her house.
Without a second thought, Connor reaches into his pocket and hands Hailey a dollar, and she smiles gleefully and runs off to play. Connor pulls Jake in for a hug and congratulates him.
“Okay, first of all, what the hell did we miss? We were only gone for two days! We had to come home early because Maryanne had morning sickness which we learned yesterday is really all day sickness. As much as she loves us, it was too much for her.”
“Maryanne is having a baby? That’s fantastic news!”
Jess nods.
“It really is. She was so worried she wouldn’t be able to get pregnant since she’s almost forty. We’re both really excited. I finally get a little cousin and she’ll be able to play with my kids.”
“She?” Kate questions with a laugh. “She just found out, so I highly doubt the sex is known yet.”
Jess flips her hair and rolls her eyes. “But I know, Kate, and that’s all that matters.”
“So where did you guys buy a house?” Jess asks, turning her attention back to me.
“About halfway between here and Mike’s house. It’s across the street from the park and it’s perfect.”
“You bought the park house? You lucky bi— I mean, girl. Sorry, but I’m not paying Hailey. I’d rather watch my words. It’s better to get in the habit, anyway. When are you moving in?”
“Fourteen days or less,” Jake says, coming up behind me and wrapping his arms around me to rest on my belly.
“How the heck did you pull that off? No, wait… never mind. I sense a Houston checkbook at work here. I’m familiar with that process. Connor has it down to a science.”
“And you love me all the more for it,” he calls out loudly from the couch, waking Zayden. Jake releases me and picks up his nephew. Looking at the two of them together is like looking into the future. I hope Jaxson gets the Houston good looks like Zayden. He looks just like his daddy and his uncle.
“You’ve got the look,” Misty says as she comes up next to me.
“What look is that?”
“The one that shows you falling deeper in love with your husband because you know he’s going to be an amazing father.”
“I’m not sure how much deeper I can fall but it seems like every day lately I’m falling more and more in love with him. Can I ask you a question?”
“Shoot,” she says and I nod my head toward the door to the back patio. After I sit on the swing and get Hope adjusted on my lap, I pin Misty with my eyes.
“Why won’t you give Mike an answer? I know it’s probably none of my business, but you’re killing him.”
“I’m scared,” she confesses.
“Of what? Misty, he adores you and your children.” Hope reaches for Misty’s face and pulls her close for a kiss, a slobbery one. Misty laughs and kisses her back and then wipes her face.
“At first, I just wanted to get to know him again and after he found out about Hailey, things started moving so quickly. Then, in the blink of an eye, I was pregnant with Grant. He’s an amazing father and he loves me, I know he does, but sometimes I wonder…”
“If he’ll leave you?”
She nods and begins whispering, “This is going to sound so stupid because in my heart I know it’s not true, but what if him and Kate decide they made a mistake? Where will that leave me? At least if we’re not married it won’t be as hard.”
So she’s not handling the Mike/Kate relationship as well as I thought. Interesting. We need to fix this.
“First of all, if you think a piece of paper is going to make it less hard to break up, you’re fooling yourself. Love doesn’t live on paper; it lives in your heart.”
Her shoulders slump and she whispers, “I know.”
“And secondly, that won’t happen. As someone who has heard confessions from both Mike and Kate, I can assure you they are never going to be more than friends.”
“Do you really think so?”
“I do. He loves you. Mike told Jake even if he and Kate had gotten back together, once you came back into his
Without a second thought, Connor reaches into his pocket and hands Hailey a dollar, and she smiles gleefully and runs off to play. Connor pulls Jake in for a hug and congratulates him.
“Okay, first of all, what the hell did we miss? We were only gone for two days! We had to come home early because Maryanne had morning sickness which we learned yesterday is really all day sickness. As much as she loves us, it was too much for her.”
“Maryanne is having a baby? That’s fantastic news!”
Jess nods.
“It really is. She was so worried she wouldn’t be able to get pregnant since she’s almost forty. We’re both really excited. I finally get a little cousin and she’ll be able to play with my kids.”
“She?” Kate questions with a laugh. “She just found out, so I highly doubt the sex is known yet.”
Jess flips her hair and rolls her eyes. “But I know, Kate, and that’s all that matters.”
“So where did you guys buy a house?” Jess asks, turning her attention back to me.
“About halfway between here and Mike’s house. It’s across the street from the park and it’s perfect.”
“You bought the park house? You lucky bi— I mean, girl. Sorry, but I’m not paying Hailey. I’d rather watch my words. It’s better to get in the habit, anyway. When are you moving in?”
“Fourteen days or less,” Jake says, coming up behind me and wrapping his arms around me to rest on my belly.
“How the heck did you pull that off? No, wait… never mind. I sense a Houston checkbook at work here. I’m familiar with that process. Connor has it down to a science.”
“And you love me all the more for it,” he calls out loudly from the couch, waking Zayden. Jake releases me and picks up his nephew. Looking at the two of them together is like looking into the future. I hope Jaxson gets the Houston good looks like Zayden. He looks just like his daddy and his uncle.
“You’ve got the look,” Misty says as she comes up next to me.
“What look is that?”
“The one that shows you falling deeper in love with your husband because you know he’s going to be an amazing father.”
“I’m not sure how much deeper I can fall but it seems like every day lately I’m falling more and more in love with him. Can I ask you a question?”
“Shoot,” she says and I nod my head toward the door to the back patio. After I sit on the swing and get Hope adjusted on my lap, I pin Misty with my eyes.
“Why won’t you give Mike an answer? I know it’s probably none of my business, but you’re killing him.”
“I’m scared,” she confesses.
“Of what? Misty, he adores you and your children.” Hope reaches for Misty’s face and pulls her close for a kiss, a slobbery one. Misty laughs and kisses her back and then wipes her face.
“At first, I just wanted to get to know him again and after he found out about Hailey, things started moving so quickly. Then, in the blink of an eye, I was pregnant with Grant. He’s an amazing father and he loves me, I know he does, but sometimes I wonder…”
“If he’ll leave you?”
She nods and begins whispering, “This is going to sound so stupid because in my heart I know it’s not true, but what if him and Kate decide they made a mistake? Where will that leave me? At least if we’re not married it won’t be as hard.”
So she’s not handling the Mike/Kate relationship as well as I thought. Interesting. We need to fix this.
“First of all, if you think a piece of paper is going to make it less hard to break up, you’re fooling yourself. Love doesn’t live on paper; it lives in your heart.”
Her shoulders slump and she whispers, “I know.”
“And secondly, that won’t happen. As someone who has heard confessions from both Mike and Kate, I can assure you they are never going to be more than friends.”
“Do you really think so?”
“I do. He loves you. Mike told Jake even if he and Kate had gotten back together, once you came back into his
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