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I laugh. “Barely.”
“She’ll be fine. Won’t you, Phoebe?”
Phoebe pats Flynn’s cheek gently. Such a sweet little girl.
“See, she promises she’ll be careful.”
I take my daughter from him and pop her onto the mat carefully. “Thank goodness you’re not too wiggly yet, hm?”
She laughs as I jostle her foot.
“You hungry?” Flynn asks.
“Starving.”
Flynn starts to dole out the contents of the picnic basket. “How does it feel?”
I don’t look away from Phoebe. Her eyes are just as captivating as her father’s. “How does what feel?”
“Being back here. How does it feel?”
I glance at Flynn. “I don’t think it’s quite sunk in yet.”
He smiles, eyes dropping down toward the rim of his glasses. “Do you feel different?”
“Of course. Don’t you?”
Flynn shakes his head. “Everythingisdifferent, but I don’t…” He looks at me harder. “I don’t feel different.”
Before Phoebe was born, I had a libido that could not be tamed. Flynn had to fight to keep up. Since her birth, it’s something we have both had to work toward again. That was part of the reason for this trip. Of course, I’m not ready to leave Phoebe behind with anyone, but embraced the opportunity to remember where all of this beautiful mess came from.
It’s reignited something in both of us.
“You know I love you, right?”
“Of course,” I smile. “I love you, too.”
I’ve never ever gotten enough of hearing him say those three words. I swear, the day after we found out about the baby, we said it back and forth over a hundred times.
“That hasn’t changed, Flynn,” I say softly. I glance at Phoebe. She’s already sun drunk and dozing off. “It gets stronger every day.”
“Good. Good.” Flynn goes back to shuffling through the picnic basket. I notice his jaw tightening and the muscles in his neck straining.
“Is everything okay?”
“Hm?”
“Flynn?”
His eyes dart to mine and then away just as quickly. “I’m fine! Everything’s fine.”
I frown. “Flynn. You know I can tell when you’re lying.”
“Yeah, it’s annoying.”
I watch him for a long moment. “You going to tell me, or am I going to have to force it out of you.”
His eyebrows jump. “How do you plan on doing that?”
