“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?”
court, a judge will see that Bailey has two loving and devoted parents, a dependable income, and
want to marry you more than anything, but I don’t want it to be because you feel you have to in order
You and I are going to have a
fear I’d been harboring starts to
“What? Why?” she says.
“You’ll see.”
In the pocket is where I hid the ring I bought for Remy. I’ve had it for a month now. I wanted to plan some huge elaborate proposal, get all our friends and family to
it behind my back. Then I stand in front of her. I kiss her lips then get down on one knee. I pull out the box from behind my back. Remy puts
soul mate and I want to spend the rest of my life with you and our children. I want to build a life and
out, I slip the ring on her finger. It fits perfectly as I knew it would. I’d taken her
says and wraps her arms around my neck. I know she’s looking at it over my shoulder, because she keeps saying, “It’s so
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