Epilogue One
Five Years Later
Cady
Sitting in the bleachers at my old high school, I’m hoarse from cheering. I know Seamus’s team is going to win state this year in football. What an honor since this is his first-year teaching and as coach.
After we married, he started volunteering at the local school for sports, and with the JROTC. The following semester he went back to school to start a degree in History and Physical Education while I was finishing mine. He also mentors other soldiers with injuries.
Once my mother was out of the picture I started making real friends in town. I also volunteer at the Kennedy Shelter for Vets and made a real friend in the woman who funded it, Maura Alexander.
I do most of my work from home which makes it so much easier since our first child was born almost nine months to the date after we married.
Pádraig is the sweetest child. Even now he’s helping the mother in front of us entertain her fussy baby.
Honestly, he’s like a guiding star for kids.
Which is a good thing because Martha, our second child, is due any day.
Pádraig is a lot like his father, Mr. Mom. They both feel things deeply, care and watch out for everyone. And love with their whole hearts and souls.
Umm, there’s that cramp again. Pretty sure we’ll be heading to the hospital from here. I shoot Maura a text. She laughingly texts back. I told you so.