Her Second-Chance Family. Holly Jacobs

      “Diabolical?” Audrey asked. “Willow threatened you with me?”

      “She said if I said no to letting her come mow, then you’d get out of the car and convince me. She said that once you set your mind to something, you made it happen. She used the fact you got her to eat quinoa as an example. I had to look it up,” he added.

      Audrey laughed, thoroughly delighted. “It’s good to know she thinks I’m persuasive.”

      “Let’s go out by the pool,” Sawyer said, and led the way.

      “There you are,” Bea shouted, and swam from the shallow end of the pool toward the deep end with Clinton on her heels.

      Willow was sitting on the edge of the pool, dangling her feet in the water.

      “Are you going in?” Audrey asked her.

      Willow shook her head. “No. I can’t swim.”

      Clinton swam over to Willow. “Come on into the shallow end. I’ll teach you.”

      Willow shook her head. “No, that’s okay.”

      “Me and Bea couldn’t swim when we moved in with Audrey.”