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We’re so much better together than we are separate.
“Thirdly.” There’s a thirdly? He pauses for a short moment, his gaze roaming my features, and then he tucks a strand of my hair behind my ear. “There is absolutely nothing you could do or say or anything that could happen that’d make me embarrassed to be your husband.” He shakes his head and repeats, “Nothing.”
MY BABIES
“We did fine without you,” Connor agrees with him. “But we also did better with you. Just like Lo and Lily do better with all of us, and you and Daisy do too. All of our children benefit from the love and support of family.” Translation: you’re my family, Ryke.
Today, I’ve fallen in deeper love with these people. No matter which direction we fucking move, we’ll all still be there.
“How’d you get so smart?” “Mommy,” he says proudly. I laugh once into a smile, choked up for a second. Just overwhelmed by my love for Lily, and she’s not even here.
Slowly but carefully, she interlaces my fingers with hers, nothing sexual about the act. For a brief moment, I feel our teenage years—Lily and Lo, Lo and Lily—best friends instead of lovers. Where touch carries the depth and lifeline of every soulful and anguished emotion.
Loren might not have been a Calloway sister, but he’s been more of a brother to me than any other man in my life.
Lo turned to me that day and said, “You and me—we raise superheroes.”
Rose is Catwoman to Connor’s Batman. This is a historic moment. Let me digest.
“One year is a blip in our lifetime, Lo,” she whispers. “You’ve been through worse. You can take a horrible year. I know you can.”
“The entire universe,” I affirm. “Your worth isn’t dictated by the number of friends you have. You can have zero friends and still be the most amazing, spectacular person in the whole galaxy. You want to know why?”
We speak of moving mountains, but sometimes people can completely rotate the world, just so someone else can land upright on their feet.
