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Her fingers slid between her legs, brushing along my cock as she began to rub her clit. I moved faster and so did her fingers.

With a growl, I crashed my lips to hers. Her body trembled beneath mine. Thrust after thrust. Slapping skin. Heavy breathing. It was a cadence that sent us both over the edge at the same time.

“Fuck, sunshine. I don’t know how it gets better every time, but it does.”

“I know,” she whispered as her arms wrapped around me in a tight hug.

I finally rolled to her side, tucking her against me. She was asleep within minutes and feeling more content than I had in a long time, I sent a prayer of thanks that she’d come back into my life and vowed that nothing would separate us again.

CHAPTER37

Emalee

“And the little monkey threw poop on the big one.” Iain held his stomach from laughing too hard as he recounted his zoo experience at one of our Sunday brunches at the farm. “And they started a poop fight. It was hysterical.”

Cam and Chase laughed along with him. “What else did you see?” Chase asked.

“The snakes were cool,” he said, causing Cam to shudder. “The lions just laid around, but they were neat. And one of the hippos had this pink thing that kept getting longer in his pee-pee area. That was weird. I asked Dad what it was, but he was too busy reading the map they gave us.”

Oh, god.It was just as funny hearing it for the third time since they’d been to the zoo.

Cam’s shoulders shook as she hid her face in her napkin which did nothing to silence the snorting noises she was making. Chase laughed outright.

“I wanna go back sometime. Can we, Daddy?”

“Maybe next winter,” Zach answered, his voice gruff with exasperation.

“Okay. Can I be s’cused?”

I nodded, silently laughing too hard to correct his pronunciation.

Cam’s eyes were wet as she looked at Zach after Iain left the room. “Pink thing?”

Everyone but Zach laughed. He glared at us. “I never want to see a horny hippo again. But the kangaroo cage was the worst. We saw the males, which, if you didn’t know, have fucking huge balls. The kids wanted to know what they were. I thought I’d die. Some of them were also humping each other. They even had threesomes. All of the kids wanted to know what they were doing.”

Chase was howling. “What did you tell them?”

Zach grinned, clearly pleased with himself. “I told them they were trying to play leapfrog.”

“Leapfrog?”

“Well, yeah. I don’t think a bunch of first graders need a sex education lesson. I mean, who the fuck takes a bunch of six-year-olds to the zoo in the spring anyway? Don’t they know the animals are all horny that time of year?”

The rest of us only laughed harder. I wiped my eyes. “I told you taking a bunch of kids on a field trip wouldn’t be easy.”

He shook his head. “Might be a while before I sign up for that again.” But his tone was light, and I knew if Iain asked, he’d be the first to say yes.

“So, Em, how was your interview while Zach was protecting innocent minds?”

I nodded. “I think it went well. They took a lot of pictures and were very complimentary of the rooms and the breakfast samples I put out for them.” The group of judges had asked a lot of questions about the history of The Dogtrot, my procedures, and plans for its future. “They really loved the gardens and thought the idea of a gazebo was wonderful. If I win, they want to come back and take updated pictures. I can’t thank you enough for helping me pull all that together. I know it took up a lot of your extra time.”

Zach and Chase had both taken time off from work to help me paint and get the gardens dug and planted. It wasn’t the completion of my vision, but it was a beautiful start.

“Eh, that’s what’s family is for,” Chase said.

“When will you find out who wins?”

“They said in a couple of weeks.”