Sweet Laurel Falls (31 page)
“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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ISBN: 9781459241220
Copyright © 2012 by RaeAnne Thayne
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