“What if I don’t want to stay there?” Max asked his question for the hundredth time since they had landed in New Orleans.
The kids had been angry to learn they were leaving the beach ahead of schedule. Then when Olivier and Bobbie explained how Daddy had emergency work to do and the safest place for them to be where the photographers couldn’t reach them was at Levi’s estate in Louisiana, both kids had balked. Their reluctance amplified a hundred-fold when Olivier mentioned in their presence, he would be leaving within an hour of them arriving to the estate.
The flight home had been fraught with fights, kickoffs, and timeouts. Olivier, for the first time, was truly experiencing what it meant to disappoint a pair of twins with bad tempers. Bobbie was ready to pull patches of her own hair o
