Page 84 of Make Me Swoon

I pull the lasagna out, wondering when she had the time to make it. The first bite is bittersweet. It tastes delicious but it only makes me miss my brother even more.

Maybe that’s a good thing though.

I finish off my serving and put my dishes in the sink. When the water turns on overhead, I grin. Like always, my girl is ahead of me.

I take the stairs two at a time and grin as I walk into the bathroom and see her stepping beneath the water.

“Now, what did you want me to help you wash?” she asks and I laugh as I start to strip out of my clothes.

“Everything. I want you for everything,” I tell her as I join her beneath the spray.

“So helpless,” she teases and I laugh.

“Just in love.”

She melts at that and I cup her face in my hands.

“I love you too.”

I smile as I bend down and capture her lips with mine. Then I spend the rest of the night showing her just how much I love her too.

FOURTEEN

Phoenix

One Year Later…

I swingFaith’s hand in mine as we make our way down the sidewalk. I just picked her up from her first day of kindergarten and she’s excitedly telling me about everything that she did. I listen attentively as I lead her down the busy sidewalk.

We’re headed to King’s Gym to meet Jameson after his training. He’s still riding the high of his last fight and after a week at home with us, he was dying to get back in the routine of training. Kit is still his trainer and he still trains and spars with Niall, Finn, and Brooks.

Not much has changed for us over the last year. He’s still training and fighting, we still live in the same townhome. The only real difference is that I’m no longer Faith’s nanny. Now I’m her guardian.

Jameson and I got married six months ago in a small ceremony in Michigan. He knows how much that place means to me. He even surprised me by offering to buy my grandma’s old house, but when we drove by, a new family had moved in and the kids looked so happy playing on the front lawn that I couldn’t do it. I’m glad that the house has another happy family and that’s enough for me.

Sylvie, Finn, Everly, Niall, Brooks, and Rae all came for the wedding and we got to spend a few days together in a big cabin there right on Lake Michigan. It was so nice to get to be with everyone for a few days. We’re all so busy now that we don’t always get to see each other a ton. Plus, it was nice to have a ton of people around to watch Faith in case Jameson and I wanted some time alone.

I got pregnant while we were there. I had been so scared to tell Faith the news, but she took it well. She’s excited to be a big sister and she knows that we won’t love her any less once the baby is here.

“Do you think we can get pizza for dinner?” Faith asks as we reach King’s Gym and I smile.

“Let’s see if we can talk Dad into it,” I tell her and she grins.

She started calling Jameson dad a few months ago. The first time she did it, we both almost started crying. I know that it means so much to Jameson. He confided in me that he was scared that she was forgetting about David, but I assured him that she never would.

We talk about David and Carrie all of the time and make sure that Faith still has pictures of her parents.

“Dad!” Faith yells, taking off toward Jameson and I blink back tears as he catches her up in a bear hug.

The pregnancy hormones have been so bad with me. I swear that I cry at the drop of a hat. Jameson sees and gives me a knowing smile.

“Hey, baby,” he greets me and I lean up on my tiptoes to give him a kiss.

“How was school?” he asks Faith and she launches into telling him all about her day as he picks up some of the weights that he was using.

“Hey, Faith!” Niall calls as he jogs over to give her a hug.

“Hi, Uncle Niall. Is Uncle Brooks here?” she asks him and I have to bite my lip to keep from laughing.

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