by Lee Heaven
I sighed at the sight of my two girls and me. Both of them were so grown up and so beautiful. Both were also taller than me. Even with my five-inch heels on both my girls were a few inches taller. I was blessed with the short gene and so glad they took after their fathers in the height department.
I can feel the heat of his body before I even saw him. Even in our “old age” Decker makes me feel like the first day I met him. I stepped back and left my two girls to fuss over each other. Turning around I finally saw him. It’s not hard to spot him even with all the people in the room. He towers over everyone looking like the god that he is.
He spotted me and he smiles that panty dropping smile he has. Fifteen years later it still has that same affect on me. I crossed the room and he wrapped me in his arms bending to lay a kiss on me.
“Gross. When will you two grow up and stop doing that?” a voice said from behind Decker.
“Son, you will learn someday, when you find a woman who makes every fiber of your body hum it will never stop no matter how old you are,” Decker said to our son Ely James.
The day we found out we were having a boy Decker turned to me and told me that he would have no argument about it we were naming him after Ely. If I didn’t already love this man enough I fell even harder when he told me that.
Decker had never tried to replace Ely in my life. He never told me I should just get past it and it was silly to love a man after being dead for so long. He never told me not to do something or feel something and still after all these years let me just be me. For my birthday one year he had called Erica and had gotten a picture from her then had it blown up and framed. He had it hung in my office at home.
Ely looked like me except he had his father’s hazel-green eyes and height. Even at fourteen he was almost the same height as Decker. I often teased Decker that soon he was going to be shorter than his kids. He didn’t like that, said it would make it hard to punish the kids when they were misbehaving if he couldn’t scare them with his height.
“I never thought I would ever be standing at any of my children’s wedding,” I said as we stood there watching our kids joke around with each other.
“Baby, we had a rough first year and a half, but, we were blessed with three wonderful children.” Decker has considered Josie his own since the second we walked into his apartment all those years ago. But I know he was really thinking about my pregnancy with the twins.
After my initial hospitalization I had a very rough pregnancy. I was rushed into an emergency c-section at twenty-nine weeks. I had pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes, blood clots in my legs and the anemia had caused a heart murmur which lead to a small heart attack.
While in a medically induced coma, Decker had to make the heart breaking decision to have the c-section done. Two days later when I was brought out I had to reassure him that he had made the right decision for not only my health but the health of the twins. I have never held that against him. I couldn’t our children were happy, healthy, and alive.
Decker retired from playing five years after we were married. We spent the next year raising our kids and working at his foundation. Then Decker got the call, Yankees head manager. We didn’t even need to discuss it. I was telling him to take the job before he was even hanging the phone up.
Eight out of those nine years Decker has taken the Yankees to the World Series. Six out of those eight years they won the championship and were able to ride that canyon of heroes parade the city love so much.
Now I watch as Decker walked Josie down the aisle and gave her away. I couldn’t imagine a better life. As for those hounds outside, well I’ll always be Jensen’s Angel to them. Don’t tell anyone but Decker agrees with them. He believes I was sent to save him. I believe he was sent to save me and that is exactly what he did.
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Note From the Author
Part of this story was pulled straight from life. Some look at my life and say ‘no way can someone live through all that’ or even “no way, you’re making all this up’. But it is true, not everyone’s life is perfect and some of us have it even harder than others. While not this entire story is true, especially marrying a Yankee, there is a lot that is. All names have been changed to protect those in my life.
I am a self-published author. I do not have the privilege of having my work go through the very rigorous screening that an editor would give it. To hire one on my own would be an expense to large. Mistakes will be found in my story as you read and I ask you to forgive my mistakes. I write the way I talk and my grammar is not always to par. While I do read through my work numerous times, sometimes it is hard to spot your mistakes as words tend to blur together. I ask that if you find a mistake please email me at [email protected] and let me know of it. I will work to fix it. If you love my story please also leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads for me. Check out my Facebook and Goodreads page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lee-Heaven and http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18326185-broken-angel
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Playlist
Living Dead Girl - Rob Zombie
(Everything I do) I do It For You - Bryan Adams
Rolling in the deep - Adele
Single Ladies - Beyonce
Titanim - David Guetta
Locked Out Of Heaven - Bruno Mars
Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy) - Big & Rich
Animal - Nickleback
Now That I Know - Matt Caplan
American Slang - The Gaslight Anthem
Glitter In The Air - Pink
Marry You - Bruno Mars
Love Is A Battlefield - Pat Benatar
Every Breath You Take - Sting
My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion
Don't Cha - Pussy Cat Dolls
White Wedding - Billy Idol
Hall Of Fame - The Script
Sully My Days - Matt Caplan
The Woman I Love - Jason Mraz
Halo - Beyonce