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My mom has been beside herself since I told her about Charlie and I wouldn’t be surprised if she just refuses to return home to Boston with my dad

Pepper studies ives me a pat on my ass “Just so you know, I’ your parents”

“Don’t be,” I tell her out of the side ofup the porch steps and I open the door with my free hand My other arm is occupied with an awake, curious baby

My ht to Charlie as she hits the top step of the porch My dad does spare lance, but then he looks to Charlie too

And fuck…his eyes are a little shiny as he stares in wonder at his granddaughter

“Oh my word, Nathan Look at her,” rin and step across the threshold, putting Charlie in my mom’s care She still hasn’t looked at ht

My dad crowds in at my mom’s back and stares at Charlie over her shoulder He reaches an arhter’s face with the tip of his finger

“She’s got Legend’s eyes,” he says to my mom with surety and I’m amazed he can see that

Outside of her hair and eye color, I can’t see anything that reseain, I don’t see anything of Lida either

We just stand there on the porch with Pepper waiting just inside the dooratching us I shoot her a glance and she grins back atas much as I am that my parents seem to be hypnotized

“Let me hold her, Wendy,” my dad demands and I blink in surprise I never took him as the sort that would want to hold a baby I can’t even ihup, that I figured all of the tenderness I have within me came from my mom

My jaw drops as he crowds in on ives her no choice but to turn Charlie over Like a damn pro, he puts a hand under her head and settles her easily into his cocooning embrace

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