“You might want to get out of here before they arrive.They’ll drive you batshit crazy.”
“It’s fine.”
Her eyelids were too heavy to stay open.“Seriously, Jesse.Get out while you can.”
“I’m not going anywhere, so quit trying to get rid of me.”
They were the best words he’d ever said to her.Maybe her getting shot in the leg would turn out to be the best thing to ever happen to them.Wouldn’t that be something?
“What should we do for dinner?”Sam asked on the ride to Ninth Street.“Takeout?”
Nick curled his fingers around hers.“We’ll think of something, I’m sure.”Leaning forward in his seat, he looked out the window.“So this is what the outside world looks like.I asked them to take us the long way so I could catch a glimpse of the cherry blossoms.”
“Oh, good call.I haven’t seen them yet either.”
“I always think of our wedding day when they bloom.”
“We got lucky that they came early that year,” Sam said, remembering one of the best days of her life.
“We got lucky in more ways than one that day.”
“Best day ever.Right up there with Scotty’s adoption and April twentieth of this year.”
“Five more days until they’re ours forever,” he said.“I can’t wait.”
“I know.Aubrey is so excited about the party that night.”
“Cutest daughter ever.”
“We have four kids!”
Nick gave her a squeeze.“Look at us.”
“Sometimes when I think about how it all happened… It’s still surreal.When I offered to care for Alden and Aubrey, I never imagined it’d be forever.”
“Or that we’d get Elijah out of it, too.”
“Right.And a daughter-in-law.”
“We have adaughter-in-law.”
His giddiness touched her heart.All she’d ever wanted for him was the family he’d never had before.Seeing him in dad mode was one of her favorite things.
“I’d like to go on the record saying if they make me a grandmother before I’m forty, I’ll never forgive them.”
His laughter sparked hers.“Can you even imagine?”
“Absolutely not.SNLwould have a blast with that.”
“They’d be ruthless.Hopefully, they’ll wait a while before they have children.They’re still so young.”
“God, I hadn’t even thought about grandkids.This expedited parenthood thing isn’t for the faint of heart.”
“No kidding.”
“I hope Jameson and Cleo would approve of us,” Sam said.
“I’d like to think they would.If they’re watching, they’re seeing their babies being very well loved by our entire village.”
