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I was about to scoot back, allow her to think it over when she opened her palm.
“Pen.”
A tiny cut opened in my heart as I registered what she’d said.
Swallowing around the lump in my throat, I cleared the blockage.
“Take a few days, think it over.”
How had this boiled down to me hoping she’d choose her kids…my kids.
Her palm slapped against the table, the metal making a sound.
“Don’t need to…I’ll sign it if you can promise me, it’ll reduce my sentence.”
“I already had it cleared with the judge…but you should still—”
“Then let me sign.”
With a heavy heart, I glanced back at the guard by the door.
“Your lawyer has to be present…”
She shook her head and opened her palm again.
“Just have the guard come in and I’ll tell them you’re my lawyer.”
Fuck, this wasn’t how I thought it would go. Liam told me she would sign, not to get my hopes up that she would choose the girls. He told me she never would.
Still, this hurt on a level I wasn’t expecting.
The guard came in, and they handed the pen over to Lacey.
She signed the papers, releasing her rights for Maddy, Seraphina and Mila, once she was done, she handed the pen back to the guard.
“Nice doing business with ya.” She said happily before telling the guard she was ready to go.
I hung back in my chair and rubbed my hand over my tiny bump. We found out four months ago that I was pregnant…and at first, it was terrifying but seeing Liam’s response was something that would live inside me forever. Then the way we’d told the girls.
We went to a make-your-own pizza place in downtown Portland, then let each girl make their own pizzas. When we grabbed a small to-go box, we had it where when they opened the lid they found the ultrasound image inside. The comment bubble above the baby’s head said, “Hi big sisters.”
They are already discussing whose room the baby will live in. I smiled at the memory but came back to the moment.
I could never imagine in a thousand lifetimes what sort of person could just walk away from their kids, but I also understood there was a different world that Lacey had grown up in. A different world she existed in and that might make a difference in my perspective.
Perhaps.
But maybe she was just a selfish bitch, and it was as simple as that.
Regardless, we’d never have to worry about her trying to take us to court again. At least not with any levity. All legal recourse she had to her kids were now void.
* * *
I drove home,trying to shed the strange sensation clouding my heart over Lacey’s decision. I wasn’t really paying attention as I pulled into the garage. I grabbed the folder and headed inside mostly in a fog but as soon as I cleared the laundry room, a group of people jumped out from the kitchen, screaming, “Surprise!”
A gasp caught in my throat as I finally registered all the glitter.
Oh my gosh.
