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I smiled, “Yeah, baby?”

“Would you and Alec become my mom and dad?”

I nodded, “Yes. But only if that’s what you want.”

Then he nodded, “and I would stay with you?”

I nodded, “Yes. You would stay with us until you were eighteen, then Alec and I would support whatever decision you wanted to make. You would be ours."

Then he bit his lip and asked, "Do you have any other children?”

I shook my head, “No. I can’t have children.”

He nodded, “Sorry.”

I smiled, “It’s okay. Because I found you.” I said, then tapped him on his little nose and watched him smile.

Then bent my neck and pressed a kiss on his forehead, and said, “Good night, baby. If you need us, we are right down the hall. Okay?”

He nodded, then cuddled up under his blankets.

On a mattress.

With a pillow.

As I exited his room and turned off the light, I smiled when I saw where Alec was sitting.

He had moved a chair to the hallway right outside Krispin’s door.

“You going to be there awhile?” I asked.

He nodded, “As long as he needs me here.”

I smiled, then I said, “I love you.”

He winked, “Love you, too.”

Then I kissed him softly.

‘Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.’

– Alec’s Secret Thoughts.

Chapter 18

Alec

I sat in that chair as Cassie walked down the hall to our room.

Then I closed my eyes.

Then I heard little feet on the floor.

I opened them and turned my head, just in time to see Krispin’s little face peeking around the door.

I winked, “Hey, little man.”

He asked, “Why are you sitting there?”