“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?”

and that way when you go to court, a judge will see that Bailey has two loving and devoted parents, a dependable

marry you more than anything,

all. I love you too. I love Bailey. You and I are going to have a child. There’s nothing

starts to

“What? Why?” she says.

“You’ll see.”

go into the bedroom and into the closet where I find an old suit jacket that doesn’t fit me anymore in the back of the closet. 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 pull it off, but

stand in front of her. I kiss her lips then get down on one knee. I pull out the box

and I want to spend the rest of my life with you and our children. I want

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 it was the right

her arms around my neck. I know

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