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Chapter Seventeen
Mason
Watchingthe love of my life give birth to my baby girl was amazing. Gross, but amazing. The moment she was out, it was like my whole world changed. Finally, everything was falling into place.
I had a daughter.
The moment I held that little girl in my arms, I knew where my heart was. Something I gave away long ago, had grown into this beautiful baby. I knew I would end up being wrapped around her finger worse than I was her mommy’s.
I held the baby while the doctors got Lennox taken care of and cleaned up. I fed her a bottle and was afraid she would break just from burping her. She was so tiny in my hands, so fragile. After Lennox was cleaned up and ready to go, I placed the baby in her arms and gazed down at my girls. My whole world was in one bed.
Alissa, Dane, Lennox’s dad, and Kathryn all came in at the same time.
“Let me see my new granddaughter,” Kathryn said pushing everyone aside to see the baby.
“Look how beautiful. What’s her name?” she asked taking her from Lennox’s arms.
We looked at one another and he gave me a nod.
“Her name is Emma, after my mom,” I announced.
“Emma Paige Reynolds. Paige after grandma.” Lennox looked at her dad.
“That’s a beautiful name,” he said wiping a tear from his eye.
Everyone stayed for most of the day passing Emma around and taking turns feeding her. Finally everyone said goodbye and left us to be alone. I laid down next to Lennox and watched baby Emma sleep in her arms.
“You never put the crib together,” she said causing Emma to jump.
“Shh, don’t worry. The crib has been put together for weeks.”
“But you said…”
“I know what I said. There’s a reason I made you promise to stay out of the nursery. The whole room is done. I wanted to surprise you. Everything is taken care of so get some rest,” I told her before kissing her on the forehead.
Lennox smiled and handed over Emma. I took the baby from her and moved to the chair so she could get some sleep. I felt like I had everything. I had my beautiful baby girl wrapped in my arms with her mama resting next to us. There was only one thing left to do, and that was to make it official. We needed to get married.
Lennox was releasedthe next day. Emma laid in the cradle while we packed our bags, waiting for the discharge papers.
“I can’t believe this,” Lennox said as she loaded the diaper bag.
“What?” I was leaning over Emma watching her sleep, but turned around to see Lennox’s worried expression.
“These people are just going to let us walk out of here with a baby. We have no idea what we’re doing. Are they crazy?”
I laughed. “We will learn as she does. How hard can it be? She’s just a little baby. Hold her, feed her, change her. That’s it.”
She took a deep breath. “Okay, there’s only one of her and two of us. We can do this.”
The nurse came in and handed us the discharge papers. Lennox sat down in the wheelchair with the baby while I went to pull the Jeep around. There was one thing that I hadn’t gotten around to doing yet, installing the carseat.
How hard could it be? I’ve damn near built a whole house, I can buckle in a carseat.
I pulled the Jeep around to the front door and pulled the carseat out to read the directions. After spending twenty minutes fighting the thing to get it in, the damn thing broke into two pieces.
“I think I broke it,” I said holding a piece in each hand.
“It’s supposed to do that. Give it to me.” Lennox handed me the baby.
