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“Forever?”
“As your mommy?” she asked, showing him the ring I put on her finger last night.
My cheeks hurt from smiling so hard. He blinked back happy tears and strapped his arms around her so tightly she coughed.
“Yes!” he cried out. After they hugged, he wiggled to be put down so he could run to me.
I caught him, closing my eyes as he wrapped me in a tight hug too. He squeezed me, sighing happily. “Thank you, Daddy.”
I didn’t lower him as he pulled back to face me. I smiled back at him, loving that toothy grin of his. “I wished and wished for this to come true. All my birthday candles. All the pennies I threw in the fountain downstairs. All the times you found an eyelash and blew it away.” He twisted until we both looked at Mia, smiling back at us.
“And my wish is coming true!”
“I know what you mean,” I confided in him. As I stared into the emerald gaze of the woman I loved, I thought back to how long I’d wanted to call her mine. I’d wanted her from the beginning, and finally, she was mine to keep for good.
No. Not just mine.Ours. She had accepted both of us. I was a package deal. She wasn’t acquiring only a husband. She was getting Jason as a son, too.
I glanced at my dad, seeing how happy he was, and I realized she was getting a father-in-law eager for more grandkids to spoil, too.
I couldn’t wait to see how our family would grow.