Mind Games - Page 238

“No, you don’t. I’ve got you. Take us on, Thea.” He touched his lips to hers. “Take us in. We love you. Let’s make a family.”

Speechless, she cupped his face in her hands.

“Read my mind if you need to,” he told her.

“No. No, I just need a minute. You’ve turned one of the hardest days of my life into one of the most beautiful. This is what I want, everything I want, and now, now I can have it. If Bray’s okay with it.”

“That’s exactly what he said when I talked to him about it last night.”

“You talked to him about it?”

“We come as a set,” he reminded her. “He said okay. And wanted to know if Bunk could sleep in his new room. There was mention of moving the play set. And pancakes.”

“How could I say no to any of that?”

Her life, she thought. She had her life, and she’d unlocked her future.

“I love you both.” Looking into his eyes, she let the happy tears come. “I’ll take you on, I’ll take you in. We’ll make a family. But.”

“Uh-oh.”

“We have to have two more children.”

“Two more.”

“When I wrote in my journal about you, and how we’d meet someday, somehow, and you, of course, would fall completely in love with me. We’d get married and have three children.”

“Where’s this journal?”

Laughing, she lifted her face to the sun. “You’ll never find it.”

He kissed her forehead. “Two more. We’ll be good at it. And Bray? He’ll make a damn good big brother.”

He lifted her off her feet, swung her around. “Let’s go home and get started.”

But they held on to each other for another moment in that gold-tinged sunlight. And holding him, she didn’t need to look to know she hadn’t just unlocked her future.

They’d unlocked theirs.

It waited for them in the hills and forests of home.