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“I knew you’d be here, Mommy.”
Her little voice. That little voice has changed. How did this happen? She sounded the same but also so different. It’s too much. I want to take a moment to make it all make sense, but I don’t want to let her go. I’m afraid if I let her go then she’s going to slip away again. She’s here. She’s with me. She’s real. I’m not imagining her. I’m not looking at some memory. If I were then Daire wouldn’t be here. He didn’t know about her. He didn’t know she existed. Him being here changes things. I want to know how this happened. So many questions.
A sob breaks free from me. I hear a sniffle then feel wetness on my shoulder.
“It’s okay, Baby Girl. I’m right here.”
I feel her shake her head before she pulls away. It’s then that I realize she was on my other shoulder. His hold on me tightens and I step closer to him. Jayla wraps her arms around the both of us. The familiar feel of a pressure takes over.
“He’s your familia, family, Nieta. Moonbeam, tell him. No mas secretos. No more secrets.”
It was the last thing she said before she told me she loved me. My legs give out as I recall the last time I heard her voice. I also remember why all of this hit so hard. Pain. I feel a sharp pain.
Daire is right there. He has me. He has both of us. I feel him lift me into his arms.
“I’ve got you, Blaze. I’ve got you both.”
That’s all I hear before I give in to the darkness. This time, I hope I remember everything. I don’t want to lose ...
Chapter 28
Jaxson
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Savannah, GA June 10– Saturday (cont.)
Panic. I’m fucking losing it. She fainted. It was too much. I’m an asshole. I should’ve known.
“Jaxson? Jaxson?”
I hear my name, but I’m too wrapped up in my thoughts to respond. She fainted. My little girl is wrapped around me as we wait. We’re waiting to see if this was too much, and her mother reverts or some other thing the doctors rambled off when I brought her in.
“Mr. Shaw? I can take her,” Dr. Embers offers but I can’t.
I’m not letting her go. No fucking way. She’s the only reason I’m still standing. The thing I feared happened. J.B. was afraid she did something wrong. She started to blame herself for what happened. She asked me if she’d held her mother too tightly. I had to reassure her and let her know that nothing she did made her mommy sick. Still, she cried. She told me she missed her mommy all this time.
“I don’t want her to go away again, Daddy. Please tell her to stay. Make her stay, Daddy.”
Fucking. Gutted.
I haven’t cried this much since they told me the news of what I thought was the worst thing that could ever happen to me. This is worse. This is a hell of a lot worse than that. No one could’ve prepared me for how protective I am of this little person. No one could’ve told how much I would open myself up to this little person with my eyes and her mother’s smile.
“Jaxson, have you heard anything yet?” Hope asks me.
