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“I’m not only here to make peace,” Hannah said after we sat silently for a while. “I’m here with a proposition.”
“What?” I asked, blinking.
Hannah nodded. “I have a parent with a child who needs particular attention, and after your experience as a nanny, you were requested by name.”
I shook my head. “I can’t do that,” I said. “You know I’m not a nanny.”
“The position isn’t quite for a nanny,” Hannah said.
I frowned. “What do you mean?”
Hannah took a tablet from her handbag and tapped her finger on the screen several times.
“Wanted,” she said. “A woman who loves my little boy as if he was her own, who can travel with him to the lands of his imagination, fight dragons and conquer lands with him, and show him the love of the mother he’s never had. Wanted, a homemaker who can breathe life into an empty space, make a house a home, fill the hallways with laughter, the bedrooms with smiles, and build a foundation on love.” Hannah glanced up at me as I stared at her. “Wanted…”
My front door opened, and Aaron walked in.
“Wanted,” he said. “A woman who will love me as much as I love her, a woman who will go on life’s adventures with me or stay home under the covers all day. A woman who can talk about everything or a woman I can be silent with. Wanted, a mother, a partner, a wife.”
I stared at Aaron. “What are you doing here?”
“I’m placing an ad for the woman of my dreams, didn’t you hear? I want you to fill the position if you’re available.”
Tears stung my eyes, and I looked at Hannah, who grinned from ear to ear.
“You told me your life was too complicated. You told me you couldn’t do this,” I accused. Tears rolled over my cheeks. “You told me you weren’t ready for this.”
“I know. I was wrong. I can’t do this without you. I don’t want to. I’m ready for this, more ready than I’ve ever been.”
“What about Sabrina? What about Ben’s mother?”
“Ben only needs one mother. Sabrina is gone. I only want you. We both do.”
I shook my head. I didn’t know what to say.
“I can’t do this. I can’t get hurt again, Aaron. I can’t––” I let out a trembling breath.
“I love you,” Aaron said. “I made a mistake letting you go. I made many mistakes, but I’m here to make it right and ask you if you’ll be mine. I don’t want to do this without you. Like I said, I have a position open, and I really want you to be the one to fill it.”
I glanced at Hannah, who nodded eagerly.
“You don’t even know him,” I blurted out, accusing her.
“I know love when I see it, Jade,” she said. “And after your video about love…”
Aaron came closer to me. “I’m sorry I hurt you. Let me make it right. I’ll spend a lifetime making it up to you if you’ll let me.”
I waited for the little voice in the back of my mind to protest, to tell me I was making a mistake. I waited for it to tell me I was better off alone, determined to listen to it this time.
It never came.
“I love you, too,” I whispered.
Aaron took another step closer to me. He wrapped me in his arms, and I melted against him when he did. It felt right. The way he looked at me was with so much love and affection. This couldn’t be wrong.
My heart and head finally agreed when he kissed me––this was where I belonged.
“I think I’m going to go,” Hannah said, clearing her throat.
