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Looking down at my little angel's sweet, angelic face I was in heaven. He was my world and being his mom was going to be the best thing I had ever done in my life. Pure love seeped from every pore as I watched him closely. Then I turned to Kace and what I saw on his face was a look I will never forget.
Longing.
“You did it, sweetheart,” he said.
“Wedid it,” I told him.
A smile split his face and he reached over and ever so softly ran one of his calloused fingers down the side of my little man’s face. The gesture warmed my heart and buried itself so deep it would never leave.
“Sir, we have to get your wife and baby to the hospital now,” the gentleman said.
Not wanting them to not let Kace come with us, I once again didn’t correct them and jumped before he could tell them he wasn’t my husband.
“He can ride with us right?” I asked, looking at the medic.
“Of course, ma’am.”
Then, my baby and I were being put onto a stretcher after they got me all covered up and were wheeling me out of the bedroom, Kace right behind them. As we rolled through the living room all my friends looked on, smiles on their sweet faces.
Alley touched my hand as I got to her. “We’ll see you at the hospital.”
“It’s a boy!” I blurted out, happy as a clam.
“Congratulations,” several voices said at once.
“Another boy?” Embry whined. “I like your baby, but now we are going to be outnumbered.”
The room erupted in laughter as my eyes scanned the other kids and realized she was right, but then Gyth was the one to really get everyone going.
“Looks like we better get busy making a little girl, Sunshine,” Gyth said to Summer, wagging his eyebrows up and down at her suggestively. She smacked his arm playfully and he leaned in and kissed her quickly.
“Oh yuck,” Embry signed dramatically. “Uncle Gyth is always stealing kisses from Auntie Summer.”
I couldn’t help but giggle and my heart warmed at this whole group that had been such a miracle to find.
“We need to get going,” Kace’s voice of reason chimed in. Poor guy didn’t sign up for all this and he had a worried look on his face.
The medics had paused but now had started moving again as they pushed me out the door. I heard Kace ask someone to grab some clothes for him at his place and stuff for me and bring it to the hospital. I had no clue who he had been talking to but our friends would come through.
Within minutes I was in the ambulance and Kace was jumping through the back doors to be at my side. Grabbing my hand we locked eyes and a sense of righteousness washed over me. I kept my gaze on him for a minute and then I glanced down at my baby boy.
I was so damn lucky to have him, but also Kace in my life. Both meant so much to me. And although I didn’t want to think about it that day of all days, what if Thad tried to take either of them from me?
My heart couldn’t handle something like that.
“Hey, only happy thoughts today, sweetheart,” Kace’s voice said, cutting through the noise in my head.
He always knew. Could read my mind like a psychic and it was crazy. But he was right. Looking back into his whiskey-brown eyes, I had a notion of what feeling drunk might feel like and I couldn’t look away, drinking in every emotion that passed through his gaze.
“Thank you. You were my strength.”
He shook his head like he couldn’t believe my words.
“Yes, you were. You were there for the both of us,” I told him, my sleeping angel curled in my arms.
“I’m just glad you trusted me.
“Always,” was what I told him.
