Epilogue
Three years later
“
Shiiiit
.”
Poppy snatched her hand to her face and checked the diamond on her ring. This was the fourth time in the last week that she had banged her wedding ring on something.
“What? What’s wrong?” Blake all but skidded into the kitchen, his eyes wide as he looked her up and down. He was in front of her a second later, the limp in his left leg slightly noticeable. His hands shot out to grip her waist, and he hauled her to his chest. “I heard you shout.” Poppy couldn’t help but smile at the concern on his face.
“I just banged the ring on the sink.”
“Again?”
He cocked a brow at her as his lips twitched in amusement.
“You won’t think it’s so funny when I break the damn thing. Why did you have to get such a big rock anyway?” She was all talk. She loved that big diamond, especially when it sparkled in the sunlight.
“I can always take it and put a smaller diamond in it if it makes you feel better.” He made a move to take the ring off her finger, and she snatched her hand away. The chuckle that came from him ignited
her own
. “I thought you were going into labor or something.”
“Blake, I have like a month left, and besides we’ve already gone through
this
two years ago. You act like this is our first baby all over again.” He dropped to his haunches, and she was struck by how vulnerable such a big, strong man like Blake could look staring up at her. His hands landed on either side of her rounded belly, and she speared her hands in his hair.
“Every time you carry my child I’m going to be like this, sweetheart.” He kissed her protruding belly button. “People deliver babies early all the time. I sit up at night worrying that I won’t get you to the hospital in time.”
“You worry too much, Blake.”
“Yeah, well when it comes to you and the baby it’s all I seem to do.” The sound of little pattering feet running down the hall had them both looking in that direction.
“Carson Jonathan Ellis.
What is all over your face?” She went over to their little boy and scooped him up. His little hands rose and started patting his face at the same time his grin widened.
“Momma, we
was
coloring
pwetty
pitchews
for you.”
“Oh, my sweet little boy.”
Poppy laughed as she took in Carson’s marker colored face. Blake came up behind her and wrapped his arms around her belly. He kissed the side of her neck before leaning forward and kissing Carson’s head full of dark hair.
Since Blake woke up in the hospital his rehabilitation had been slow but had been progressing well. He had a limp in his left leg, and the doctors still didn’t know if it would ever be completely functional. Aside from that he had made a total recovery. The rehabilitation had been hard on him, but Blake was one of the strongest men she knew. Now, three years later, they were married, had a healthy and rambunctious little boy, and were expecting their second child, a little girl. Their family was supportive of their relationship, and their wedding had been held in front of them all back in Ohio.
Maggie had been sent to a maximum security prison for attempted murder, and they were told she would be there for a long time. Apparently she had a long standing record, under a different name, and had gotten her into trouble in three other states before she settled in Blithe.
“I love you, you know.” He whispered against her neck. She could feel him smiling, which had her smile growing across her face.
“I
wuv
you, too, Momma.”
She kissed Carson on the cheek and knew she’d have blue marker on her lips, but she didn’t care. “And I love my two boys most of all.” At her words Blake tightened his hold on her.
Life may have turned upside down for her, but it had righted itself and now only gave her the happiness she had thought she would never see again. Things were looking good, and from that point on she would never let the past dictate how her future would play out. Blake and her family didn’t want that for her, and she knew neither would Jon if he was still alive. She felt the certainty of that in the bottom of her heart.
The End
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