Epilogue
One year later…
“I misplaced our daughter ,” Jax said, coming to the open door of Bree’s office. “I sent her to change out of her school clothes, but she didn’t come back downstairs for her snack.”
“Have you found her?” Bree started to rise.
“Yes. And it’s going to be a late bedtime.”
“She’s sleeping? I thought she was over her cold.” Sofia had gone back to preschool today, seeming like her energetic self.
“It was a nice day so we walked home. I think that tired her out.” He jerked his head in invitation, a smile teasing his lips.
She followed him to Aldo’s room, where their son was swaddled and fast asleep in his crib.
Sofia was beside him, one bent arm pillowing her head. The other was across his tiny body. They’d asked her to forgo hugs and kisses while she had the sniffles, and she had, but with the embargo lifted, she seemed to have decided snuggles were allowed again. She loved her baby brother even more than they had hoped, to the point that she’d been angry with Bree when she hadn’t let him sleep in her bed with her.
“I can bring him to you when he needs his milk,” Sofia had said with great annoyance.
Bree sighed with the euphoria that rose at moments like this, when the world was so perfect, her eyes glossed with happy tears.
“Thank you for this.” Jax settled his arm around her. “I really am the luckiest man on earth.”
She glanced up at him. “Feel like getting luckier?”
“Always.”
They hurried to their room before their children woke up.
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