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“Thomas Colin,” he said. “Right? Zane told me he got a nephew and was thrilled Ryder would have a cousin close to his age.”
“Yes. They are going to call him Colin though. They’ve already got Tom and Thomas, so this will be less confusing for sure. I think it’s nice to name your child after yourself, but it’s good to give them their own identity too.”
“There is no one in my family I’d want to honor by doing that to my kid,” he said.
He grabbed cheese from the fridge and then opened the bag, pulled the oven door and started to sprinkle it on top of the pasta.
“Use the whole bag,” she said. “Don’t be stingy.”
He laughed and dumped the whole bag on. “What about you?” he asked. “Anyone you’d want to honor? I know you were close with your grandmother.”
“I was. I’d love to honor her that way with a middle name. Her name was Jane. That’s a nice middle name that goes with a lot. But I’m a long way off of thinking of baby names. Don’t worry about that.”
“I’m not worried,” he said.
“My mother keeps saying she wants grandkids. Or she did until she found out I was in a relationship.” She started to laugh. “Now she never says a word.”
Just one more thing that would keep her here and not moving back home in her mother’s small mind. It didn’t matter how many times she told her mother she had no intention of moving back home anyway.
“Sorry about that,” he said.
She laughed even harder. “Don’t be. I should be thanking you. It’s not you and you know it. Don’t ever think that. You know my brothers like you.”
Gavin and Noah almost always asked about Luke when she talked to them. It surprised her but pleased her at the same time.
Her father was good with it all too.
Just her mother that was stubborn.
Heather moved to the cabinet and got down the dishes to put on the island while he pulled the dinner out and set it down with all the cheese ooey gooey and melty.
“Can you grab me a water with yours?” he asked.
“I sure can,” she said, bringing two of them out of the fridge and then sitting down to eat with him. “Do you find this homey like me?”
“I suppose,” he said, grinning. “As you know, you’re the first and only person I’ve had this with.”
“And I like it,” she said. “But again, don’t feel like I’m putting pressure on you for more.”
“I can handle pressure well,” he said.
“I know that,” she said. They ate their dinner and cleaned up. She was just getting ready to grab his hand and pull him into his bedroom when his phone rang.
“Shit,” he said.
“What?” she asked.
“Work. Hang on. Remington,” he said when he answered. “Yeah. Where? I’m not that far out. I’ll be there in less than twenty minutes.”
“You need to go in?” she asked. “I didn’t know you were on call?”
“I took the last few weeks of the month from someone,” he said. “But it doesn’t matter. They are calling all...umm.”
“Snipers,” she said. “They are calling in all snipers for this? What’s going on? Can you say?”
He was rushing to his room and she was on his heels. His clothes were coming off and his uniform on. He hit the safe that he had there and put in a code, then pulled out a briefcase. She knew that was his sniper rifle. She’d seen enough TV shows to know.
“Yes, snipers,” he said. “Obviously.” There was more tactical gear he was grabbing in the closet she hadn’t seen before. She didn’t like this at all.
