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“So off my shoes in the mudroom

Prue coreet her “Hey, girl” I kiss her head She sticks her tongue out and licks my face

“I ing along to a song

“I got you so” I stand and round the hallway into the kitchen

I smile when I find Thea in the kitchen, her hair clipped up, and wearing nothing but a pair of underwear and one of my white dress shirts

Fuck, I’uy in the world

It’s moments like these that hitI ever want to take for granted

Thea smiles at me and it hits me like a ton of bricks

I used to live for football, and evento fail—but now all I live for is that girl’s smile

“Hey,” she greets

“Hi, beautiful” I lean against the counter, holding the gift in ift-wrap it, and when I did she asked irl so she could match the paper I told her we didn’t know yet, so she wrapped it in a pale yellow paper with green ducks

“I missed you” She leans over to , which is covering bread with soarlic sauce

“Do you want to open your present?” I ask, tossing the s it easily

She stops what she’s doing and flicks a piece of hair out of her eyes that’s fallen loose fro for the baby until we knew if it was a boy or girl We have a couple more weeks”

I grin, undeterred by her words “Trustto love it for a boy or a girl”