Thief (A Bad Boy Romance)(78)
Being seven months pregnant has its perks.
“Yes, she’s wearing the SPF 9000,” I say evenly. I love how much he worries over our first daughter.
He frowns, still watching Emma “They don’t make that.”
“Silas.”
He looks down and sees the sarcasm on my face.
“Oh har-har-har,” he murmurs, grinning before he leans down to steal a kiss.
“She’s fine, don’t worry.”
We’re all fine.
It’s been five years since the day on the pier of Shelter Harbor when I said yes, again. Four years and eleven months since we held a real ceremony, this time with my family present. We even got Father Murray, who married us the first time in the rectory at St. Michael’s, to come and preside over what was this time around just a formality.
Silas and my brother Kyle started their securities company. It’s based out of New York City, so there’s a fair amount of travel involved for Silas, but its working out, and the company is doing phenomenally well.
And he always comes home.
“Home” being here in Shelter Harbor.
Yeah, we stayed. We got our house, of course. No more basement couches under Jacob’s roof.
Sierra’s friend did put me in touch with an amazing lawyer. But, it turned out I never really needed him because Blaine managed to break contract himself when he was caught on camera blowing coke at some nightclub.
He and Ainsley are still together, for whatever that’s worth. I honestly don’t have an opinion on it.
After that though, Lori saw no reason to sue each other, and actually asked me to stay with the management company.
I declined.
I went solo, and it’s been the best thing I could have done. Plus, it’s the digital age, and I could honestly do my work from anywhere. And as it happens, my fans love “quaint New England charm” in their pictures. I took my yoga line that the management company had been holding over my head for years along with me. And after Vivian put me in touch with a few of her high class trust fund friends, it launched six months after I left to a pretty huge response.
Lululemon does carry it, by the way.
I also expanded into a “mommy yoga” line after I found out I was pregnant with Emma, and business has been great.
Declan’s currently serving twenty years in Walpole prison. Silas still goes to see him once a month, which at first I was appalled by, until he explained it to me.
“Believe me, no matter how shitty you act, you can’t lose your family entirely. Nothing’s worse than that.”
And so life goes on. Mom’s still gardening and teaching the odd piano lesson. Dad’s still giving sermon’s every Sunday. Sierra went back to her graduate program, Rowan went back to opening and closing his favorite bar six days a week, and Stella and Carter went back to being their own little team.
And we’re right here in the thick of it. Because somehow, running from home and the places we knew only brought us right back to where we started and right back together.
We just had to take the long way.
But we’re home now, right where we belong.
And nothing’s going to change that.
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