Texas Lullaby (Texas Montgomery Mavericks Book 7) Read Online Free PDF

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    “Uncle Jason. I’m hungry,” Ellery said.
    “Me too,” Annie echoed.
    “Me three,” Jason answered, which made the girls giggle. “How about we go back to the room, get cleaned up, and I’ll have dinner delivered to the room.”
    “What are we eating?” Ellery asked. “I want chicken.”
    “Me too,” Annie echoed.
    “I think we can do that. Get on out of the pool and let’s get you wrapped up in the towels.”
    Damn, he was tired. The kids were cute and funny, but they were energy vampires.
    Back in the room, he ran a tub of water and put both girls in there, along with a tired and cranky Levi. He let the girls play a little while he took a wash cloth to Levi and then got him out. Keeping an eye on the twins in the tub, Jason put Levi in a fresh diaper and his pajamas and then sat him in the portable crib the hotel had supplied.
    “Be right back, buddy,” he said.
    Levi began to cry.
    “Yeah. I know how you feel,” he whispered and handed the baby a bottle, which Levi tipped up immediately and began sucking.
    Back in the bathroom, he did a cursory bathing of the girls and got them out and dressed in their pajamas. He settled them on the bed with a movie and called room service. Then he collapsed into a chair. Where was Lydia?
    The sound of the door lock popping jerked him awake. Good Lord, he’d fallen asleep in the chair. He quickly ran his gaze around the room. The twins were still engrossed in the movie. Levi had finished his bottle and was now standing in the crib watching his sisters.
    A bronze-colored long-haired dog preceded Lydia into the room.
    “Jasper,” both girls shouted and jumped off the bed.
    “We missed you,” Ellery said, her arms wrapped around the dog’s neck.
    “Yeah. Missed you,” Annie repeated.
    “Hi,” Lydia said as she pushed three large suitcases through the door.
    “Hi, yourself,” Jason said and heaved himself out of the chair. “I was getting worried.”
    “Sorry. It took a little longer than I thought it would. The girls do okay?”
    “We went swimming,” Ellery announced.
    “You did?”
    Both girls nodded.
    “Yeah,” Annie said. “Uncle Jason bought us new bathing suits.”
    Then with that announcement, both girls ran to the bathroom and came back carrying the wet swimwear.
    “Wow,” Lydia said. “Those are cute.”
    “Yeah, and he let us swim in the deep end.”
    Lydia’s eyes flew open wide and she snapped her head from the twins to Jason. “The deep end?”
    “Yeah,” he said, a grin threatening to break out as he teased her. “The deepest end of the pool.”
    She glared at him. “How deep was the deepest end of the pool?”
    “I’m not sure. Maybe two feet. Could have been as deep as two and a half.”
    She smiled, and it was so good to see that on her face after the terrible weekend. “I see.” She looked at the twins. “Very daring.”
    They nodded.
    “Okay then, go put your bathing suits back in the bathroom and let’s talk about dinner.”
    To the girls’ utter delight, Jasper followed them into the bathroom. In a minute, the sound of a dog drinking from the toilet echoed into the room.
    “Just tell me the water was clean,” Lydia said with a sigh.
    “Freshly flushed. I promise.”
    A knock at the door had Lydia spinning around.
    “I’ve got it,” Jason said. “We ordered chicken fingers for dinner.”
    “Yay,” the girls shouted.
    The headache that’d been threatening to break out all day finally pushed through and Jason flinched at the noise. Lydia must have seen his expression, because she hurried over to the girls to quiet them down and then to pick up Levi who’d started crying.
    Between the two of them, they got the girls fed and into bed over their whiny objections. Levi, who was turning out to be an easy baby––thank God––ate and fell asleep almost immediately. Jasper climbed onto the bed with the girls, curled up and went to sleep. It was close to nine when the room finally fell quiet.
    Jason