolate kiss from the bowl on the table. “Yum!”

“Daddy!” Lucas scolded. “Those are for the party!”

“I know, which is why we should sample them to make sure they’re all okay,” Gannon teased, peeling off the tinfoil. “One for you.” He gave one to a wildly grinning Lucas. “One for Mommy.” He popped that one in Lily’s mouth. “Another one for the new baby in her tummy. And last but not least, one for me...”

Lucas squinted, thinking. Looking a little like the biological dad he still rarely saw or heard from but acting like the caring, confident father he had since happily claimed as his own. “Daddy, do babies like candy?”

“When they’re old enough to eat it.” Gannon ruffled Lucas’s hair, then bent down to kiss the top of his head. “When they’re little, they mostly just have milk.”

“Mommy, how long until the new baby comes?”

“Not until next September,” Lily said. Within days of her and Gannon’s very first wedding anniversary. “When you’re in first grade,” she explained.

Lucas nodded solemnly, readily accepting yet another change in his young life. “Well, when the baby gets here, I’ll make him—”

“Or her,” Lily added.

“—a valentine, too.”

“That’s a good idea,” she said, praising him.

Satisfied, Lucas went back to the final card.

Gannon pointed to the briefcase of work he’d brought in with him and handed Lily a message slip with a name and number. “Another couple agreed to mediation before they head to divorce court.”

Lily typed the contact information into the computer tablet that kept her organized at her new job at Cartwright, Anderson, Montgomery & McCabe. “I’ll call them and put it on my calendar.”

Gannon wrapped his arms around her. Hugging her tenderly, he stroked a hand through her hair. “You know, if you keep this up, settling everything out of court, you’re going to put the rest of us out of business.”

Lily chuckled. “You love it when things can be settled harmoniously.”

“I do.” His midnight-blue eyes gleamed mischievously. “And you know what I like even better?” He bussed the tip of her nose, and then her cheek. “Being in a joint law practice with you and me and Liz and Travis.”

“You know what I like?” Lucas chimed in, not to be outdone.

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