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“He slept through the night again.”
“I’ll miss you today,” he murmured in her ear. “This being away from each other is getting harder and harder for me.”
“We’ll be together tonight. I’ll be home as soon as I can. You know, we could ask Big Mike to bring the camper back, and we could live here in the parking lot.”
They burst out laughing at the same time.
“I’m laughing, but I wonder. It’s something to think about.”
“It might be kind of hard with a new baby,” she said softly. “Maybe when we get into our own house, it won’t be so bad. We don’t have much privacy at Roberta and Big Mike’s.”
“Yeah, I’m not sure how much longer this will work.”
“Patience, patience,” she said, kissing him again. “I’d better get in there. Be careful. The roads are slick. We had a little rain last night.”
He watched her enter the garage, and a pang of sadness flowed over him, panicking him.
“Bridget, wait up,” he called.
She walked through the door again with a questioning look on her face. “What’s wrong?”
“I love you so much,” he said, pulling her to him again. “I just want you to know that. Be careful out there today.”
“I will. Get some sleep and call me when you get up.”
“I can sleep tonight. I’ll be with Flynn, so call me when you get a break.”
Arriving home shortly after seven thirty, Roberta greeted him at the door with Flynn in her arms.
“Here’s your daddy,” she said.
“Thanks, Ma, I’ll take him.”
“I don’t mind, honey, I really don’t. Get some sleep.”
“That’s okay. You do enough for us.”
Finding out he was going to be a father had sprung Tony into action. As soon as Bridget had given Tony the go-ahead, he’d asked his parents if Bridget and the baby could move in with them. They were sitting around the dinner table, and the others had left.
Big Mike looked confused. “She’s got her own apartment, Tony. Why would she want to live here? And if you really want to be with her, we’ll deal with it. Move in together.”
“Well, it’s a little more complicated than that,” he said sheepishly. “I don’t even know where to begin.”
“She’s pregnant,” Roberta said.
The men looked at her quizzically.
“And how did you find that out?” Tony asked, dumbfounded.
“I just knew. Your body language when you’re together, it transcends intimacy. The way you look at her, everyone around you can tell you’re in love with each other. It’s a little unsettling.”
Big Mike barked out a laugh. “I see it, too. But not the way a woman does. You look like you want to jump her when you’re together.”
“Honest to God, Mike, you are a piece of work,” Roberta said, contemptuous. “You don’t have to say everything that comes into your mind.”
Tony was laughing, listening to his parents. “If it’s that obvious, I’d better work on it. I don’t want to disrespect her.”
“Are you going to get married?”
