I smiled, “Yeah, baby?”
“Would you and Alec become my mom and dad?”
I nodded, “Yes. But only if that’s what you want.”
Then he nodded, “and I would stay with you?”
I nodded, “Yes. You would stay with us until you were eighteen, then Alec and I would support whatever decision you wanted to make. You would be ours."
Then he bit his lip and asked, "Do you have any other children?”
I shook my head, “No. I can’t have children.”
He nodded, “Sorry.”
I smiled, “It’s okay. Because I found you.” I said, then tapped him on his little nose and watched him smile.
Then bent my neck and pressed a kiss on his forehead, and said, “Good night, baby. If you need us, we are right down the hall. Okay?”
He nodded, then cuddled up under his blankets.
On a mattress.
With a pillow.
As I exited his room and turned off the light, I smiled when I saw where Alec was sitting.
He had moved a chair to the hallway right outside Krispin’s door.
“You going to be there awhile?” I asked.
He nodded, “As long as he needs me here.”
I smiled, then I said, “I love you.”
He winked, “Love you, too.”
Then I kissed him softly.
‘Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.’
– Alec’s Secret Thoughts.
Chapter 18
Alec
I sat in that chair as Cassie walked down the hall to our room.
Then I closed my eyes.
Then I heard little feet on the floor.
I opened them and turned my head, just in time to see Krispin’s little face peeking around the door.
I winked, “Hey, little man.”
He asked, “Why are you sitting there?”
