Page 23 of Tempting Tessa

I finish getting ready and head over to pick them up. As soon as I pull in the driveway they both come out the front door. Tessa gets Ty into my truck and then hops in herself.

“Good morning, he’s been bugging me about when we could leave since a little before I texted you, so I hope you don’t mind us leaving right away,” she says as she climbs up in my truck.

“No problem at all. I’m starving myself. Does the Goose Café sound good to you?”

“Oh, I love that place! They have the best strawberry crepes and I haven’t been there in forever.”

After we are all stuffed from our breakfast, we decide to head back to Tessa’s. She needs to get some things done around the house and then is taking Ty over to her parents in the early afternoon. Her dad is taking him to a movie this afternoon, so she needs to get him there earlier than she had planned.

When we arrive at her house, I take Ty into the backyard to play with him and keep him out of her way so she can get her things done inside.

“Can you push me on the swing?” Ty asks as he sits down on a swing.

“Sure can, do you think you can get high enough to touch the sky?” I ask him.

“No, silly, my swing doesn’t go that high,” he tells me as he laughs at me.

“Ok, well let’s see how high you can get, how does that sound?” I laugh back at him, as I give him a big push.

“Good, I love to swing high!”

Just like yesterday, Ty can run and run and never run out of energy. We have a blast playing together and before we know it, Tessa is coming out to get us for lunch. We sit outside on the back patio and enjoy the sandwiches she made. Once we’re done with lunch we pack up to take Ty over to her parents’ house.

“Hey, we’re here!” Tessa calls out when we walk into her parents’ house.

“I’m in the family room,” her dad calls back, so we head in to find them.

“Hey, Jake, nice to see you,” her dad says to me as he reaches out to shake my hand.

“Nice to see you again, Jim.”

“Where’s Mom?” Tessa asks her dad as she leans down to give him a hug and kiss his cheek.

“She ran to the store quick. Something about being out of Ty’s favorite breakfast food.”

“She spoils him,” Tessa replies to her dad.

“Like you don’t?” he replies to Tessa and just laughs.

“Not all the time, but he is my baby…I’m allowed to spoil him,” she whines and pretends to pout.

“And as your mother says, we are his grandparents, it’s our job to spoil him,” he says to her.

“What are your plans for the rest of the day and evening?” Jim asks us.

“I don’t know…someone will not tell me what we are doing,” Tessa says while trying to scowl at me without smiling and then laughing.

“Ah, smart man. Keeping you on your toes. I like this one, don’t let him get away,” Jim says on a chuckle.

I wrap my arms around her and pull her into my chest.

“I don’t plan on it anytime soon, Dad,” she replies to him and then kisses me on the cheek.

“Well, say goodbye to Ty and get yourselves out of here. The two of us have a movie to get to.”

“Thanks, Dad, he’s been so excited to go to the movies with you. We’ll see you tomorrow.”

We say goodbye to Jim and Ty and head back out to my truck. I have reservations for 6:00 tonight, so we still have hours to burn until we need to get going.

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