Rise by Leslie McCauley

Author:Leslie McCauley [McCauley, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781701626089
Publisher: Independently published
Published: 2019-12-03T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Just the Two of Us

I am staring at the most perfect man I have ever met. For the first time in a long time, I am happy, blissfully happy. I have never felt like this before. It is amazing. I look up at my mother and she is in awe of him as well.

“May I hold him?” I think this is what she says. It’s hard to tell through her sobs.

“Of course, Grandma.” I gently pass him to her, and she takes him with care into her arms. He looks like a little porcelain doll in her embrace. “He is magnificent, isn’t he?” she nods but doesn’t speak. Her chin is quivering still. She doesn’t hold him long before passing him back to me.

“I need to go get your dad! He is probably freaking out.” She rushes out of the room and it is just me and my little man for a few precious moments. I gently stroke his forehead and his eyelids gently fall closed. I put my face against his and smell his sweet baby smell. I can feel his breath rhythmically in and out. He fits perfectly into my arms. As if he is where he was meant to be. At this moment I don’t doubt that this is God’s plan for me. I was meant to be his mother and he was meant to be my son. I am truly blessed.

There is a soft knock at the door and my father pokes his head in. He smiles and tiptoes over to us. I don’t think I have stopped smiling. Daddy places his hand on the baby’s head and lets out a sigh.

“Wow, he is perfect. Just handsome.” Just like you Dad.

“Here, you can hold him. He just fell asleep. You should see his eyes. He has my eyes,” thank God.

“He looks like you when you were born.” He holds Evan in his arms and gently kisses him on the tip of his nose. He lifts the cap gently from his head just enough to see the mess of dark hair on his head. He looks at me wide-eyed and mouths. “Wow.” He is in love too. How can you not be with such a perfect little innocent being? “I can’t believe I am a grandfather. I must be getting old, huh kid?” He says to the baby. Well, the circumstances are not what any of us had planned. I hoped to have a hell of a career going right about now and fall in love and then have babies. But it’s okay. God had a different plan for me.

“Do you want to stay awhile? I wouldn’t mind closing my eyes for just a bit. I am so tired.” I can hardly keep my eyes open. Who knew this whole process could be so exhausting?

“Sure honey. We’ll just sit right here next to the bed and rest too. How about that little guy? Sound good to you?” I guess now I am chopped liver since the cute baby has arrived.

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