Chapter 60

“It makes me tired to look at them,” Gran said. “All that energy.”

“Too bad we can’t figure out a way to harness it.”

I got down on the floor and played with the boys for a while until Grace announced that it was nap time. She and I each picked up one of the crawlers, and we led the other two down the stairs. After the kids were down for the count, I joined Gran downstairs in the sunroom for a cup of tea before I went up to the office and started writing.

I was still at it a few hours later, when I sensed a presence in the room just before I felt Charles’ arms circling me from behind. “Are you at a stopping point?”

“Give me five minutes to wrap up this scene,” I said.

“Just so you have your naked body in the bed by the time I get out of the shower,” he said, and left the room.