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“I will. I’ll fix everything.”
“It won’t happen overnight,” I warn her.There are years of pain that they need to work through.
“I know.” She nods in understanding.
I nod. “Then I think we will be just fine.” We both stand and I wonder if she’s going to hug me, but I don’t think either of us are ready for that.
“I’m going to fix my face, and then I’ll be right down.”
“Of course, I’ll give you some space,” I say as I make my way out of the room.
“Charley?” she calls after me, and I turn to face her. “Welcome to the family.” She gives me a small, genuine smile, and then she’s gone.
“So, you’re having lunch with my mother next week?” Will asks as he climbs into bed next to me.
Lord give me strength.“Indeed.”
“You going to tell me what that’s about?”
“We just had a…mother to mother talk.”
He nods. “I’m supposed to have lunch with her and my brother on Monday.”
“Ah, the weekly lunch.”
“They both want to talk to me.” He presses his lips to my temple. “Something tells me you had something to do with that.”
I turn my head to look at him and pucker my lips allowing him to kiss me. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
He chuckles. “It’s funny, you came to me because you needed help, you wanted change… and somehow you were the one to change me.” I turn around in his arms so that I can face him. “I had years of issues built up, and you’ve somehow slowly broke down all of them.”
“It’s amazing what love can do.” I smile, knowing that he did the same for me.
“Can you believe this time next year, we’ll have a baby?”
A smile finds my face immediately. “Do you want to know if it’s a boy or a girl?”
“Mmmm, no.” He shakes his head.
“Me either.” I giggle as I snuggle closer back to him.
“I can’t wait to marry you,” he whispers in my ear.
“So, no to eloping in Europe, right?”
“I suppose that’s up to you, and how lunch with my mother goes.” He raises an eyebrow at me and I roll my eyes.
“She seems to be coming around…” I trail off, “but I’ve got my eyes open.”
Two months later
“Careful!” I point as Will and Drew move boxes into the house. We leave for Europe in three days and for some crazy, unknown reason, we decided to move out of his townhouse before we left.
“Baby, get inside, it’s chilly out here.” Despite the movers we hired, Will and Drew are still moving a fair share of our stuff as well. We’d been moving since yesterday morning, and it finally seemed like there was light at the end of the tunnel. I look around the living room and there is shiteverywhere.I’d hired an interior decorator, that I’d be meeting with next month when we returned, to help furnish some of the rooms that I had no idea what to do with. Coming from a townhouse, to a large, five bedroom house, clearly called for much more furniture than we already had.And now we needed a nursery.
Hours later, Will and I are sitting on our bed, the only piece of furniture in the whole house that we assembled. “You know this is the only room of the house we didn’t christen when we were here?” he growls in my ear as I remember that we wanted to leave something sacred.
I bounce excitedly on our new future marital bed and grin. “Are you suggesting that we change that?”
