Total pages in book: 47
Estimated words: 45531 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 228(@200wpm)___ 182(@250wpm)___ 152(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 45531 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 228(@200wpm)___ 182(@250wpm)___ 152(@300wpm)
“I know,” Jacob replies, “but part of me wishes I could stay here forever and look at them. They don’t even know how perfect they are.”
I stand on my tiptoes, kissing my husband on the cheek, and then we walk hand-in-hand back to the yard.
“So, you had nothing to do with the missing cupcake?” Rosa says, aiming her pencil at Jaron.
Jaron’s eyes dart at us as we walk over. His wicked grin tells me he knows exactly what happened to the cupcake. “Nah-uh,” he says, shaking his head.
Rosa laughs, then waggles her pencil. I stand near the three of them, heart expanding with even more love—seriously, if that’s even possible—when I watch Jacob walk around the group and lean down, scooping Cole into his arms.
“Daddy,” Cole yells happily, as he always does, throwing his arms around his father.
“This is going to be an official Rosa Jennings article,” Rosa says, enunciating her words carefully. “That was right, yeah, Mommy? That sounded grownup?”
I smile, wondering how I can ever speak, ever force a single word out, when my throat is constantly closing with all this emotion.
“That was great,” I tell her.
“I’m going to be like you one day, Mommy, with your website and the newspaper and everything. Just you wait!”
“I believe you. You can do and be anything you want.”
Rosa turns back to the boys. “But first, we have to get to the bottom of this.”
“It was me!” Kasey yells, giggling, leaping to her feet, and running around the yard.
Rosa laughs and gives chase, and then Jaron gets involved. Cole squirms from his dad’s arms, and then he’s running around the yard, too, toddling after them with a big grin on his face.
He has his father’s smile. Everybody says that.
THE END