Page 157 of Delivery After Dark
Dan went over to sit next to Kara on the sofa, gazing at the perfect face of his daughter as she slept on her mother’s chest, her tiny lips making a sweet kiss shape. “Good Lord, but she’s beautiful.”
“I can’t stop staring at her.”
“We make very pretty babies. We should do it again soon.”
Kara groaned. “Easy, cowboy. It still hurts to pee.”
“You want more, right?”
“Yes, give me a year or two.”
“I’m getting old, babe,” he said without taking his gaze off the baby, not wanting to miss a single one of the myriad expressions she made while sleeping.
“What did you just say?”
“You heard me.”
“I can’t believe you actually admitted that.”
“Well, the truth hurts, and it’s true that I’m getting old. I don’t want to be sending kids to college when I’m eighty.”
“You’re not going to be eighty,” she said with a snort of laughter. “I thought you were supposed to be so smart, and you can’t do basic math. Forty plus eighteen equals fifty-eight. Does that make you feel better?”
“I thought it equaled eighty.”
She rolled her eyes, which she did so often with him, it was a wonder she didn’t sprain something. “You’re a spring chicken, and we have plenty of time to have more kids. Don’t rush me.”
“Thank you for my sweet, beautiful Dylan.”
“Thank you for her.”
“I don’t know how I’ll ever go back to work when there’s so much fun to be had right here.”
“I feel the same way. I can’t imagine leaving her for a single minute.”
“We can spend most of our time with her. I’ll work from home. You’ll find someone to manage the launches.”
“Is it that simple?”
“Why can’t it be? We’ve worked our asses off so we can set things up the way they work for us.”
“Well, you’ve worked your ass off.”
“We have. You’ve got that business in the Salt Pond running seamlessly. You did that. Now you can settle into motherhood and not worry about anything else, if that’s what you want.”
“I might want to work a little bit here and there.”
“Then that’s what you should do.”
“My mom is asking when we can bring Dylan home to Maine to meet everyone.”
“We’ll do that. In a couple of months, when she’s more portable. In the meantime, invite them to come here.”
“I already did. It’s nice to be on better terms with them and to know they’ll be part of Dylan’s life.”
“And how are Keith and Kirby doing?”
Her brothers had been wrongly charged with murder last fall, and thanks to Dan and the team he put together in Maine, the charges had been eventually dropped. The time he and Kara had spent in Maine had helped to smooth things over between Kara and her enormous family.
