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I get in the back seat, and Henry closes the car door, and a text comes through.
I look at my phone, and it’s from Janine.
Janine: He doesn’t know I’m sending you this text. I know you are upset with Kalum and his reaction but there is something waiting for you at the house. Please give him a chance.
Me: I’m sorry for ignoring you. I just miss him.
Janine: I know.
Henry parks in front of the house, and he heads inside with the food, and I stop when I see it. The sun is high in the sky and the blur of tears makes the light around me look like a kaleidoscope of colors.
The jeep.
The jeep I wanted to buy from Lane all those years ago is fully restored to its full glory with big mud tires and the convertible soft top. Memories from my mother telling me about her adventures in her jeep come flooding back. Lane never told me what he did with it, and I never asked since we moved from Spencer. My fingers grip the black handle of the door, and I open it. The smell of refurbished leather hits me, and I look at the note and the football jersey inside it.
I notice it’s a Spencer football jersey, and I pick it up and inhale the smell. Kalum’s cologne and his scent. I take the old notebook paper and read it.
Even through loss, there are still amazing and beautiful things in this life. The best part of mine was meeting and falling in love with you. I hope you love your gift and would love to be part of your journey. I love you, Aura. Happy eighteenth birthday.
Love,
# 68 Kalum St. Claire
I choke on a sob as his words from the other night in the hotel room by the harbor come back to me. He bought it. He kept it all this time. I take my coat, thankful for the glimpse of the sun even if the clouds are covering it and pull his jersey over my head and run into the house.
I gasp. Tears are streaming down my face, and my two favorite boys are waiting for me, both of them down on one knee. Lane Jr. with flowers and Kalum with a black velvet box. There is a huge sign made out of construction paper colored with crayons that reads.
WILL YOU MARRY ME?
“Yes! Oh God. Yes!”
I run and kneel down on the floor and hug them both, giving them kisses on both their faces.
Camila comes forward from the kitchen with happy tears streaming down her face. “The box.” She motions toward the black box Kalum is holding out in his hand.
“It’s okay, Momma. It’s really pretty.”
Kalum opens the box, and the most beautiful ring I have ever laid eyes on sparkles in the light. It is big but delicate, with three giant stones.
“One is your past, one is your present, and one is for your future. The two woven diamond bands on the ring are for our children.” He looks at Lane and then at my stomach. “Lane, are you ready to be a big brother?”
“I’m going to be the best,” Lane says. “I promise, Momma.”
“You are already the best. Both of you,” I say softly.
I stand with them and Kalum hugs us both. The meaning of the ring so profound with so much love and understanding. How could I be so lucky to have fallen in love with two boys who would do anything for me?
Epilogue
Aura
Iwatchmyhusbandwith both one-year-old Kalum Jr. and Lane Jr. as they play in the pool at our home in Spencer. We bought a new home to spend time closer to Exie and Dex. Camila is still like a mother to me, watching over our sons as if they were her own grandchildren. I treat her not like a babysitter or housekeeper, but like a mother. She helps me, and I help her, and if it wasn’t for her, I would have never met the most wonderful men in my life. Kalum and Lane. Since marrying Kalum and becoming Mrs. St. Claire, Lane’s parents dismissed the case against me. Exie had the board outvote them to be removed from the company, leaving Exie as CEO, and they quietly retired. My business has taken off online, and I am happy to be married to Kalum.
You can’t help falling in love. I know I couldn’t. I happened to fall in love with the love of my life and then my second. Kalum was my first love, and then Lane became my second. Now Kalum will be my last love. How is that possible? Sometimes, time isn’t ready when you meet the one you are destined to spend the rest of your life with. We move on, and if that person is your true love and destined to be your last, their love for you is so great, that they will love you no matter what happens this year or the next. They will even let you go because your happiness means more to them than their own. I will always love Lane and will fulfill his dream. He will always be part of me, and the best part is that his legacy will live on through Lane Jr.
“Are you ready, Mrs. St. Claire?” Kalum asks, the water sluicing down his sexy, tatted frame.
“Yes, my love.”
I hold a towel and grab our beautiful baby boy as his chubby arms reach out for me. He is wet with his swim trunks.
Lane Jr. comes out of the pool and dries himself with a towel. “Are you ready?” Lane says with his face lit up with excitement.
“Yes, baby,” I say with a smile.
Today is Lane Jr.’s birthday, and all of our family and friends are ready to wish him a happy seventh birthday with his first track built for Lane to practice with his Kid Karts in the back of our property. His great love is to race cars, just like his father, and Kalum caters to Lane Jr.’s every whim in both love and understanding of his best friend. Two boys fell in love with me at the same time when I was just a girl and I’m the luckiest woman to have felt it because some people can live their whole life and never find it. There are no mistakes or regrets. There is a moment in time for everything, happiness, memories and I have them both. Now and forever.
The End.
