The Child Who Changed Them (Parent Portal 5)

“Let’s go tonight,” he said boldly.

“Go where?”

“To Vegas. You said whenever...”

“But...”

He put a finger to her lips. “Not to get married, though I’m ready for that, too. Just to get away, me and you, a couple who’s just admitted they’re spending the rest of the

ir lives together.”

It wasn’t until Beldon nosed his leg that he realized they couldn’t just run off like two kids with no responsibility.

“Beldon,” he said, half to the dog, but seriously concerned, too. No kennel was going to be open after five on a Saturday night, not in Marie Cove... And they weren’t those people, the ones who could just throw all caution to the wind.

“We can drop him off at Wood and Cassie’s,” Elaina told him. “I’ve heard that Retro would welcome a playmate.”

“You call them, and the airline, and I’ll get a room.”

And he had to add, “It’s too soon for a wedding tonight, but I’m hoping for one before our daughter is born.”

Her smile, minus any sign of fear or doubt, earned her another very long kiss.

“First, how about another shower, as soon as we get to our room tonight?” she asked when they came up for air.

“I can agree to that plan. And this time you stand under the water...in front of me...so I can see every inch that I’m touching...”

Elaina shimmied up against him as well as her belly would allow, grinning, and then sobered.

“I’ll always have your back, Greg.” He knew by the deeply serious look in her eye that she was talking about the shower...and not.

“And I’ll always have yours.”

As doctors, as people who’d suffered, they both knew that there were many things they couldn’t control, but they’d just made a promise they could keep—for themselves and their family. Forever.

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