Last and Forever by Brooke Rebecca

Author:Brooke, Rebecca
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-13T16:00:00+00:00

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Aiden

A soft giggle hit my ears when I stepped out of the shower. I ran the towel through my wet hair to stop the water from running down my back. Then wrapped it around my waist and walked back into the bedroom. Chloe stood in her playpen, holding on to the edge. Zeus laid curled up in the middle of the bed like he owned it. I shook my head laughing and walked over to Chloe.

“Look at you, little princess, getting so big.”

I reached down and lifted her up and into my arms. Immediately she reached for my face, pushing on my cheeks until I made the fish face she loved. There was so much of Christine in her, especially the jade green eyes staring back at me.

“I’m really not sure where the time has gone.”

Every day she seemed so much bigger and the new things she learned made me feel like time was flying right before my eyes. Those moments you wish you could bottle and keep forever, but I knew that wasn’t reality. I just had to enjoy these moments for everything they were.

I turned on some music to break up the silence. Zeus picked his head up for a brief second to see what we were doing before going back to sleep. Classic rock, the music I grew up on, filled the room. It was comforting. Relaxing.

Nothing like the music I left behind.

I danced around the room with Chloe in my arms. The same soft giggles I heard when I got out of the shower hit my ears. She clapped her hands together. The smile never left her lips.

Breathless, I walked back to her playpen and set her down. “Give me a minute to get dressed, princess. Lexi will be here soon.”

I tugged on a pair of jeans and T-shirt, leaving my feet bare. Lexi had offered to pick dinner up on her way home from work so we could spend the night hanging out on the couch watching a movie.

Her week had been pretty rough. The other night, when we were supposed to head to the movies while my dad watched Chloe, she called me. I could hear the tears in her voice the minute she said hello. Turned out, an emergency had been brought in, a dog that had gotten hit by a car. She’d spent hours in surgery trying to save the dog, but in the end she couldn’t.

Instead of going out, I’d convinced her to come over and I simply held her while she cried. Lexi had loved animals since she was a kid. The type of kid who would save a baby bird’s nest that fell out of a tree. Or the one who would stop in the middle of the road to keep from hitting a squirrel.

The ones she couldn’t save hit her the hardest.

She kept trying to tell me that we should go out anyway, but I knew she was in no shape to be dealing with others. She’d been

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