He nuzzled her neck. “What would the warning label have said about me?”

“Whoever marries this man must be prepared to put out morning, noon and night, even after a full day of tending to whining, sick kids.”

“That sounds about right, and I’m glad to hear you’re prepared to put out morning, noon and night.”

She nudged him with her elbow, making him laugh.

“I can’t help it that I love you so much I can’t stop touching you.”

“Don’t try too hard to help it.”

Mac grunted out another laugh as he kissed her. “How about a sofa quickie?”

“Do I have to do anything?”

“Nothing other than be your amazing, sexy self.”

She groaned dramatically. “There is nothing sexy about me right now. I have kid drool on my shirt.”

“I told you yesterday that I don’t want you talking shit about my wife, and I meant it. Everything about her is sexy.”

“I think you may be delusional or under some sort of spell.”

“I’m under the Madeline McCarthy spell. She just does it for me.”

She placed her hand on the face he hadn’t bothered to shave. “Remember when you were single and unencumbered and living it up in Miami? A different hot babe every day?”

He knew she was teasing him, as she often did about his former life. “I never think about Miami or being single. Why would I wish for that when I have you and our kids and my work and my family and a great life here?”

“It’s a better life than the one you had there?”

“You can still ask me that after everything we’ve had together?”

“I wonder sometimes. That’s all.”

Dropping his forehead to rest against hers, he said, “Let me put your mind at ease. There is nowhere I’d rather be than right here with you.”

“Even with sick babies who whine and cry all day?”

“Especially then. I got hours of Hailey snuggles today, which are hard to come by now that she’s on the move.” A strand of Maddie’s caramel-colored hair had broken loose from her ponytail. He tucked it behind the fragile shell of her ear and traced a fingertip over the line of her jaw. “I never wish for my old life.” He kissed her, starting with soft, sweet touches of his lips to hers, which became hotter, deeper kisses when her mouth opened and her tongue teased his. “And I can’t bear that you think there’ll ever be a time when I don’t want you.”

Being with her made the difficult day with the kids fade away. She always had that effect on him, making him forget everything else but her when they were together this way.