“Yes, spend time with your old man!” she calls back towards him, emphasising the last two words with a cheeky grin. Simon scampers over, flinging a cloth over his shoulder, and pulls his wife to him with a devious grin. “You never minded me being older before, manamea. You going to trade me in for a younger man?” She giggles and quips back in response, but my attention turns to Matt, who’s staring up at me—wondering the same thing I am. Do I mind that my pet name is what his father calls his mother? The answer is that my heart skipped a beat, but my brain doesn’t know. As usual, my body is ten
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