Total pages in book: 101
Estimated words: 94436 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 472(@200wpm)___ 378(@250wpm)___ 315(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 94436 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 472(@200wpm)___ 378(@250wpm)___ 315(@300wpm)
She looked at me, her eyes twinkling with unshed tears. It looked like she might’ve been ready to talk to me, finally, if not for someone calling my name. Well, one of my names.
“Mommy!”
We both looked toward the sound.
Ruby ran through the sand, her father holding her small hand, walking slowly beside her. She’d probably refused to be carried because she was strong-willed and independent. And Jay would not have argued with his daughter because Jay always let his little princess call the shots. Oh, we were going to have fun in her teenage years.
“I am happy,” Wren said, watching them. “Seeing you like this, babe. Seeing you get everything you deserve. And more.”
I squeezed her hand. “You will get it too, I promise.” I silently vowed to make sure I figured out a way to keep that promise.
Wren stood, not saying anything, just kissing my cheek and running to Ruby, lifting her into the air and kissing her cheek before putting her down and whispering in her ear. Ruby giggled, the sound carrying over the ocean.
She then ran from her Aunt Wren into my arms. I lifted her high and cuddled her close. Jay’s arms were around the both of us in the next second.
He kissed Ruby’s cheek, then mine. I inhaled. The smell of my daughter, of my husband and the smell of the ocean. The sweetest smells in the world.
Jay
Both of them slept.
Both of his girls.
He leaned in to kiss his daughter’s head, inhaling the sweetest smell in the world, tied with the smell of his wife’s hair.
Jay brushed her chubby cheek then went back to bed, back to his wife. She curled up against him immediately, sleeping deeply, clinging to him, trusting him. After everything, his warm, pure and kind wife still trusted him with everything. With the whole world.
He did not deserve that trust. He did not deserve either of them. But he had them. And God help anyone who tried to take them from him, for he world wear their blood.