Chapter 0935

"But," Jesse says, raising his glass again to me in toast. "I think that you're going to be great, Ari. I think this is weird, and challenging, but that...I don't know. I think that it could be really good."

"Mom always says babies are a blessing, however they come," I say on a sigh, looking down into my glass, hoping that she's right. Hoping that I can do this- support Jackson, and help to raise Marigold, and play the roles in their lives that they need me to be. Inwardly, even as I quail, I feel myself step up to the challenge.

Because I want to do it. As strange and as fast as it all is - I want it.

"What babies are blessings?"

My dad's voice echoes from the door and I jump a little spinning towards him. My eyes go wide and my face goes a bit pale as twin smiles break out on Rafe and Jesse's faces – both wicked, both desperately interested to see how this goes down.

"Pour yourself a drink, dad," I say on a sigh, gesturing towards the bar cart. "We've got some news for you."

Dad stills at the door, glaring between Jesse and Rafe. "Who got who pregnant?” he growls, suspicious. "God damn it, I told you boys -"

luckily blotting the rest of that sentence from my hearing even as Rafe and Jesse nearly burst up from their seats, protestations of innocence already

at them and striding quickly for the bar cart. "God damn it, if this

we having drinks?" Mom's voice rings out as she comes into the living room, her face blissful, her cheeks flushed. "Yay! I'm glad

his eyes at her as he finishes splashing whiskey in a glass, grabbing next for the bottle of wine she likes next. "Well, you

dad and pressing

of love on his face, making my

I get to be that

you forgot," mom murmurs, grinning at she accepts the glass of wine from his hand. “But you're a terrible brute. You owe me an

his agreement, his eyes flashing over mom's

al.ne

drink. "Bright eyes, flushed cheeks, utter happiness...this can only mean one

she says, grinning

he realizes that she's not kidding and then whips his head over

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