Our Shared Horizon (Kaitlyn and the Highlander Book 10) by Knightley Diana

Author:Knightley, Diana [Knightley, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-04-10T16:00:00+00:00

Thirty-three - Kaitlyn

My day was a bustle of activity at odds with itself. Emma, Beaty, and I had spent the morning shopping for Halloween costumes for the kids, because I remembered being a child when my mom took me at the last minute and all the best costumes were gone. We wanted to go sooner than later, plus we wanted photos of the boys in their costumes. This was reminiscent of that day, what seemed forever ago, when I lost the baby, which was melancholy, but I refused to be sad.

Standing in the aisle of the Halloween costume shop, holding up two packages for Archie, I asked, “Do you want to be a doggy or a kitty?”

He pulled a different costume from the rack, just about tearing the bag before I could see what was inside.

I asked, “A knight?”

“Me knight.” He grasped the handle of the sword that dangled beside it.

“Ah.” Here we go.

My nature was to try and talk him into being something more peaceful, perhaps less, ‘this is going to be your life someday’, but then again future Archie had wanted to help his dad, to be like his dad, and why not? His dad was pretty great.

“Okay, perfect, you get to be a knight. You’ll carry a sword.”

“Big sword!”

I grinned. “Yeah, good point, this is a tiny sword, you want...” I followed his eyes to the plastic swords on the wall. One was a replica claymore, longer than he was tall.

I pulled it down. “This is a very big sword, is that the one you want?”

“Aye.” He said in the cutest little toddler voice and there was literally no way I was not going to buy it for him. Even if he would have to drag it around behind him or I would have to drag it around as I carried him trick-or-treating.

Trick-or-treating seemed like a long way away and we really needed to focus on what was at hand... a big ass hurricane bearing down on the coastline.

I sighed.

The baby kicked quite a bit, a lovely feeling that I adored.

Emma came around the rack with a bunny costume for Ben, but Ben streamlined for Archie’s really long sword. “Cool!” He said in his little baby voice so it sounded like coow.

He looked up at Emma with big baby eyes and said, “Me sword too?”

Emma looked at Archie and then at the costume in her hand. “You want to be a knight? You really wanted to be a bunny—”

“Bunny with sword!”

Emma stifled her laugh, “Okay, perfect, bunny with a sword. Your dad will love it.”

I asked, “Beaty? Do you want a costume?” But Beaty wasn’t in the store.

I passed my armful to Emma and went out to the parking lot to check on her.

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