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I nodded, overwhelmed with emotion, and reached out with shaking hands to take the scissors and cut.
A tear trickled down Marcie’s cheek as she relaxed her head against the pillow and looked at me, smiling. A nurse placed the baby—our son—on her chest and covered him with a warm blanket as we huddled together, our first moments as a family.
“I love you so much,” I said, my voice thick with unshed tears.
I reached out and touched my son’s tiny fingers as he flexed and grasped. He squinted in the bright light of his new world as we explored his hands, his hair and the tiny feet that kicked gently against Marcie’s now-empty belly.
“I love both of you,” she said tiredly. “I can’t believe he’s here.”
I leaned forward and gently kissed her cheek, feeling happier than I’d ever felt in my life. “Will you marry me?”
Her eyes widened in surprise. “You want to get married? I thought you didn’t want to get married again. I was worried to ask about it.”
On her chest, our son started to root, and a nurse stepped in to help her latch him onto her nipple. We both watched in quiet wonder as he sleepily nursed.
“I wanted to marry you ages ago,” I said, pushing back stray strands of hair that had fallen in her face. “I didn’t want you to think I was only proposing because you were pregnant, though.”
She laughed. “Well, I’m not pregnant anymore, but onlyjust.”
I kissed her one more time and placed a hand against my son’s back as he nursed. “So, will you marry me?” I asked again, since she hadn’t given me an answer.
In her arms, underneath my supporting hand, our son sighed against his mother’s breast. She dropped a tearful kiss on his forehead and then turned to me with a watery smile.
“Yes,” she said, placing a soft hand on my cheek. “Yes, Denton Sawyer, I’ll marry you.”
Profound relief and joy rushed through me, that I’d been given this second chance at love.
Marcie was right about me and marriage—I’d thought it wasn’t in the cards for me again. But then I met a brilliant and wild young woman who showed me her bottomless, beautiful heart. Who made a family with me. It took me a long time to get to that point, but at that moment with Marcie, as we huddled together with our brand-new child and basked in the magic of our love for each other, I knew that it was worth the wait.
