“Okay, but we’re going to be together again? Now?”
“Soon. I’m trying to tie up all these loose ends so we can do that.”
“What loose ends?”
“Callaway Jewels. I sold out to Malibu.”
“Sold what? Which store?”
“All of them. I’m done with anything that has to do with a Callaway.”
“What does that mean, Drew? What will you do?”
Drew snickered. “I don’t have to do anything, Morgan. We have enough money to last our great-great-grandchildren for the rest of their lives. I thought maybe I’d spend my days on the beach finding treasures with my son.”
“We’re going to live at the beach house?”
“For a while. How do you feel about that?”
“I feel like I love you. What about Deidra? She’s okay with this?”
“Deidra has helped me realize all of this over the past few months. Baby, I don’t care about all of this. I care about you and that little boy. Hey, where’s my son?”
“With my mom and Alicia.” I smiled. “When, Drew? When are you going to be there with us?”
“Three maybe four more weeks.”
“I want to stay here with you.”
“No. I don’t want you here. I’m trying to disassociate myself from this house and anything to do with Callaway. I need you to go back to the beach house.”
“Okay,” I agreed completely shocked and stupefied. He hadn’t been doing what I’d pictured him doing at all. He wasn’t hiding behind work. He was busy, trying to sell everything so he could be with us.
“What are you doing here? I can’t believe you flew here without telling me.”
“I had something I wanted to tell you, and I couldn’t wait.”
“Is it bad?”
“I hope not.”
“What is it, Morgan. You’re scaring me.”
“I’m pregnant.”
Drew came to an upright position, forcing me to step back. “You’re…you’re pregnant? How? When?”
“When you came to stop me from going to Maine. And I don’t really need to explain the how.”
“You’re pregnant?”
“Yes.” I exhaled, seeing the creeping smile I was waiting for.
Drew grabbed me spun me in a circle and kissed me. “You have no idea how happy that makes me, Mrs. Kelley. I love you so much, and I am going to spend the rest of my life being the best husband and daddy I can be.”
“I don’t doubt that, not for one second. We’re going to be okay now, Drew.”
“We are, love, and I can promise you that and stand behind it now. You’re pregnant?”
“I am.”
I spent the entire day telling the movers what I wanted packed. Most of it was being sold. I felt the same as Drew. I didn’t want it either, besides, we didn’t really need it. We had everything we needed at the beach house already.
Drew wouldn’t even let me take most of Nicholas’s clothes. He said we didn’t need to save clothes, we weren’t having a used baby, and it was going to be a little girl anyway.
“We’re going to have plenty of time to shop anyway. Let’s donate them,” he’d told me. I was okay with it. I liked the idea of shopping hand in hand with Drew, picking out pink and purple outfits.
“That’s enough. Let’s go to the movies,” Drew stated, taping up the last box of toys.
“Movies?” Drew and I had never been to movie, not at a theater anyway. We’d gone to more elaborate shows but never to a movie theater.
“Yes, let’s go get a happy meal and watch a movie.”
“Have you ever been to a movie?” Drew asked, sitting in the parking lot, eating fast-food.
“Yes, Dawson used to take me a lot.”
“I should have done more stuff like that with you. I’m going to from here on out.”
“That makes me very happy,” I said, moving closer, letting him bite half my French fry and kiss my lips.
Drew and I sat holding hands in the dark theater. The movie sucked and we spent most of the show making fun of how awful it was.
“We’re really doing this, Morgan,” Drew whispered.
“Doing what?”
“Acting like a real couple out on a date night.”
“We never went on dates.”
“We’re going to now. I promise.”
“Shhhhh,” we both heard from behind us. I guess we were the only ones who didn’t like the movie.
“Let’s get out of here,” I whispered.
That was the last night that Drew and I would be a couple in the mansion. I wasn’t going to miss it at all. I loved the beach in Maine, and I loved the beach on Rodanthe Island even more. Winters in Maine could get pretty crazy.