Malcom heard them before he saw them. The laughter of his family in the garden never grew old, though it was different now from when the pups had been little. The twins had just come back from their first year at university. Ella followed her mother’s footsteps and went into marketing. Evan decided to study business before going to law school.Then there was Ethan, who was back from boarding school for the holidays. In another year, he would also be going to university, though he said he wanted to take a gap year and travel Europe first.Rounding the corner, he saw them, Poppy and their three children drinking tea in one of the rose gardens. He had been right that she had conceived on their mating night; the twins were born just shy of nine months after. They had been slightly premature, but despite that, they had flourished. Ethan was only two years younger than them, coming so fast on a stormy night that they didn’t even have time to call for a midwife un
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