I didn’t have a clue what was going to happen, but Landon had been beyond amazing. If a court date was set, then we would fight until the end.
If we failed, Jett had promised to run away with me. Not that I’d let him, but I still couldn’t get over the fact that he was dead serious with the offer.
When we emerged from the meeting, my eyes locked on Jett, and I ran straight into his open arms. I soaked up the feel of his body pressed against mine, letting it calm my racing heart. That had been intense sitting in there with the enemy, and also watching Landon work, even for a short time.
“I’m right here, sweetheart. I’ve got?—”
Voices echoed from behind me, stealing our moment, and then I heard Sloane’s whiny voice. “What is going on? It can’t be over yet; it barely started!”
We needed to get out of there. Removing myself from my husband's embrace, I grabbed his hand and yanked him toward the elevator. Thankfully, Landon and Alley had already hit the call button, and the door opened just in time.
After stepping into the cab, I refused to turn around andcuddled back into Jett. I didn’t miss the woman who grated on my nerves when she spoke yet again.
“You need to handle this; they…”
Thankfully the doors closed, cutting off the remainder of whatever she was going on about.
Now that it was just the four of us, I turned toward Landon. “You were freaking brilliant!” I told him.
Alley looked up at him, a huge smile on her face, and then back at me. “I told you he’d handle it for you.”
I let out a cross between a scoff and a laugh. “Handle it? I don’t think that’s what you call what just happened in there. He annihilated them.”
“I was just doing my job,” Landon replied modestly.
Now I really scoffed. “That was a whole lot more than that. I don’t know how to thank you.”
“No thanks necessary, really.”
That was so far from the truth. He was representing me at the friend rate of a big fat zero, and the compassion he had for me during this whole ordeal was wonderful.
I rolled my eyes just as the doors opened but began telling Alley and Jett the details of just how phenomenal Landon had been. By the time we reached the cars, I’d finished my story.
“You aresogetting some tonight,” Alley told her husband who I swear blushed. “Maybe a little courtroom role play is in order.”
Yup, Landon was definitely blushing while I was giggling, and Jett let out a deep bark of laughter. Taking pity on Landon, I broke in and thanked him again—which he protested once more—and then we said our goodbyes.
Once the pair had driven away, I looked at Jett. I wanted to ask him about the medal, but I didn’t think it was the time or place. He was obviously sensitive about it. So instead, I asked…
“Can we go pick upourson now?”
His smile was blinding. “Yeah, let’s go pick upourson,” he emphasized, knowing just how much that one word,our,meant to me.
My heart fluttered with love.
It was hard to believe sometimes that this was my life.
After picking up Griffin from Gramps and Ruby, the three of us had dinner at Old Spaghetti Factory before heading home. We brought dessert with us, made a huge fort in the front room, and watched the original Jumanji movie.
I glanced down at the sweet boy sound asleep between Jett and me as the credits for the movie rolled across the screen. Griffin had almost made it to the end, but fatigue took over in the last twenty minutes of the show.
As I brushed his hair back from his face, I looked up over his head. My eyes met my husband’s, and my heart fluttered with an abundance of love. They were mine, and it was unfathomable to think that I could ever lose either of them.
Griffin didn’t belong with Chaz; he was ours. Then my mind wandered to the sorrow and pain I felt when I thought I might have lost Jett. When he’d been missing, I tried to think positive, but it was hard. Then, when he came back, I wasn’t sure he was going to truly let me back into his life.
That thinking brought up something else. Jett may be trying to work through everything, but he was still holding back. He wasn’t opening up with me or his family completely. Or was it just me? Was I the only one who didn’t know about the medal he’d received?
Taking a deep breath, I decided to just ask but kept my voice soft. I didn’t want to wake Griffin, but I also wanted my husband to know I wasn’t mad at him.
