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“She wanted to stay home and I thought that just for this first visit, that was probably a good idea. We can introduce her to Carly later. This needed to be just us, I think, as it’s my parent’s first time with their granddaughter.”
Maggie nodded. “I understand,” she said and smiled back.
Their meal stretched on a while, but eventually his parents said goodbye to their granddaughter and as Maggie was hugging them goodbye, Keith handed her a card. “This is from us to you and to our granddaughter, to kind of chip in for all that we have missed and all that you’ve had to do on your own. I know how hard it can be. Please just accept it, and use it for whatever you want,” he said with a smile and then hugged her warmly and let her go.
She nodded and took the card, slipping it into her purse, and then Jonathon took her and Carly to the park, and they settled their daughter into her stroller and walked with her along the side of the creek, through sunlit trees and warm summer air.
“How do you feel it went with my parents?” Jonathon asked curiously.
“I think it was amazing!” Maggie said with a grin. “It went much better than I expected. They’re really wonderful people and I can see why they were trying to protect you and why they might have thought that the timing for Carly might have been off, but I think that’s all in the past now, and we can focus on the future. We can build our lives together somehow from here forward.” She shook her head and smiled as a tear touched her eye.
“It felt so good today, Jonathon; it felt like we were a family. Like we weren’t alone anymore, and it wasn’t Carly and I against the world, it was all of us together as a family, and it hasn’t felt like that... ever. I hadn’t realized how much we needed it, but we have, and now we have it. It’s so surreal,” she said trying to hold her emotions in.
He stopped walking and turned to look at her, seeing her as she tried to deal with it, and he reached his arms around her and held her close to him. “We are going to do this together, all of us. You won’t do it alone, I can promise you that. They will be there for both of you, just as I will be, no matter what. We are a family now, because Carly has made all of us a family, and we will go forward with that, all of her life.”
She smiled at him and looked up at him through her wet eyelashes. “Thank you so much,” she told him, holding him tightly. “That means so much to me.”
His heart began to beat rapidly and he found himself gazing into her sea green eyes. He found himself getting lost in the same beauty that he had the night they made Carly. He could not fathom the depth and strength of the woman he was holding, and he could not explain the fire coursing through him that seemed to draw him nearer to her, like a magnet, pulling him to what he could not turn away from.
She felt it too, as she looked at him, and she didn’t want to turn away from it. His arms felt so good wrapped around her, holding her to his chest, to his swiftly beating heart; it felt like nothing was ever going to go wrong in her life again. She looked up into his eyes... his blue eyes that were a replica of his daughter’s eyes, and when he leaned closer to her, slowly nearing her mouth, she did not turn away, but lifted her chin to him, closing her eyes and letting the soft warmth of his mouth against hers sweep her away as it had the night she met him.
Jonathon felt like he was in a dream as he pressed his lips to Maggie’s, kissing her softly, holding her to him as if there was nothing in the world but the two of them and their daughter beside them. His arms were closed tightly around her and his hands squeezed her gently as his tender kiss began to heat and he parted her lips with his, tasting her and suddenly feeling the fires that had engulfed them on their first night together. She kissed him back just as intimately as he kissed her; slow and sensual, rediscovering
Maggie nodded. “I understand,” she said and smiled back.
Their meal stretched on a while, but eventually his parents said goodbye to their granddaughter and as Maggie was hugging them goodbye, Keith handed her a card. “This is from us to you and to our granddaughter, to kind of chip in for all that we have missed and all that you’ve had to do on your own. I know how hard it can be. Please just accept it, and use it for whatever you want,” he said with a smile and then hugged her warmly and let her go.
She nodded and took the card, slipping it into her purse, and then Jonathon took her and Carly to the park, and they settled their daughter into her stroller and walked with her along the side of the creek, through sunlit trees and warm summer air.
“How do you feel it went with my parents?” Jonathon asked curiously.
“I think it was amazing!” Maggie said with a grin. “It went much better than I expected. They’re really wonderful people and I can see why they were trying to protect you and why they might have thought that the timing for Carly might have been off, but I think that’s all in the past now, and we can focus on the future. We can build our lives together somehow from here forward.” She shook her head and smiled as a tear touched her eye.
“It felt so good today, Jonathon; it felt like we were a family. Like we weren’t alone anymore, and it wasn’t Carly and I against the world, it was all of us together as a family, and it hasn’t felt like that... ever. I hadn’t realized how much we needed it, but we have, and now we have it. It’s so surreal,” she said trying to hold her emotions in.
He stopped walking and turned to look at her, seeing her as she tried to deal with it, and he reached his arms around her and held her close to him. “We are going to do this together, all of us. You won’t do it alone, I can promise you that. They will be there for both of you, just as I will be, no matter what. We are a family now, because Carly has made all of us a family, and we will go forward with that, all of her life.”
She smiled at him and looked up at him through her wet eyelashes. “Thank you so much,” she told him, holding him tightly. “That means so much to me.”
His heart began to beat rapidly and he found himself gazing into her sea green eyes. He found himself getting lost in the same beauty that he had the night they made Carly. He could not fathom the depth and strength of the woman he was holding, and he could not explain the fire coursing through him that seemed to draw him nearer to her, like a magnet, pulling him to what he could not turn away from.
She felt it too, as she looked at him, and she didn’t want to turn away from it. His arms felt so good wrapped around her, holding her to his chest, to his swiftly beating heart; it felt like nothing was ever going to go wrong in her life again. She looked up into his eyes... his blue eyes that were a replica of his daughter’s eyes, and when he leaned closer to her, slowly nearing her mouth, she did not turn away, but lifted her chin to him, closing her eyes and letting the soft warmth of his mouth against hers sweep her away as it had the night she met him.
Jonathon felt like he was in a dream as he pressed his lips to Maggie’s, kissing her softly, holding her to him as if there was nothing in the world but the two of them and their daughter beside them. His arms were closed tightly around her and his hands squeezed her gently as his tender kiss began to heat and he parted her lips with his, tasting her and suddenly feeling the fires that had engulfed them on their first night together. She kissed him back just as intimately as he kissed her; slow and sensual, rediscovering
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