Page 36 of Big Island Moonlight
“I need to go check on the chicken,” he said, standing.
“I’ll go reclaim my tablet and tell the girls to set the table.”
“Hey,” Tenn said, and she turned back to face him. “What’s the name of that app?”
“The one that Rory’s using?”
“Yeah. If we’re going to do this, let’s do it as a family.”
She crossed the room and stood on tiptoe to give him a kiss. “I’ll send it to you.”
“Okay.” He kissed her again, then kissed her forehead before he moved away.
“Hey,” she said, catching his hand.
He turned back to look at her.
“I love you.”
The line between his eyebrows disappeared, and his smile was soft. “I love you too.”
“Girls!” Lani turned and moved down the hallway, her heart light. “Dinner time!”
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“Nearly done?” Lani asked, stepping into the kitchen.
“Just about. Butterfly pea is the last batch.”
“Is it ready?” Kai shouted. He tumbled over the back of the sofa, followed by Rory. “I want to see!”
“Me too!” Rory shouted. She skidded to a halt beside her cousin. “What are we seeing?”
“It’s a magic trick!”
“It’s chemistry.” Emma poured the bright blue liquid into a glass decanter full of ice and lemonade, where the acid from the lemon juice turned the whole mixture pink.
“It’s pink lemonade!” Rory shouted. “Is that how you make pink lemonade?”
“It’s howwemake pink lemonade,” Kai said proudly.
“We’ve done this before,” Lani said to her daughter. “Don’t you remember?”
“But this one is so big!”
“It is.” She looked at Emma. “How are you going to move that thing?”
“I’ll manage. I’m at least as strong as Juniper.”
“Stronger!” Kai declared.
“Thanks, buddy.”
“She’s not still lifting those!” Lani said, horrified.
“No, Cody does all of the heavy lifting these days. But Juniper used to do it by herself. She was doing five markets a week at one point, plus working for Nate.”
