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There’s something about Lily that makes all the terrible parts of me seem irrelevant. That makes a bad day momentary and a good one infinite. It’s love like this that’s worth living for.
Lo shields our baby’s ears playfully. “No cursing, Lily Martha Calloway.” I crinkle my nose. “I don’t like my full name.” “Don’t worry,” he says with that teasing look, “I’m going to make you a Hale soon.”
“Put me down, Richard,” she snaps. “I’ll put you down if you can tell me the first twenty digits of pi,” he says casually, only about ten feet from the Escalade. “3.14-I-fucking-hate-you,” she practically screams. I’m surprised she hasn’t bitten him yet. “Incorrect.”
“I pray that your narcissism isn’t seeping into our daughter.” “Narcissism can’t seep. It’s not tangible, and who are you praying to, darling?” “Any god that will tell me why I procreated with you.” He grins fully, a blinding million-dollar one. “Because I love you just as you love me.” Rose presses her lips together, but she shifts closer to him. “That wasn’t meant for you to prove that you’re a god, Richard.”
“Sometimes the person we think we’ll become is the person we already are, and the person we truly become is the person we least expect.”
“If someone ever asks how long we’ve spent together, I’d say for as long as my mind stretches back. I can’t tell you the day that I fell in love with you because there wasn’t a single day that I didn’t.” My voice shakes with more joy than I’ve ever known. “You have the purest parts of my heart, and I’m certain that in every alternate universe, I’m always, always in love with you.”
Lily and I—we may have started our relationship as pretend. But for as long as I can remember, our love has always been real.
