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And finally, when she was pink and s and so sensitive, she trembled every tiht showing her just how special she was to me

Epilogue

Mo ~ Six Months Later

“I’ift”

Maisie’s pale skin turned strawberry red as she held the crotchless negligee in the air for all the baby shower attendants to see and ooh over

“I il will too, but seriously?”

Sadie sat on her grandmother’s perch beside Maisie and arched one eyebrow “I read soift to ensure that, when the tirandchild”

“Oh, that is such bullshit, Ma, and you know it”

Kat let out a loud bark of laughter fro her best to keep her new pregnancy a secret on Maisie’s big day

Maisie’s baby shower took place just six weeks after my oith many of the same women in attendance, like ere all fa a nonstop circle on my swollen belly while the other hand held my sore back But I didn’t want to be anywhere else on this day e help Maisie celebrate and prepare for another Ashby baby, set to arrive in seven weeks’ time

Sadie shrugged off Kat’s words with a srandmother, to push my children to spend arden”

And then there was my electronic bottle washer It was such a stupid but practical and luxurious gift that I hadn’t been able to resist

Retail therapy was rowing, I didn’t get out s

Things for the house like black and gold dinner plates and a brand new vacuuoalposts, for when he was older, and a Lae where he loves all things cars

I bought new jeans for Jasper because the stress he’d been under, thanks to a new threat to the fa about me had caused hinificently if I do say so myself

And I do

“Okay, this is just disgusting,” Maisie said as she held up the parts of a breast pump “Who did this?”

“It’s a breast pump”