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“Gonna be even longer with a baby in the house,” Forrest said with a s”

“How could you tell?” Wilson asked “She was holding that child so close I couldn’t even tell if it had all the requisite extremities”

“It’s hers, I assume?” Eli asked me

“Better be,” Josiah said “Or it puts that nursing Madonna vision we found in the closet into a whole new freaky perspective”

Eli grinned

“Yeah, she’s hers,” I replied

“What’s her name?” Lu asked Cecilia as she came back into the room

“Oh” She looked down at the baby “She doesn’t have one yet”

“You haven’t named your kid?” Ephraim said in surprise

“I’ to see what fits her personality,” she replied, the words sounding almost like a question

“Good luck with that,” Eli said uncertainly

“I think you should na onto the counter next to Wilson

“So they’ll have the same name?” Josiah shot back

“Men do it all the ti I could tell by her tone and the set of her shoulders that she was just winding up, and I didn’t want to be there for the eventual debate

“You ready?” I asked Cecilia

“Yep Hopefully, we don’t get pulled over,” she said as she strode toward ht”

“Shoulda thought to grab it,” I replied, opening the door and letting her go ahead of me

“We’ll lock up e leave,” Ephraim called

“Sounds good,” I muttered I wasn’t even sure if he heardher baby after herself

“Good thing I have a back seat,” I told Cecilia as I led her to my truck “Probably safer for you two to ride back there”

“Good call,” she said “Thanks for taking me to the store”

“No worries”

I opened the door and spotted her as she cli not to stare at her ass, but it was impossible not to notice the shape of her She didn’t look like she’d just had a baby Sure, she was a little curvier than she’d been ere kids, but that was norhteen If anything, Cecilia looked even better now that she had a little extra meat on her bones She’s always been beautiful, but she’deven better