Page 120 of Love Complicated

Can I admit this to them? We’ve already confused them enough. “How do you guys feel about Ridge?”

Cash looks to Grady, who finally smiles and hands me the folded-up piece of paper in his hand.

“What’s this?”

They smile, again. “Happy birthday, Mommy.”

Opening it, I cry, like I did when I found out I was pregnant and knew my life was changing forever. I cry because this is similar. Though it’s not a birthday card, it’s more. It’s so much more. My life is changing forever.

On my twenty-seventh birthday, they asked another man to date their mom. Not because they were forced to accept a change in their life, but because they asked him to be a part of it.

And Ridge said yes.

Through tears, I pull them into my arms, hugging their heads to my chest until they squirm away, laughing, giggling, being kids again.

Wiping the tears away, I look them in the eye. “Do you want Ridge in your life?”

They both nod. “We do!” Grady says, his expression no longer one of pain, but hope.

I can’t deny them, like I ever would when it came to them accepting Ridge into our lives, our love complicated lives.

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