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“I’ll tell you what I’ve been thinking,” she said. “And truly, I think we’ll be okay. You know I’m not afraid to work hard. I just don’t know that my mother and father will want to take care of another baby, and that scares me. Daycare for one I can manage, but daycare for two? It will be expensive. And I don’t know that I’d want them split up.”
Sitting next to her, he could see she was worrying. “We’ll figure out baby care. For one thing, we’ll only need it three days a week. And if I’m working over a weekend, we’ll only need it one day.”
The simplicity of it, how he took what had worried her and resolved it in one minute, moved her to tears. “I should have confided in you right away. The childcare thing is what terrified me.”
“It will only be bad when I’m gone from home for three days,” he said. “Maybe we can get Caitlin to come over and help you out until the baby is a little older.”
“Maybe. That’s another thing. Telling Alice and Emmett. Ugh.”
“Ha! We’ll do it together,” he said reassuringly.
“He’s out cold,” she said, placing her glass on the table. “I’ll put him down, and we can do something about dinner.”
They went into the little alcove where she’d set up the nursery, and although the space was fine for one baby, it might be stretching it for two.
“It might be time for us to do something about buying that house I’ve been saving for.”
“That’s like a fantasy,” she said. “Are we planning on moving out of state?”
“No, we’re staying right here in San Diego County. It won’t be a mansion.”
“I don’t need that,” she said. “I just want to be with you and our family.”
He put his arm around her, pulling her close. “We’re a family.”
Back in the kitchen, they ate grilled cheese for dinner, forgetting about Perone’s. “What’s next, then?” she asked.
“We need to concentrate on a home. That’s my concern.”
“I feel like we should be saving money.”
“Do you feel like it enough to move in with Roberta and Big Mike?”
She slapped the table with her palm, laughing. “You’re not serious.”
“I’m dead serious. This place costs almost two grand a month. With utilities and everything we can save almost twenty thousand by the time the baby is born.”
“And their goes our intimate relationship.”
“My room is in back of that place. You saw how big it is, right? My parents will give us space.”
“Do they have anything to say about it?” she asked, teasing. “I mean, it is their house and all.”
“We’ll have to ask. But I’m sure they’ll be stoked.”
“Tony, let’s wait, okay? My rent is paid through September. I don’t want to tell anyone yet. It’s too early. Too much can happen.”
Hesitatingly, he placed his hand over her belly. “Oh. How sad. I never thought of that. I already have her sleeping in a crib next to Flynn.”
“Her? It might be another boy.”
“No, it’s a girl. Since you told me,girlhas been on my mind.”
“I’m so happy we work together.”
He reached for her hand again, kissing it like he always did. “I’m so happy, too.”
Chapter 6
