Love Entwined (41 page)

Sacha held out her hand to Miles. “Up! Up!” She ordered as the clown made funny noises and loped toward them.

“Hang on, soldier!” Roman scooped Miles up in his other arm. “We are being attacked, but here comes mummy to save the day!”

Sacha held her arms out to her mother. “Jack-ee play!”

“
Ma petite
.” Amelie handed her mother the glass of lemonade she held and took her daughter. She held Sacha on her side to accommodate the growing bulge of her stomach. They were expecting their third child this fall.

She kissed Sacha’s soft cheek and smiled up at Roman, who was staring at his golden-eyed angel.

He arched a questioning brow at Amelie, who nodded, her eyes misting over in joy.

“That is mummy, say mummy, Sacha,” Miles commanded from his father’s arms. He took his job as a big brother seriously. He dissolved into shrieking giggles when his father started tickling him.

Sacha laughed and clapped her hands at the antics.

As Roman bent to kiss her, she leaned toward him from Amelie’s arms, grabbed her daddy’s face with both hands and planted a noisy wet one right on his mouth. Sacha turned back to her mother and with a big grin, hugged her.

“Jack-ee!”

Overcome by how perfect destiny is, Amelie grinned at her daughter, arranging the flounces on Sacha’s yellow chiffon dress.

It was so clear now looking into those sparkling eyes gleaming like ingots, so like another pair she had known long ago.

Margaux had returned to them.

Roman wrapped his free arm around Amelie and kissed Sacha. “That’s my girl.”

The End

If you asked Danita Minnis which is easier, writing songs or writing novels, she would say it was the former. Melodies and rhymes are second nature. What her characters want is another thing entirely. With her debut novel,
Falcon’s Angel
, Danita learned to listen to her spunky heroine and sinfully confident hero. They’re funny and in danger, and that’s just the way they want it. Lesson learned: don’t try to save them.

When she’s not writing, Danita exercises her lungs at her son’s soccer matches and their favorite theme park, because everyone knows it’s easier on the stomach to scream your way down a roller coaster.