Sweet Laurel Falls
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He wrapped his arms around her, and she felt some of the tension seep away. “Do you want to know a secret? The idea of adding to our family isn’t completely foreign to me. I’m embarrassed to admit that adopting Sage’s baby never even occurred to me, but lately I’ve caught myself wondering what it would be like to have another child with you. Harry’s right. We’re both young. Young enough, anyway. Plenty of couples don’t even get started until their late-thirties. I guess I was waiting to see if you might be thinking along the same lines, or if you figured you had done your time raising young children.”
“I love being a mother. If things had gone differently in my life, I would have wanted at least one or two more.”
After her divorce, she had just accepted that part of her life was gone. The idea of shopping now for a crib and buying baby clothes and having to rearrange her work demands to accommodate a new life was both overwhelming and intoxicating.
“I never would have pressured you,” Jack assured her. “But I can think of nothing more beautiful and right than raising a son together.”
She caught her breath, dizzy at how quickly the pathway of her life had suddenly veered off in a completely different direction than she’d started on that very morning. Outside the window, the rest of the world was carrying on as usual, the citizens of Hope’s Crossing busy helping each other, while in here a new life was about to enter the world and a family was shifting and changing to welcome it.
She looked out the window at a beautiful June afternoon, rich with promise. A lush, wild rosebush bloomed there, its flowers a vivid pink in the sunlight. Somehow she wasn’t at all surprised to see a flicker of orange amid the pink as a monarch butterfly flitted from flower to flower.
Another message from Layla? Maybe. She had seen butterflies everywhere these past few months, but perhaps that was only because she was finally ready to notice them again.
She reached for Jack’s hand, this wonderful man she had once loved and lost, then found again.
She smiled at him, her heart nearly bursting with happiness. “Let’s go have a baby.”
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Copyright © 2012 by RaeAnne Thayne
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