“You’re eating for two.” He rubs my belly under the blanket. “I have to make sure you eat healthy for two as well.”
I reach up and touch the side of his face, then kiss him gently.
“Thank you for taking care of me,” I say softly.
“Thank you for loving me.” Nate runs his hand from my stomach up to my face. “If it hadn’t been for you, I’d be in a business I wanted nothing to do with, alone and probably completely insane.”
“You worked on that yourself,” I remind him. “You’re still working on that.”
“Yes, but as much as I know I needed to do it for myself, I don’t think I would have had the courage without you.”
He kisses me again.
“I love you, Nate.”
“I love you too, Cherry. Always.”
When I moved to Cascade Falls to find my family, I never could have imagined that just a few years later, I’d have not only my birth family but a family of my own. I have Nate, Natalie, a new child on the way, and countless family and friends around me now.
I was simply seeking a connection to my past, and it turned into an amazing future.
~~THE END~~