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Laughing, I collapsed onto his strong, hard chest and said, “Having this baby terrifies me.”
Which it shouldn’t. But seriously, having another kid like the one I already had…that was terrifying.
“Why?” he asked, sounding worried now, too.
“Because I’m already spread really thin with work and our child. How will I add another to the mix?” I asked.
He cupped my head and wrapped his other arm around my back before saying, “I know we’ll make it, baby.”
I knew we would, too. In fact, that wasn’t really what I was worried about at all.
“What if I don’t love him or her like I love our Jelly Bean?” I asked, using the first name we gave our child when he was still in my womb.
That’s when Ford laughed.
He rolled then pinned me to the bed, his face a mask of happiness as he said, “You’re delusional if you think you won’t love this next one as much as you love Chevy. Trust me when I say, you have a hard time not loving something. Remember that cat you found in the dumpster you insisted we have? You fell in love with it before we’d even made it to the truck.”
“Yeah, but…”
He interrupted me to continue. “And that stupid dog you found outside the police station. You cried like a baby when you had to give him back to his owner.”
That dog was the best dog ever.
And ridiculously cute while simultaneously being the dumbest animal on the planet.
“Okay…” I started, but again he interrupted me.
“And that little girl who was so hungry they found behind a Jack in the Box eating out of their dumpster?” I continued. “We had her in our home for three days before her godfather was found. You wanted to adopt her, and almost got into an altercation with the man who was legally bound to keep her.”
I sighed. “Okay, so I love easily.”
He gave me an incredulous look, as if I wasn’t quite grasping what he was trying to say.
“You’ll love this kid more than me,” he pointed out. “And let’s not pretend like you wouldn’t sell me for a dollar if it meant keeping Chevy happy.”
He had a point.
“You’d do the same,” I pointed out.
He twirled a piece of my hair around my finger. “It terrifies me that one day my dad will die, and I won’t have him anymore.”
I didn’t want to be the bearer of bad news but…it was going to happen. It was just the way of life. But it didn’t have to happen any time soon.
“One day it’s going to happen, darling.” I sighed. “At least, I hope it happens way in the future. I don’t want you to leave me until I’m so old I can’t enjoy you anymore.”
His grin was wicked as he drew his thumbs underneath the bags in my eyes.
Just as he’d swiped once, his phone lit with a text.
“Who is it?” I asked him.
“Banner,” he murmured. “I’ll be back in a bit.”
At my nod, he placed a small kiss on my lips then left, leaving me with no other choice but to go to sleep.
Sleep that came easily, despite all the news of the day.
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