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“Hey,” I whisper, and wait until she’s looking at me. “There’s no one watching you but me. It’s just us, right here, right now. Making memories.”
“From the moment I laid eyes on you, I’ve felt off-center. Like I need to get to know you for my world to be righted once again. I can’t explain it, even if I tried. All I know is that it’s not the chase, gorgeous, it’s you.”
“Who worries about you?”
“I like you, Larissa. I want to explore that, and she’s a part of you, a package deal, the icing on the cake so to speak.”
“I’m just taking care of my girls.”
“When did you know?” I ask him. “When did it hit you that Mom and I were what you wanted?”
“I knew the night I met her. I hadn’t met you yet, but you’re an extension of her, and I never stood a chance not to love either one of you.”
“I’m in deep...
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“What about me?” Paisley asks. “Did you miss me? I didn’t get a kiss,” she points out.
Careful not to wake them, I slide over and wrap my arms around both of them. Once I have them where they are meant to be, I’m able to fall asleep.
“I’m the last,” I tell her.
“What’s got you looking like you just hit a grand slam in the bottom of the ninth?”
But it’s time to let someone worry about you. So call me. Please,” he adds.
“I love that,” he says softly. “I love that the two of you are here and will be when the game is over.”
“Mommy, can East be my daddy?”
It may not be my blood running through her veins, but I couldn’t love her more if it were.”
Every fucking day is a celebration with the two of them in my life.
