“But that woman has been MIA for months. We have a home. Bailey has her own room and her things are here. She would be so scared going and living with a stranger.”

The clenching in my stomach gets worse imagining how scared my child would be with a woman she hardly knows. Enough time has passed that I don’t think Bailey would even recognize her own mother.

“I know, but Karen and I are both single parents. Everyone always sides with the mother.”

“Unless you can provide you have a more stable home,” Remy says eagerly. “Two parents in a loving home is better than one, right?”

“What are you saying?”

“Marry me,” she says.

Surprise cuts my words off. I don’t know what to say other than, “Marry you?”

will see that Bailey has two loving and devoted parents, a dependable income, and

that’s ever happened to me, and I want to marry you more than anything, but I don’t want

I are

been harboring starts to fade.

“What? Why?” she says.

“You’ll see.”

in the back of the closet. In the pocket is where I hid the ring I

knee. I pull

of my life with you and our children. I want to build a life and a

at the same time. Holding her hand out, I slip the ring on her finger. It fits perfectly as I knew it would. I’d taken her mom with me to go shopping for it. We’d taken Remy’s high school graduation ring with us to make sure

says and wraps her arms around my neck. I know she’s looking at it over my

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