Chapter 461 Get them both!

Mia's POV

The cold hits immediately. November in New York. The kind of cold that makes your nose run and your fingers ache.

I should have grabbed a jacket.

Kyle steps out behind me. He's wearing a sweater. Cashmere probably.

"MAMA!" Alexander waves from the far side of the yard. He's standing on top of a pile of leaves that reaches his knees. "LOOK HOW BIG IT IS!"

Ethan is still adding to it. Methodical. Carrying armfuls from under the oak tree. His systematic approach to leaf-pile construction.

Madison is sitting at the base of the tree. She's arranged leaves in a circle around herself. Some kind of pattern. Colors alternating.

"Come down here!" Alexander shouts. "Come see!"

I walk down the deck steps. My socks immediately soak through. The grass is wet and cold.

Kyle follows. His shoes making soft sounds on the wood. Then on the grass.

"It's freezing," I say. To no one in particular.

"Yes."

"We should have brought jackets."

"Probably."

"The children are going to catch cold."

"They'