Oh Kaya. Billy would get you for that yet. He huffed good-naturedly, settling beside his twin girls and drawing them in.

"It wasn't hopeless if we got this far, was it?" he asked, leaning forward to perform his usual ritual with the girls. He left big, insistent kissed on each of their cheeks, then their noses. Obviously, as they were twins, he'd have to do everything symmetrically---if one twin received a slightly different kiss, they made him do it all over again.

So it was that he aligned his last kiss precisely on the center of each brow, smiling into it before leaving a much simpler kiss for baby Alex. "Plenty for all of you, don't worry."