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“You think that’ll happen?”
Nora raised an eyebrow. “I know so.”
“What would you say to that?”
“I’m not moving full-time, but we could negotiate living part of the year somewhere else. Maybe winter in the city, get us away from the mountains when the snow’s bad. Not forever, but we have a couple of years.”
I grinned. “A couple of years before what?”
Her face flushed deep red and she ducked behind her hat. “Before we add to our family.”
“I’m not getting another dog,” I teased, coaxing the confession out of her.
“You know full well I wasn’t talking about a dog. Trashcan would never forgive us,” she said fiercely before softening. “Besides, what would we name a second dog?”
“Garbage truck? Compactor? Recycling Center?”
She sighed dramatically. “Maybe it’s a little premature to talk about kids with you.”
“I’m much better at baby names: Pacifier, Diaper Face, Milk Drinker.”
“Alright, kids are off the table indefinitely.”
“Don’t joke about that, Nora,” I said, taking the textbook out of her hand and setting it back on the pile as I leaned closer. “I promise I’ll let you take the lead when it comes to naming our kids. Something like Ferdinand.”
She wrinkled her nose as I brushed my nose over hers. “Not Ferdinand either.”
“What if it suits him?”
“What if it’s a girl?”
“Depends on whether she looks like a Ferdinand or not, I suppose,” I whispered, my lips against hers.
“You’re impossible.”
“Yet you married me. Twice.”
She set her hand against my chest. “I’m not a quick learner.”
“And I love that about you. You wouldn't have accepted my proposal if you passed college the first time.”
“And if you’d just asked me out first, we would have only married once.”
“Honestly, Nora,” I said. “I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
