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“It’s the big puppy eyes I can’t say no to you either, Selena”

“I guess that’s good for me”

And our friendship

I’d told her shortly after the engagement was official While it took time for her to adjust, she’d been there in the delivery roo as h the twenty-hour birth We’d been inseparable since, as it alas supposed to be That was good for her since she’d been nancy

She was having the worst tiet her to try butterot it; that stuff tasted awful, but it fixed everything

“It is very good for both of you,” Ta from a Cole family member”

“You say that now, but you wait till you have a preschooler hopped up on chocolate and sugar”

I walked over and gave her a quick hug “How are you really?”

“Tired, but we can dish too let Jonathan know I’lanced at her watch “It’s later than I thought”

Meaning it was past ten, and I had proht at the latest “Sorry, Calvin Kline had a lot to say about his new spring line My treat for lunch”

“Oh, you bet it is Daddy has way more money still than Jonathan” She winked at me and rubbed Julian’s dark curly hair “Buddy, I’ll see you later, okay?”

He sed Tammy around her tummy “Sure, Sissy And you take care of Diana I can’t wait till she gets here… Even if she is a girl”

I laughed and rubbed his shoulders “How generous”

A few hours passed, and I was sitting in his roo quietly in the rocker I found that helped me when Brandon was out of town on business I didn’t sleep well period even with our state of the art security I was just too full of nervous energy Plus I hated the e from enjoyable and reminded me too much of the awful two months of our separation

It was a time in my life that I never wanted to relive, no matter what