“I like you,” I whisper, “and I’m terrified you’ll get bored of us.”
Those warm brown eyes shift to look at me head on. “If you could do anything in the world, what would it be?”
“Right now?”
“No. With your life. In general.”
I blink. “I—I don’t know.”
“Lifelong dreams?”
“Being a mother.”
He aims a tender smile at Bash, then back at me. “Anything else?”
There is.
There’s something else I’ve always wanted, but I shake my head.
He lifts his brows.
I shake my head again. “I don’t want you to give me things just because you can.”
That doesn’t ruffle his feathers in the least.
Actually, I’m not sureanythingshort of a bear climbing into a hot tub with us or a chicken scaring the crap out of him at seven in the morning could ruffle his feathers.
“If I could do anything in the world,” he says, holding eye contact without blinking, “I’d take you and Bash to Razzle Dazzle Village to watch him ride the kiddie roller coaster.”
Razzle Dazzle Village has been on mynot a fucking chancelist for about two and a half years. But I’ve told Laney and Sabrina more than once that as soon as Bash is old enough to appreciate it, I want to take him to Universal Studios or Disneyland.
I’ve even been saving for it. A little here, a little there, knowing it’ll take a few more years before he fully enjoys and remembers the experience.
At least.
“If I could do anything in the world, I’d buy you Sabrina’s grandparents’ house and build you a bigger chicken coop and install a maybe not as extreme hot tub in the backyard.”
I squeak a small protest. “Who told you?”
Truth? I shouldn’t have any interest in that house. It’s also Chandler’s grandparents’ house.
But I loved the house before I even knew who he was. And I have so many more memories there of Laney and Sabrina and me than I do of Chandler and me.
He rarely took me there.
Sabrina did far more often.
“You did,” Jonas says. “In Fiji.”
“You arenot—”
“Yet,” he finishes. Smugly. “I’m not buying you a houseyet.”
I narrow my eyes at him. “Would that makeyouhappy?”
“I hear it needs a lot of work.”
Sabrina’s family has used it as a vacation rental property since her grandmother passed away and her grandpa moved into a retirement community. And I’m guessing Grey or Theo told Jonas it’s still in the family. Or possibly the triplets.
