A warm welcome to author Sean Michael who is visiting us today here at Love Bytes 🙂
Thank you to Love Bytes for hosting me today.
I love writing stories about fathers and their kids. I think, just like love is love and everyone deserves their happy ending, families come in all shapes and flavors as well and everyone deserves a loving family – whether they’re born into one or are chosen into one or do the choosing of their family themselves.
With Logan and Dirk, we get a blend of all three. Both men have daughters that they fathered with women they loved, Logan also adopts a set of triplets, and Logan and Dirk choose to make a family together with their offspring.
Then there’s the men who meet at the Teddy Bear Club twice a week in their informal father and kids group. These men had become good friends, and more. They are a chosen family and when Logan needs help, they are all there for him. They take care of each other, just like family is supposed to do.
It really makes me happy to write about these men and their families and I hope to revisit the Teddy Bear Club again soon.
Sean Michael
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Blurb:
Too much of a good thing?
When Logan gets the call about newborn triplets in need of a home, he steps up, realizing too late the daunting task he’s taken on. He’d be lost without the men of the Teddy Bear Club—especially Dirk.
Dirk even offers to spend spring break at Logan’s home, helping him and the babies settle in. He loves being a dad, and he wants to help Logan find the same joy. It doesn’t hurt that they enjoy spending time together.
Before they even realize it, they’re settling into a routine… becoming a family.
Falling in love.
But their new bond is about to face the ultimate test. Will they come through and realize that with love, there’s no such thing as enough?
Dirk pulled up along the curved driveway of Logan’s amazing house, Melly in the nonnewborn car seat in the row directly behind him, watching Coco for about the five hundredth time. She could sing along with all the songs and loved the dog beyond all reason. In fact, she had started asking for one, thanks to this movie. It made him smile. Okay, so she made him smile all the time.
The core guys from the Teddy Bear Club had spent the weekend helping Logan get his place babyproofed, along with buying all the stuff Logan was going to need. The lists had been prodigious, but between the five of them, they’d crossed pretty much everything off, and now Logan was equipped with everything from diapers and formula to baby monitors to cribs, changing tables, and baby swings, to a new digital camera for the inevitable masses of pictures he’d want to take. Logan had thanked them all over and over, but frankly, Dirk had been happy to have the excuse to spend more time with Logan. The guy was… special, which his taking in three newborn babies proved. As if he’d needed proof. Logan was the main reason Dirk came to the Teddy Bear Club between classes on Tuesday and why he took Melly out of day care early on Fridays. Oh, he liked all the guys, but Logan was the one who filled his belly with butterflies.
Melly began singing along with another song, her sweet voice breaking him out of his reverie. Right. He had a job to do. Grabbing his phone, Dirk texted Logan to let him know he and Melly had arrived.
Logan appeared and skipped down the stairs, hurrying to the van. Tall and dark-haired, Logan looked gorgeous in his jeans and black turtleneck. He really was a stunner. And he didn’t even know it, which only made him hotter in Dirk’s opinion. Dirk couldn’t help checking Logan out as he climbed into the passenger seat.
“Dirk. My lifesaver. Are you ready to meet them? My babies.” Logan was pale as milk, shaking, but along with the worry in his eyes was a light, making them shine. “Rebecca’s bringing Sarah over this afternoon after school to get to know them.”
“Melly and I are excited to meet them. Does Sarah still love/hate you for agreeing to take them?”
“I did tell her before I said yes, just in case she was totally opposed to the idea. Thank God she wasn’t. She’s gone through all the emotions since then—excited, scared, mad, happy. It’s hard, but….”
“I imagine she’ll have times she thinks they’re great and times she hates them. Just like most older siblings. Hopefully in the end you’ll have a positive balance. That’s all any of us can hope for.”
“Yeah, I guess so. I never thought, when I agreed to father a baby with Rebecca, that I’d miss out on so much only having Sarah Fridays and alternate weekends.”
Dirk took off the parking brake and moved to the end of the driveway before easing out into traffic. “Have you ever thought about asking to have more time with Sarah?”
“At this point, we’re leaving it up to Sarah, trying to be flexible. We’re both in the same school district, so it’s never a problem which one of us she’s with on weekdays.”
“Ah. I guess I always assumed the fact that you only had her one day a week and alternate weekends was down to an agreement between you and her mother.” They stopped at a light and he looked at Logan and gave him an encouraging smile. He thought Logan had a bit more color in his cheeks now.
“Well, in the beginning, yes, but she’s getting older, huh? Old enough to have a say. And so far it’s been pretty balanced.”
“That makes sense. She turns ten soon, right?”
“She just turned ten, yeah. What about your girl? She’s going to be four?” Logan smiled back at Melly. “Or is it thirty?”
“Yeah, some days it feels like thirty.” He turned off the city street and into the hospital grounds, searching for nonemergency parking. He found it and pulled the van into a spot that wasn’t as close to the hospital entrance as he’d have liked. Of course, once they had the babies, Logan could wait inside with them while he brought the van around. It was too cold for newborns to be outside for very long.
Logan took a deep breath as Dirk turned off the engine. “Okay, I think… I think I’m ready for this.” They had the car seats and warm clothes to bring the babies home in, as well as a set of blankets to cover them with, all courtesy of Aiden.
“You are. You’ve got this.” Then Dirk turned to look at Melly. “We’re here, Melly. You ready to go see Uncle Logan’s babies?”
“Uh-huh. I like to have babies.” She held her hands out to him.
“I know.” He undid her belts and drew her into his arms, hugging her. He smiled at Logan over her shoulder. “She’s going to hate leaving them behind when we go home, I’m sure.”
“I really appreciate you helping me. Seriously.”
“Well, I’ll tell you a secret. I like babies too.” Dirk grabbed one of the car seats while Logan took the other two.
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Best-selling author Sean Michael is a maple leaf–loving Canadian who spends hours hiding out in used book stores. With far more ideas than time, Sean keeps several documents open at all times. From romance to fantasy, paranormal and sci-fi, Sean is limited only by the need for sleep—and the periodic Beaver Tail.
Sean fantasizes about one day retiring on a secluded island populated entirely by horseshoe crabs after inventing a brain-to-computer dictation system. Until then, Sean will continue to write the old-fashioned way.
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