best shot.”
Roy sprang to his feet, unable to believe his eyes and ears. “How dare you come into my home?”
Theodore gave him a bored look. “If you were going to continue to send your men to play cops and robbers on my premises, I thought I might as well oblige you with a picture.”
Roy whipped out a pistol and made to shoot it. Before he could complete the motion, he was flat on his back, his head ringing as he stared up at the ceiling in confusion.
“I didn’t bother coming with Connor and the rest because I can handle a weasel like you on my own. You think you can try to snatch Exotic Rescue away from me? Bring it on. You think you can take away anything else? Bring it on. But if I ever catch you near my family again, I’ll break every last fang you own.”
He saw the surprise and alarm flare in Roy’s eyes. And he grinned, the grin was chilly and scary. “Yes, I know your dirty little secret, Roy Corning. You’re not the only one who can dig deep. The next time you put a toe out of line, I’ll be waiting to chop off that toe.”
Then, without another word, Theodore strode from the room.
Epilogue
“Daddy, you did it! You got Mom to stay and marry you,” Carla chirped, patting her father’s hand.
He grinned, “Thanks, Hyper.”
She wrinkled her nose at him and turned to grin at Jessica, “You should really decide on a better nickname for me or I’m gonna be Hyper for the rest of my life.”
Jessica looked up with a grin and nodded. “You got it, Hyper.”
It took a second for Carla to realize what she had done and she dissolved into laughter. “Fine. Be that way. Support him, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.”
Arizona and Kal ran up, identical grins on their faces as they tumbled onto the picnic blanket. “This is a cool spot, Dad. I’m glad we came here for a picnic again,” Ari piped up.
“When you and Mommy left for your honeymoon, Ari cried a lot,” Kal said.
Arizona was indignant, “Only because you were being a meanie pants.”
“I was not.”
“Were too.”
“Not.”
“Were.”
Jessica sighed as her gaze met her new husband’s over the heads of the arguing children, and she grinned, “Here we go again.”
He sighed as he lifted Ari onto his shoulder and stood in one fluid motion. The movement surprised her, and she fell silent, enjoying the ride on her new father’s shoulders.
Jessica beamed as she looked around at her new family. If anyone had told her that coming out here to work would result in all of this, she would have come sooner. She was so much happier and fulfilled, and she couldn’t be grateful enough for this second chance at love.
With a grin, she laid back on the blanket and tucked her hands underneath her head as she let her thoughts wander. Life was good and it didn’t matter that Roy had made himself the wicked stepmother in her story. Together, she and Theodore were stronger. They would deal with life and its curves every day as they came.
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