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EPILOGUE
AUBREY
“Whoever said babies were exhausting, wasn’t kidding.”
Lily shrugged. “You’re old now.”
My mouth dropped open.
“Older! I meant you’re older now.”
It didn’t take long for Dylan—in his words—to knock me up. I’m not sure if we conceived on the wall or the next month that he pretty much lived inside me.
We named her Constance, it meant always.
I was a high-risk pregnancy because of my age, but thank God I didn’t have any complications. This only encouraged Dylan to want to make more. We talked about getting married a few times during my pregnancy, but honestly, we had waited that long, and the last thing I wanted was to walk down the aisle with a big belly. Constance was almost five-months-old now and still no proposal or ring on my finger.
Giselle was attending Wilmington University because she wanted to stay close to Mason, who was a year younger than her. They officially started dating after prom much to Dylan’s disapproval, but she still lived at home with us, so that he approved of.
He said he loved having all his girls under his roof. It made him sleep better at night. We bought a house shortly after I found out I was pregnant, right on the beach. We literally lived within walking distance from Lucas and Alex, and that alone made Giselle want to stay at home. Of course, she didn’t tell her Daddy that.
“How’s my girl?” he cooed over the baby monitor, and Lily and I grinned at each other.
“Daddy missed you today. Let’s not tell Mama that I woke you up.”
I shook my head.
“Jacob did that with Riley and Christian. Get used to it. They don’t understand that you shouldn’t wake up a sleeping baby.”
Not even a second later we heard her cries.
“Told you,” she added. “I’m going to get out of your hair. Have fun with that.”
I chuckled. Dylan had just gotten home from work. He went back to the police force, and as much as I worried about him, I knew it was a part of him. He promised he wouldn’t take on hard cases now that he was a Detective III. So far it hadn’t been that bad. He was home every night for dinner and weekends. He reassured me he spent most of the time in his office. He was assigned this case a few months ago, and I could tell it was wearing him down.
“Oh, by the way. Have you seen Austin lately?”
“Yeah. He came over the other day,” I replied.
“Okay.”
“Why?”
“Jacob mentioned something about him and Briggs officially breaking up.”
“They’ve been together and breaking up for years. I stopped trying to keep up with them along time ago.”
She nodded. “Good point. I’ll see you later. Give Constance a kiss for me and Giselle my love.”
Lily hugged me and left.
“Shhh… shhh… baby girl, feel my heart. Feel Daddy’s heart. Shhh…”
Just like that she whimpered for a few seconds and stopped crying.
“Unbelievable,” I said to myself as I made my way into our bedroom.
I stopped working once I got pregnant and that’s what ultimately made Dylan want to start back at the force again. I wanted to stay home with Constance and be the mother I never got to be with Giselle. She was a great older sister and jumped right on board with Dylan on giving her more siblings. My doctor said women were having babies well into their fifties now and my thirty-nine years of age wasn’t as much of a big deal as it used to be.
