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“We want to take care of her. To marry her and have babies with her.” Flynn adds.
“We want to be a part of your family and we want you both to be a part of ours.” I finish.
Adeline thinks over our answer for a minute before she turns to Aspen, who is standing next to me with tears in her eyes looking up at the two of us. I lean down and brush a kiss across her lips, wiping her tears away when a few slip from her eyes.
“Good answer.” Adeline says, drawing our eyes back to hers.
She has a few tears in her eyes too and Aspen pulls away from me to go over to her. She sits on the edge of her hospital bed and grabs her hand in hers.
“Roman and I have been thinking about it, and well, you’ll probably want to be together while you recover and we have all this extra space and we were wondering if you both would like to move in with us? We can be there to help with whatever you need and all get to know each other a little better.” Flynn finishes in a rush.
I hold my breath as the girls look at each other, having some sort of silent conversation with their eyes. Finally, they turn back to us and I relax when I see they both have smiles stretched across their faces.
“Sounds good, roomies.” Adeline says and I smile as Aspen laughs at her friend.
The nurse comes back in and tells us that visiting hours are over and Adeline needs to get some rest. We pull Aspen out with us, promising Adeline that we would all be back tomorrow morning as soon as visiting hours started again and that we would bring donuts.
Aspen tries to argue to stay and spend the night with her friend but Adeline waves us out and I can see that she’s struggling to keep her eyes open long enough for us to leave. We drag Aspen out and text Jack to meet us out front. We’re bringing our girl home.
SEVENTEEN
Flynn
I holdthe door open as Roman carries the last of the girls’ boxes in. Adeline is finally out of the hospital and the girls have been laying on the couch pretending to order us around all morning. I just smile as I hear them giggle as they tease Roman.
“Oh, I don’t know if I like those boxes there. What do you think Aspen?”
“No, you’re right. I think they would look much better in that corner.” Our girl says, pointing to the opposite corner.
“Mmm. Yes, that would really tie the room together.” Adeline says as she pretends to look at the boxes with a critical eye.
“You guys know the boxes aren’t staying, right? That eventually you’ll need to unpack the boxes and then we can break them down.” Roman says.
“I kind of like them there. Maybe we should never unpack and just leave it like that.” Aspen says.
Roman and I shake our heads but the truth is, if boxes everywhere really made Aspen happy, then we would do it in a heartbeat. We would do anything for our girl. Roman walks into the kitchen to get a bottle of water and I trail after him.
“Did you get it?” I ask.
“Yeah.” He says, pulling the velvet jeweler’s box out of his pocket.
He flips the lid, revealing a sparkling emerald cut ring. We picked it out a week ago but we had to have it sized and it wasn’t ready until today.
“Tonight?” I confirm, looking at Roman.
He nods at me as the biggest grin stretches across his face.
“Oh, boys!” The girls sing-song from the other room and I just laugh and shake my head as I walk back into the living room to see what they need.
* * *
“Goodnight Adeline.”Aspen whispers as she backs out of her room.
“She fell asleep?” I ask as I close the door behind her.
“Yeah, she’s still getting tired pretty easily.”
“The doctor said that was normal. I’m sure she’ll get her strength back soon.” I try to reassure her.
