Chapter 18
Gracie Allende plucked her twin siblings away from their mother’s abdomen. “What did I tell you?” She said to them primly, and Romy had to hide a smile. Gracie patted the twins on the head gently. “You can’t crawl on Momma’s tummy. It’s sick, and we have to be careful.”
Gracie looked at her mother with wide, green eyes. “That’s right, isn’t it, Momma?”
“It is petal, just for now. Just until I feel better. Then all five of us are going to go have fun. Daddy’s already talking about going somewhere hot for a vacation…maybe somewhere you would like…maybe somewhere with a fairytale castle?”
Romy laughed as Gracie whooped. All the money in the world, Romy thought fondly, and all my daughter wants to do is go visit Mickey Mouse.
Gracie frowned at her. “Do you think the castle has
