Authors: J.J. Murray

I'll Be Your Everything (39 page)

He nods. “I like that name. Breezy Sexton. Very cool.”

He’s still not understanding me. “Um, we’re going to be naming her pretty soon, Tom, like in August.”

Tom’s mouth drops open. He has such nice teeth. Ooh, just look at that tongue!

“And after Breezy,” I continue, “we’ll have a little girl named Bliss.”

Tom closes his mouth, nods, and lifts me high into the air, and his shouting rattles the windows on the fifty-fifth floor of the Millennium Hotel.

I’ll out-yell him later tonight at our house. The neighbors won’t hear us. The city of Queens might, though.

He sets me down. “Really?”

I nod. “I think so. I’ve been puking all day.”

He shouts again.

Pitiful. He doesn’t use his diaphragm at all. I’ll teach him.

After shaking hands with Mr. Peterson and filling out a contract, Tom and I stand looking out that window at all the lights of Manhattan.

“Ready to go home, Shari?” he asks.

I smile at Tom. “Man, I am already home.”

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