“I will,” Andrew said, giving me an annoyed glance.
“Is he a looker?” my mother asked.
“Yes.” I focused on my dinner, twirling my noodles on my fork.
“He’s rich and single, too.”
My father laughed. “In ten minutes, she’s going to have you married to the kid.”
I swallowed. “I don’t need to be married to be happy. Andrew and I do just fine.”
“Well of course you do, honey.” My mother patted my hand. “But life is so much better when you share it with your soulmate.”
“Devin isn’t my soulmate.”
“Devin?” My father’s gaze jerked to mine. “You call him Devin?”
Ugh! “That’s his name, isn’t it? Regardless. Don’t be getting Cinderella ideas, mom.”
“You should be open to dating though, honey.”
“Leave her be,” my father said to my mother. “She’s still young and she needs to be picky. Not just any man can take over father responsibilities to young Andrew.”
“True.” My mother nodded in agreement. “You need to choose someone responsible and who would love him like a son.”
I was reminded why more often than not I didn’t stay for dinner. Inevitably, it ended up with talk about how I needed a life partner.
After dinner, Andrew and I headed up to our own place. I gave him a bath and then we read his airplane book.
“When I grow up, I want to fly airplanes,” he said as I closed the book and set it on the tiny bedside table in his little nook.
“You can grow up to do anything you want,” I said, vowing to give him the opportunities to pursue his dreams.
“You can come with me,” he said, scooting down under his covers.
“I can’t wait. Where will we go?”
His brow furrowed in thought. “Disneyland?”
I laughed. “That sounds like fun. I’ve never been there. You know there are a few of them.”
“Really?” His blue-green eyes widened.
“One in California and one in Florida. I even think there are some in other countries.”
“We can go to them all,” he said.
I laughed. “It’s a date.”
His brows furrowed again. “Am I getting a daddy?”
It took me a minute to switch gears. “What?”
“Grandma and Grandpa said you needed to find me a daddy.”
That wasn’t exactly what they said, although I suppose that’s what they meant. “There’s no one right now to be your daddy.”
His expression faltered slightly.