Three Southern Beaches: A Summer Beach Read Box Set by Kathleen Brooks, Robyn Peterman, Christie Craig

wife, McKenna, approached.
    “After a couple years in the NFL, I already feel old. I don’t know how you did it for so long,” Trey said with wonder. Will had been a very successful quarterback in the NFL for almost a decade. Further, he came back to Keeneston and took up coaching the high school team that Trey had played on along with Coach Cade Davies.
    “You thinking of coming home? I could use a running back coach,” Will smiled at him.
    “Not yet. But I think that’s our plan. When we’re ready to have kids, we’ll move back here.” Trey and Taylor had already discussed it. There were advantages they could give their kids with their NFL and Hollywood connections. But they both agreed that when it came to raising them, it was better to raise them in a place like Keeneston.
    Mo and Dani's car pulled up and their twin eight-year-old boys, Zain and Gabe, leapt out and dashed to where the other boys were playing. Sienna and Carter, Will and Kenna’s children, quickly got everyone’s attention as Sienna tossed a football back and forth with her brother.
    “Wow, she’s got an arm on her,” Trey said with wonder as Sienna threw a bullet at her brother.
    “Yup. She got her mother’s fashion sense and my arm. At ten, she’s now old enough to really be competitive. She’s the quarterback for the local flag football team. And Carter, three years younger, is dying to be old enough to play. But he has no interest in throwing the ball. He likes catching and running with it.” Will watched his kids as Sienna organized the older kids into teams.
    “Do you think he wants to play in the NFL?” Trey asked as he watched Sienna throw a zinger to her brother.
    “Nope. He wants to race horses. We don’t really care what he does, as long as he’s happy. Now Sienna lives and breathes football, but she’s only ten. They have lots of time to grow up and decide what they want to do in life. Gosh knows she argues like her mother, so I wouldn’t rule out her being a lawyer either.”
    Trey watched the kids play a little more and then couldn’t help but cringe as Sophie, Annie and Cade Davies’s nine-year-old daughter, landed a huge hit on Gabe.
    “Nice hit, huh?” Annie asked as she and Cade approached, Cade shaking his head.
    “I can’t get her to stop. Someone enjoys teaching her takedowns. Welcome back and congratulations.” Cade pulled him in for a quick hug and a pat on the back.
    “Thanks, Coach.”
    “I think you can call me Cade now. I haven’t been your coach in years.”
    Trey couldn’t do it, though. No matter how many years passed, he and Will would always be “Coach” to him. They settled down and talked football, Taylor, and the movie before Paige and Cole joined them. Their sons, Ryan, nine, and Jackson, six, ran off to play football with the group after saying their congratulations.
    “I have some clothes and things for you to take to Taylor after you pop the question. She had wanted them for the movie,” Paige told him as she rolled her eyes at Ryan blowing a kiss at Sienna. “I swear, Cole. Your son is going to be shot and I wouldn’t blame Will for doing it.”
    “I’ll go talk to him, again,” Cole sighed as Dani and Mo walked up to offer their congratulations.
    “Do you think you’ll get married here?” Dani asked.
    “Dear, don’t you think he should be allowed to propose first?” Mo asked sweetly.
    “They’ve been together seven years; it’s hardly a surprise and I’m sure they’ve already discussed it.”
    “Oh, they have. And I know it’ll be here,” Gemma called out from across the porch where she sat with the Rose sisters.
    John Wolfe lumbered up the steps and shook Trey's hand. “First week of April is lovely,” he said before taking a seat next to his girlfriend, Miss Lily.
    “If it’s the second week in May, the sheriff’s office will be happy to help with keeping the gossips, including my lovely sister-in-law, away,” Marshall Davies joked as he and his