Chapter 107

Chapter 107

Fourteen months later

It was Christmas Eve. It was already fourteen months after they moved in their home in Maine. Fourteen months she worked from home as the PR specialist of Ross Corporation. And fourteen months since Kylan stayed by her side, only flying to New York when he was needed the most.

Right now, he would never admit it, not to anyone, not ever. But Rylan liked I taking the night shift. He never minded getting up at ungodly hours. pulling on his robe and his slippers to make the trek across the hall.

She was therefore not surprised when she woke to an empty bed, her phone reading that it was just after two o'clock in the morning. It was freezing, and she didn't want to leave the warmth of her covers, but she could hear a low, familiar voice nearby and she would never miss seeing Kylan in these quiet moments when she happened upon them.

She pulled the duvet away from her body, shivering just before she found and dragged on her robe and slippers, just like Kylan's

She tiptoed out into the hallway, their house soft and still around her, save the humming coming from the room across the way. The door was cracked open slightly, orange light filtering out into the otherwise darkness.

She peered her head inside the room, noticing that Kylan had stoked a fire back to life in its hearth. But her eyes were quickly drawn to the man himself, sitting in a large rocking chair, glasses perched on the bridge of his nose, his parted hair falling in curtains around the top of his face, more grey pecking through lately. It suited him, and she made sure to tell him any time he talked about coloring it

He didn't need it, she would say. It was him, she would say. She loved seeing him get older, loved being

g beside h

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black slippers. She loved all of it, all of him, but what she loved most was what he cradled

bundled to perfection and adored just

barely make out her unruly head of jet black hair that poked out from the top of her cocoon where Kylan was softly stroking her cheek. He was still humming,

unintentional, and it hadn't been easy. Kylon struggled with the very concept of being a father, only because he wanted to be the best. He wanted to do it right. To live up

encouraged him, listened to his fears, and shared some of her worries, too. She didn't have a proper example of who a mother should be, but she leaned on the fact that Kylan did. That he had a mother who had loved him, who had protected him, who had raised him to be the man with the big

had a father, a wonderful father, who Kylan

breathing, piece of her love manifested in the flesh. And she was

She strained to listen better, praying the floorboards beneath her feet wouldn't squeak

the morning, when I

upon the morning

when I see the radiant

side. Sweet and cherished, linke child Sweet and cherished. my beloved When you grow up, don't forget You are loved in every aspect

times of trouble,

of pain, I and

the brighter side 'cause I

her as a child any time she was afraid. It was also the lullaby she sang to kylan in a hotel room, in the

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their daughter. Now he used

out she was pregnant with Clarence Aloisa, with her girl, she

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