God, I was so happy when I finally held her in my arms! I couldn’t stop smiling!
Stella left for a while, and when she returned, she asked, “Ready for visitors, Mama?”
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“Send him in.”
She placed Lily back in the bassinet to give me a rest and stepped out.
A moment later, the door swung open, and there was Ethan.
I was so happy!
My husband’s hair was a mess, his shirt wrinkled from a night in a waiting room chair. He was holding the biggest bouquet of white roses I had ever seen! But it was his face I couldn’t stop looking at. He looked at me as if I’d just handed him the world!
“This is the happiest day of my life,” he said, a wide smile on his face as he crossed the room in three long strides.
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He kissed my forehead, then turned to the bassinet, still smiling wide enough to break my heart.
My husband’s hair was a mess.
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Then he bent over our daughter with that wide smile still on his face, and something in him just stopped.
I watched his eyes move slowly across Lily’s tiny face, lingering on a spot just behind her ear. The bouquet in his hand tilted. The flowers slid free and scattered across the linoleum.
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“Ethan?” I whispered. “What’s wrong?”
My husband looked up at me, and it was as if he were seeing a stranger sitting in my bed.
The bouquet in his hand tilted.
“Why didn’t you tell me before?”
My stomach clenched so hard that I felt sick. I pulled the blanket a little closer to my chest.
