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I’d live in the day. In the present. Because that was all we had for certain.
I looked from my son’s content, sleeping face to his father’s.
My husband blinked his eyes open.
Then he smiled at me.
And I grinned back.
“You okay?” he mouthed to me from across the room, trying to be quiet. There was a sleeping baby on his chest, and a sleeping grandma in the chair beside him.
I nodded and remembered the look on his face the first time he saw Tucker. The look of love on that man’s face made me feel things I’d never felt before.
It made me fall in love with him all over again.
I kept doing that—falling in love with Cash.
More and more every day.
And I knew that would continue because Cash Clemens was just that kind of man. He worked hard at building our marriage and our life.
So, so hard.
And I worked equally hard, staying in the moment and trying not to let my mind go to dark places.
But when it did—Cash was always there to pick me up and drag me out. Back into the land of the living.
“I love you,” I whispered to my husband. The most handsome man I’d ever met.
His smile widened. “I love you, too,” he said in a low voice.
After the nurse plopped Tucker on my chest, she said, “I bet you’re glad you won’t have to do that again for a while.”
The only thought that had immediately shot into my brain was, “I can’t wait to do that again.”
And it was true.
I really couldn’t.
I’d had a wonderful pregnancy.
Wasn’t sick for a minute.
I’d felt energized and full of life.
Even though labor had hit hard and fast—I’d handled it.
No.
I’d freaking owned it.
Right now, I felt like I was on top of the world.
Tomorrow, I might feel differently.
But today, at this very moment—I’d never been stronger.
I wanted to do that again.
