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“I thought I’d catch you at Walmart. Your mom was supposed to get you there, and then I’d meet you there. But then shit happened, and I thought I wouldn’t be able to make it…” He paused, letting me know that something big had happened on the way home. Something that’d caused him to slow down in his process of getting to me.
“You better not have stopped to change some woman’s tire like you did last time.” I poked him in the chest. Which wasn’t very impressive when I was all but snuggled into said chest. “This time, someone better have died.”
He chuckled. “Actually, worse. A couple of cows fell out on the freeway. I stopped to get them all tucked into a hastily erected cattle pen. Which is why I’m about to say what I’m about to say next.”
I waited, not sure I was going to like what he had to say next.
“We have to go see the boys tonight,” he said. “Because if we don’t, then they’ll know that I’m home. And you know that I like to surprise them.”
It’d become a game to him and his ‘boys.’ Him surprising them when he got home.
This was his fifth ‘deployment’ if you could call it that. More like very long mission that’d taken him away from us for months and months.
This time, he’d been away for seven long ones.
Anyway, he liked to surprise his friends, just like he liked to surprise me.
Meaning, he’d have to go see them play tonight to shock them.
“You know they’re both starting tonight, right?” I asked.
“Yes,” he confirmed, grinning wickedly.
“And you know the game has been sold out forever, right?” I pushed.
Because it had. I’d tried to get tickets, because I liked to support my boys as much as I could since they did the same for me, yet I’d been unable to acquire tickets.
I could practically hear the laughter in his voice as he said, “Of course.”
“You have a plan,” I guessed.
“I have a plan.”
• • •
“We’re going to go see the boys,” he declared, holding up the tickets an hour later. “They have a Christmas Eve game…is that okay?”
Anything was okay with him home.Anything.
“Of course, it’s okay,” I promised.
I was tired, exhausted, swollen, and ready to give birth any second.
But if it meant seeing him smile, and seeing Titus and Slone smile, I’d do just about anything.
He wrapped me up in a hug so big, I couldn’t stop myself from leaning into him.
He sighed. “I’ve missed the hell out of you, Perry.”
I squeezed his waist and pressed against him as best as I could. Which sadly wasn’t all that great now due to the girth of my belly. “I love you, too.”
CHAPTER 2
Help someone when they’re in trouble, and they remember you when they’re in trouble again.
-Life Lesson
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