My Best Friend's Navy SEAL Dad: A Steamy Standalone Instalove Romance by Flora Ferrari (classic novels for teens TXT) 📕

somewhere along the way – as the delight in my life grew bigger and bigger – I knew I could never fight it.

I’m a man who sometimes, not very often but sometimes sheds a single tear of gratitude at how amazing his life has turned out.

Jackie is in the swimming pool, as she is every day. Our eight year old loves swimming more than anything else, and that fills me with so much pride I want to clap my hands together and roar and run crazy circles around the garden.

She loves water as much as any SEAL I ever met.

“You are not,” Henrietta says, pouting at me.

She’s got her mother’s hair but my eyes, glimmering with the same playfulness Tessa says sometimes fills my expression.

“Okay. Try now.”

I jiggle from side to side and she groans, but she’s giggling. She can’t stop herself from laughing when I act silly like this, even if sometimes she says she’s getting too old for my dad games.

Finally, I settle down, posing for her photograph, but then the twins come barreling over to me. They are two little terrors and I love wrestling with them, rolling around among the leaves and the grass as Henrietta snaps away.

I lift Russ over my head with one hand and tickle Jacob with the other, causing his infectious laughter to rise higher and higher in the air.

Blessed doesn’t come close to describing how I feel.

My wife won an award for photography last month and my daughter won an Oscar last year. My mother-in-law is happily married to Liam and they live on the west coast and visit often, and their visits always fill our lives with even more brightness.

My business is flourishing, with east and west coast offices.

But I’d trade everything we’ve worked for over the years for these moments, wrestling with my sons as my daughter makes laps around the pool and my other daughter snaps photographs and my other daughter lies content in my wife’s arms.

“Daddy, do the monster,” Russ giggles when I put him down.

I sit up, tapping my chin, pulling the silly face they all like. “What monster?”

“Mommy,” Russ calls. “Tell Daddy to do the monster.”

Tessa smiles, lighting me up inside, tapping her chin in the same way I just did. This is all part of the game, both of us pretending to have no clue what they’re talking about until I finally unleash the monster…

And then I spring to my feet and snap my arms together like a crocodile.

“Nom-nom-nom,” I roar, chasing them around the garden.

I catch Jacob and we fall to the ground in a fit of laughter, and then Russ walks to the edge of the pool. Little Jackie stops swimming, grinning up at us with her mother’s eyes and Angela’s smile.

“I bet you won’t follow me in here,” Russ yells, laughing as he leaps into the pool in his T-shirt and his shorts.

“Wanna bet?” I chuckle, sprinting to the water, not giving a damn that I’m still wearing my suit from work.

I dive in after him.

From the porch my wife laughs and then there’s another splash as Jacob joins us. Jackie giggles and leaps at me, getting involved in the fun, as Henrietta snaps photographs that will fill us with even more happiness in the years to come.

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Book 1: Baby Lust

Book 2: Veteran

Book 3: Built

Book 4: Bambino

Book 5: Rescued

Book 6: Leader

Book 7: Professor

Book 8: Burned

Book 9: Worldly

Book 10: Pistol

Book 11: Policed

Book 12: Driven

Book 13: Lucky 13

Book 14: Lumberjacked

Book 15: Protector

Book 16: Carpenter

Book 17: Italian Stallion

Book 18: Gardener

Book 19: Budapest Billionaire’s Virgin

Book 20: Billionaire’s Babysitter

Book 21: Cocky CFO

Book 22: Fireman’s Filthy 4th

Book 23: Mechanic

Book 24: SEAL’s Secret

Book 25: Police, Pooch, and Smooch

Book 26: Fireman’s Fake Fiancée

Book 27: Billionaire’s Virgin Ballerina

Book 28: Bitcoin Billionaire’s Babysitter

Book 29: Veterans Day Daddy

Book 30: Cowboy’s Christmas Carol

Book 31: Police Officer’s Princess

Book 32: Statham

Book 33: Bodyguard

Book 34: Greek God

Book 35: Billionaire Single Dad's Babysitter

Book 36: Mountain Man

Book 37: SEAL’s Justice

Book 38: Royal Romance

Book 39: Doctor Mountain Man’s Special Delivery

Book 40: Crocodile Dan D

Book 41: Mountain Man’s Secret Baby

Book 42: Doctor Bad Boy’s Secret Baby

Book 43: Cop’s Babysitter

Book 44: Nanny for the Cop Next Door

Book 45: Small Town SEAL’s Saving Grace

Book 46: Cop’s Fake Fiancée

Book 47: Billionaire’s Nanny

Book 48: Cowboy’s Babysitter

Book 49: Steamy

Book 50: Brother’s Best Friend

Book 51: Possessive Professor

Book 52: Firefighter’s Babysitter

Book 53: Soldier’s Secret Baby

Book 54: Ward’s Independence Day

Book 55: Doctor Next Door

Book 56: Possessive Policeman

Book 57: Coached by the MMA Fighter

Book 58: Boss’s Babysitter

Book 59: Virgin in New York

Book 60: Rock Star’s Baby

Book 61: Possessive Protector

Book 62: Possessive Australian

Book 63: Best Friend’s Brother

Book 64: Possessive Cowboy

Book 65: Summer Romanced

Book 66: Possessive Prince

Book 67: Lovers’s Enemy

Book 68: Cop’s Best Friend

Book 69: Possessive Firefighter

Book 70: Football Next Door

Book 71: Doctor December

Book 72: Possessive Canadian

Book 73: Blue Collar Billionaire

Book 74: Possessive K-9 Cop

Book 75: Possessive Brazilian

Book 76: Hockey Obsession

Book 77: Possessive Boston Irish American MMA Fighter

Book 78: Halloween Next Door

Book 79: Possessive Russian

Book 80: Baseball Mine

Book 81: Cop’s Caribbean Captive

Book 82: Instalove Island

Book 83: Dad’s Best Friend

Book 84: Thanksgiving with Dad’s Boss

Book 85: Possessive Italian Neighbor

Book 86: Possessive Portuguese

Book 87: Possessive Christmas Cop

Book 88: Russian’s Obsession

Book 89: Possessive Doctor’s Christmas

Book 90: Possessive Parisian Pilot

Book 91: U.K. Boxing Day

Book 92: Jealous Russian Stalker

Book 93: Italian Mountain Man

Book 94: Aggressive Russian

Book 95: Possessive Valentine

Book 96: Possessive Hunter

Book 97: Dad’s Russian Mafia Friend

Book 98: Russian Teacher

Book 99: Australian Obsession

Book 100: Russian Next Door

Book 101: Dad’s Irish Friend

Book 102: Nanny for the Russian Mafia

Book 103: Best Friend’s Dad

Book 104: Basketball Babymaker

Book 105: Possessive Veterinarian

Book 106: Brother’s Fireman Friend

Book 107: Brother’s Canadian Cowboy Friend

Book 108: Summer Vacation with Dad’s Best Friend

Book 109: Dad’s Italian Mafia Friend

Book 110: Dad’s Irish Mafia Friend

Book 111: Dad’s Football Friend

Book 112: Possessing His Dancing Queen

Book 113: Brother’s Cop Friend

Book 114: Halloween With Dad’s Best Friend

Book 115: Claimed By Her Boss

Book 116: Possessive Rider

Book 117: Dad’s Ex-Biker Buddy

Book 118: Possessive Undercover Cop

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