With all eyes on us, Jett said, “Baby Amelia Blu Adams, coming soon.”
I wasn’t sure where to look first. I’d asked Capri to dial Dusty in at this part and I knew she’d follow through. I wanted to see Gramps’s and her face both. Amelia was Gram’s name, and I knew it would touch Gramps that we were naming our baby girl after her.
My gaze went to him, and his eyes were brimming with tears, his hand over his mouth as emotions washed over his face. “Thank you,” he choked out.
Capri was then beside me, her phone in hand, and I looked at the screen to see Dusty with tears streaming down her cheeks. We’d given our baby girl the same middle name as our friend.
“I can’t believe you,” she managed to get out through her tears.
“You saved me once, and you’re our friend. We wanted to,” I told her.
We’d talk about it later with both Gramps and her, but right then, my husband pulled me into him for a hug. With Griffin still in his arms, I soaked in my amazing life.
I may not have started out with the best family, but family was what you made it sometimes.
And my family was perfect.
Chapter Fifty-Six
JETT
I held the most precious things in my life, right there in my arms.
My wife, my son—adoption official—and my baby girl.
Now, I just needed to marry my girl.
Again.
Chapter Fifty-Seven
PATIENCE/JETT
PATIENCE - THE NIGHT BEFORE THE CEREMONY
A noise jostled me from my semi-sleeping state.
I’d been having trouble relaxing enough to fully fall into a deep slumber. It was hard to be in bed without my husband once I’d gotten used to having him by my side each night.
The ladies and their silly rules.
We were already married yet they’d insisted he couldn’t see me the night before the wedding. They’d done this before, and it hadn’t always worked.
Another sound, this time I could pin it down to outside the window, had me turning in the bed and staring that way. Luckily, I’d left the bathroom light on and the door cracked so I wasn’t in complete darkness if I’d gotten up to pee—because let’s face it, I did that a lot now.
Soft tapping against the glass startled me, but then I heard his whispered voice.
“Sweetheart, let me in.”
My heart jolted with joy, and I stuck my tongue out at theladies, even if they couldn’t see me since everyone was home in their own beds.
Looks like your little plan didn’t work.
It’s a good thing Alley was at her own house, or she’d probably be guarding me with one of her legendary bats. I got out of bed, lifted the blinds, and my husband’s mesmerizing eyes stared back at me, glistening even in the dark night.
He popped the screen off as I pushed up the window, and my pulse raced with excitement as Jett tumbled into the room with a thump. I giggled, feeling like a teenager—something I never really felt I’d truly experienced. There was the boy I was in love with, sneaking in to see me.
Jett jumped to his feet, a triumphant smirk on his face.
