Chapter 52

The little girl giggled and shrieked in happiness, flashing her dimples again. Her twin’s expression was identical.

“Did Carlotta come with you?”

He nodded. “She’s in the girls’ room, trying to clean up the Chernobyl-like disaster of toys they made in three minutes flat. When my kids were young, I wasn’t home a lot, so I missed most of this day-to-day craziness. When I was around, I’d take the boys outside with a ball and chase them to exhaustion. Kimber…” He shook his head. “She always wanted to have fashion shows and paint my nails—at least until the boys teased the girliness out of her. But I never knew how to entertain her, so I can only imagine these two are going to keep Logan on his toes for a couple of decades. Isn’t that right, princesses?” he asked them with a big smile.

Clearly, the colonel loved his granddaughters.

“Hey, see if you can get Macy to eat, would you?” The older man shoved a jar of food in his hands.

One-Mile froze. “Sir, I don’t