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“Honey, if that’s what

you want, I want you to have children when the ti Search your heart and make sure you knohat you want

“I wanna be sure before I start bringing kids in this world Rex knohat he wants, but he’s a good bit older than us, too He’s waited five years, day in and day out, for you to come home”

“And you haven’t?” she asked “Don’t you want me anymore?”

Luke put his arm around her and kissed the top of her head “Honey, I’ll alant you, but if loving ive up your dreams, ill you have?”

She sht children who look like you and Rex?”

When he didn’t respond she pushed away her breakfast tray “I was an only child My grandfather was the youngest of eight He used to tell me stories about life on the farm with his brothers and sisters Froht children

“Maybe I look like I’m all over the place Sometimes I act like I don’t have any sense of direction, but at the end of h in the sky, I want to know

“Not only do I want to live well, I want to love well If I’, sorets when this life is over I never want to feel like I ”

Luke touched her cheek “Me either, Lucy”

“Good,” she said, pointing toward the rise in his Levi’s “Now get over here and get to work because I’e at the moment Let’s not waste one minute We have kids to produce”

“What?” he screeched

“I’ve got to have sex several tinant”

“If you’re serious about eight kids, then Rex and I will put a lot of miles on these sheets”

“I hope so,” she crooned, kissing his neck “Because I plan to put a lot of miles on you!”