Page 128

But those didn’t affect him either.

Arms wrapped around my chest and I moved my hand down to cup Aspen’s ass.

I handed over her marshmallow and she took it with a happy smile.

“All for me?” She teased. “Thank you, you didn’t have to!”

She winked, and I snorted.

Laughing, I said, “Oh, honey. You mean the world to me. I’ll roast my marshmallows for you anytime.”

“That sounds dirty,” she teased, pressing her body up against mine.

I snorted.

“It kind of did, didn’t it?”

She nodded and offered her lips to me, which I took in the next moment.

“Ewww, Dad!” Attie said. “Get a room!”

I tossed a look at my daughter that clearly said what I thought of her teasing.

“Or you could go to your room?” I suggested.

She stuck her tongue out at me, and Mace pulled her over to the back of the ambulance, out of ear range.

“You know, they’re going to get married, don’t you?” Aspen said soberly.

I looked over at the two, then back at the woman that I loved.

“Possibly,” I shrugged. “But only after she’s graduated.”

“From high school or college?” PD butted into my conversation.

I looked over at the group.

Then smiled.

“Graduate school.”

Epilogue

Who ever invented the alarm clock should be ashamed of himself.

-Drew to Aspen

Aspen

“You’re shitting me,” I said. “You’re really going to allow me to take it off?”

Risa Fairchild, the lovely lady who’d been so helpful during all of this, smiled.

“I sure am,” she said. “But only because I need it.”

I snorted and picked my foot up, clunking it down onto the table enthusiastically.

Risa laughed at my exuberance, lifting my pant leg up further, then used her fancy key to unlock the ankle monitor.