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“Her?” I ask.

Anna nods. “Her.”

“She’s been asking about me?”

“She has.”

I clench my chest. “Be still, my heart.”

“I think she has a little crush on you.”

“Can you blame her, though?” I laugh, feeling warmth all the way through my toes. “Who knew the way to a child’s heart was through a decent breakfast burrito?”

“Who knew?” She chuckles.

I look at Anna. “Now, a woman’s, on the other hand… that’s a little trickier than a burrito.”

She smiles. “Well, keep doing what you’re doing,” she says. “You’ll make progress.”

Charlotte looks up from her book. Her eyes flick right to us and her smile is instantaneous. She waves, her little fingers waging back and forth at me.

“Oh, man,” I say, waving right back. “My knees. They’re failing me.”

Anna laughs and latches onto my arm. “Come on.”

“Wait, wait…” I pull her back to me. “I have to ask you a question.”

“What?”

I inhale, taking in the moment. “Kiss me,” I say.

She bites her lip. “That’s not a question — and what about PDA? You could be arrested.”

I cup her face. “I don’t care. I’m a bad guy.”

Anna laughs as I kiss her. Her arms wrap around my neck and her lips part to kiss me back. I break away to rest my forehead on hers and I fall for her even more. I fall for both of them. The whole damn Silva family.

“Let’s go home,” she says, “Jake.”

I nod as my heart pounds faster.

EPILOGUE

ANNA

Three Months Later

Iwake up slowly, feeling a tick in the back of my mind. There was something I needed to do this morning, but I’m not quite awake enough to remember⁠—

I sit up, and my lips twitch into a smile.

It’s baby-making day.

I roll over, feeling along the covers toward Jake’s side of the bed… but it’s gone cold.

I look at the bathroom. The door is closed, but a faint light shines in from the bottom.

I hop out of bed and walk over to slide the door open.