Total pages in book: 59
Estimated words: 59671 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 298(@200wpm)___ 239(@250wpm)___ 199(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 59671 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 298(@200wpm)___ 239(@250wpm)___ 199(@300wpm)
“Thank you, thank you.” I whisper.
The whole room is crying.
“Elliot.” Kate sobs, “Look at her.” She strokes her hair, “I knew you’d come baby girl. I always had faith.” She passes her to me and I stare down at the perfect little baby.
She has dark hair with fine features like Kate.
Perfection.
“What are you going to call her?” Jameson asks.
And in that moment, I just know.
“I have the perfect name.” I smile as I look down at her in wonder.
“What is it?” Kate whispers as she puts her arm around the both of us.
“Something you never lost sight of.”
Kate frowns.
“Faith.”
Kate screws up her face in tears. “That’s the perfect name,” She whispers.
I kiss her tiny forehead, “Her name is Faith.”
THE DO-OVER EPILOGUE
THE MILES HIGH CLUB
THE DO-OVER EPILOGUE
Hayden
I listen to Christopher show Eddie around his new bedroom as I look around mine.
A million emotions all rushing to the surface at once.
Love, fear…relief.
Excitement.
A farm, our very own farm. And not just any farm, the most perfect place in the world, and Christopher can drive to work from here. I can run cattle and homeschool Eddie, there are so many possibilities for us all to be happy here.
The perfect solution.
I walk up the hall to see Christopher hugging Eddie and my eyes fill with tears, what must it be like to see this day through his eyes?
“Hey.” I smile through tears as I walk into Eddie’s bedroom.
“Not you too.” Christopher rolls his eyes. “Why are you all crying?”
“This is a happy day.” I smile.
“Yeah well, it might not be so happy if I get eaten by a wolf.” He sighs as he flops onto the bed. “We need to call the person to eradicate that.”
“Eradicate what?”
“Wolves, Hayden.” He rolls his eyes as if I’m stupid. “What else would I be talking about?”
“You’re actually serious?” I gasp in surprise. “There are no wolves in the United Kingdom, Christopher, aren’t you supposed to know this?”
“We did hear something growl,” Eddie replies, seemingly convinced too. “Something is out there, Hazen.”
“Listen wimps.” I pull back the blankets on Eddie’s bed. “Tomorrow I’m going to check it all out and make sure it’s safe for you two yellowbellies.”
“Eddie and I have never pretended to be farm boys, Hayden. We’re city slickers, aren’t we, Eddie.” He bumps Eddie’s shoulder with his.
Eddie smiles goofily with a nod.
“Oh, and there’s a house down on the bottom paddocks for your parents,” Christopher says casually as if he just remembered. “And another broken-down house on another faraway paddock in real bumfuck nowhere that we will fix up as a guesthouse one day.”
I stop still. “What? There’s a house for my parents?”
“Uh-huh,” He puts his hands on his hips as if proud of himself, “They can come whenever it suits them, even move here if they want.”
My eyes well with tears again. “I can’t believe this, Christopher, you’ve done all this for me?”
He pulls me close and kisses my lips, “I want you to be happy, Grumps.”
“This is going to be a big adjustment for you boys.” I look between them.
“We can hack it. Can’t we, Ed?”
My heart sinks. “I don’t want you to hack it, I want you to love it.”
Christopher puts his arm around Eddie and pulls him close. “As long as we’re all together, everything is going to be alright. And you want to be a farm girl, so we are going to love it.”
“Do you promise?” I ask hopefully.
“Well it better be,” Eddie mutters dryly. “You’re getting married now, remember?”
I giggle and look down at the ring on my finger as I sit on the bed, the boys sit down either side of me. “I can’t believe it.” I look up to Eddie. “We have so much to do, buddy, we have to sort our new house out and organize a wedding and grocery shop and oh, do we have a tractor?”
Christopher frowns. “Calm down. What is it with you and fucking tractors? Do you watch tractor porn?”
We all fall silent as our minds individually race off on tangents.
“Big few days,” Christopher eventually says.
“Why, what are we doing?”
“Well.” He thinks for a moment. “Tomorrow we can look around the farm and then we’re going to take Eddie to London and show him around.”
Eddie’s eyes light up. “Really?”
“And buy some furniture while we are there,” Christopher says really quickly in hope that Eddie didn’t hear it.
“I don’t need furniture.” I sigh dreamily. “I have everything I want right here in this room.”
Christopher twists his lips. “Hate to burst your bubble, Grumps, but you’re going to get sick of sitting on the floor real quick.”
I giggle. “This is true.”
We fall silent again.
“What do you think, Eddie?” Christopher slaps him on the back. “Do you like your new home?”
Eddie nods, he’s so overwhelmed.
I am too, actually.
This is a dream come true.
“I’m so happy.” I smile over at my beautiful man. “Like stupidly happy.”