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Nash sighed,her halfway “He doesn’t”

Her s to both him and Ricky “Listen?”

Again, Nash sighed “You’re right He’s all me”

Megan laughed softly and placed a kiss on

Nash’s lips before taking Ricky into her arms “Beckett needs you”

“Yeah, all right” Nash tickled Ricky until he burst out laughing “The creek is bad news, buddy Off limits That’s what the pool is for, and only e’re with you”

“Bad Bad Bad,” Ricky quipped

Waran stride away toward Emma and Harper, who sat in chairs in front of the porch, their feet in Ricky’s kiddie pool They both had been suffering over the last nant and Harper was six, and there had been no break in the heat

Nash glanced down at Gus, giving him a pat “Owe you for that one Good boy”

Gus panted with his tongue wagging out

When Nash strode toward the sand ring, Gus ran into the kiddie pool, splashing the wo the heat

“Gus,” Megan yelled

Emma and Harper screamed

Ricky laughed, splashing in the water too

Nash chuckled and strode past the cat house Not that the cats used it anyuest ranch, he’d ended upthe little fluffballs since he wasn’t at the ranch ht theed around his farht Gus seemed the happiest about that