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作者: Bigbaby
last update 公開日: 2026-07-18 08:48:41

TRENTON

I looked at my daughter across the kitchen table and thought about everything she'd navigated this year. Her grief about Isolde, her anger about Bronwyn, her long road to acceptance, her genuine joy now about the twins.

She'd become someone extraordinary without me fully noticing when it happened.

"Your mother would like this version of you," I said.

"I learned from her." She picked up her coffee. "Stop counting years, Dad. Just be there. That's the whole job."

Monday I called Brilliana
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  • Uncle's Good Girl    66

    BRONWYNWhat followed was the most concentrated period of my life. Bronwyn working harder than anything I'd ever watched anyone do, the medical team moving around her and Dr. Martinez telling me everything that was happening. Then at four forty-seven PM the room changed.A sound arrived that rearranged everything.Our daughter arrived into the world with a cry that was fierce. The medical team moved with her quickly, a small wrapped bundle appearing in a nurse's arms, and I couldn't speak at all.I looked at Bronwyn who was crying without sound, completely spent, watching the nurses with our daughter."She's beautiful," the nurse said. "Strong lungs."Then the room shifted again, everyone refocusing, and our son arrived six minutes later, his cry different from his sister's, almost indignant, like he objected to the entire process.The nurses brought them to us in sequence, our daughter first, wrapped and cleaned and blinking with unfocused newborn eyes. They placed her in my arms whi

  • Uncle's Good Girl    65

    BRONWYNThe boardroom on the fourteenth floor of the Boston headquarters had floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the city, a long mahogany table that seated twenty, and excellent acoustics for presentations.None of these features were relevant to me when I felt the warm rush of fluid that no amount of professional composure could reframe as anything other than what it was.My water had broken in the middle of my Thompson campaign presentation, slide seven of twenty-two.The room had twelve people in it. I was standing at the front with a laser pointer in my hand.For approximately three seconds I stood completely still, running a rapid calculation, I knew the nearest hospital being four miles away."Excuse me," I said, with a calm I would later find impressive in retrospect. "I need Marcus."Marcus Webb was on his feet before I finished his name, clearly having processed what was happening faster than the rest of the room. He crossed to me while confusion rippled through the other a

  • Uncle's Good Girl    64

    TRENTONI looked at my daughter across the kitchen table and thought about everything she'd navigated this year. Her grief about Isolde, her anger about Bronwyn, her long road to acceptance, her genuine joy now about the twins.She'd become someone extraordinary without me fully noticing when it happened."Your mother would like this version of you," I said."I learned from her." She picked up her coffee. "Stop counting years, Dad. Just be there. That's the whole job."Monday I called Brilliana into my office and formalized what had been informally shifting for months."COO," I said, sliding the paperwork across my desk. "Full authority over day to day operations. You report to me but you run the company."She looked at the papers then at me. "You're sure?""I've been sure for a while." I leaned back. "Rhiggs Development doesn't need me managing it hour to hour anymore. It needs me directing it strategically." I paused. "And I'm having twins in two months."She signed without further

  • Uncle's Good Girl    63

    TRENTONI woke up at three AM again, my pillows soaked with sweat, my thoughts spiralling and I had to sit up to breathe. It was another nightmare again and it was getting a lot more frequent and I didnt want to tell my wife. I didn't want to worry her.The bad dreams was that I died before I could watch my twins grow up, and when I woke up from those dreams I would stay awake at night, doing all sorts of calculations. If the twins were born now, I'd be forty eight. When they start school, I'd be fifty three. When they learned to drive, I'd be sixty three. When they graduated high school, I'd be sixty six.Sixty six years old with eighteen year old children.My father had died at sixty two.I knew the math was destructive. Bronwyn would tell me to stop if she could hear my thoughts. I also knew intellectually that counting years was the least useful thing I could do with the time I actually had.But knowing didn't stop the counting.On a Tuesday morning, I was in my home study reviewi

  • Uncle's Good Girl    62

    BRONWYNOn Saturday afternoon we sat on the floor of the half-finished nursery eating takeout from the Italian place while Trenton and Eleri assembled cribs in the next room. The sounds of instruction-reading disagreement drifted through the wall periodically."I want to be here when they're born," Eudora said. "I already requested leave."I looked at her. "Eudora—""I know it's a lot to ask. It's your moment and Trenton's moment and I don't want to intrude." She picked at her food. "But they're going to be my siblings and I want to be there. If that's okay.""Of course it's okay." I reached over and squeezed her hand. "It's more than okay."She nodded, satisfied. "Eleri wants to meet them too. He's already researching pediatric development which is completely unnecessary since I'm a doctor but I'm letting him have it.""That's very evolved of you.""I'm very evolved." She looked around the nursery. "This room is going to be full in two months.""I know." The reality of that hit me se

  • Uncle's Good Girl    61

    BRONWYNThree months after the wedding, I finally looked pregnant.No, not ambiguously bloated or suspiciously full after dinner, but genuinely, unmistakably pregnant with a belly that arrived ahead of me into every room and made strangers smile at me in grocery stores.Twin pregnancies apparently didn't waste time.The morning sickness had mercifully subsided around week sixteen, replaced by an appetite that startled me daily and an energy level that swung unpredictably between unstoppable and completely depleted with nothing in between.I was learning to work around it.Tuesday and Wednesday in Boston had become my high output days, when I scheduled client presentations and board meetings. Thursday and Friday in Pinehaven were for the local office and remote work, more forgiving of the afternoons when I needed to put my feet up for an hour.It wasn't perfect but it was working.The Pinehaven office had exceeded first quarter projections by thirty percent. Three major clients secured

  • Uncle's Good Girl    3

    BRONWYNI moved towards him, my skin bristling with sexual energy. His heated eyes were on mine as I moved across the room, putting a little sway in my hips.I saw the arrogant sneer in his face but I brushed it off. When I reached him, he instantly put a log in my hands. "You're going to help me b

  • Uncle's Good Girl    2

    My muscles screamed at me to stop but I didn't listen, I continued to push the weights up and down again. It was five already, way earlier than I usually hit the home gym, but my entire night was plagued by thoughts of 'her'.Sweat dripped down my face but I barely felt it. I needed to vanish thoug

  • Uncle's Good Girl    1

    BRONWYNMy hands gripped the steering wheel so tight my knuckles turned white. The Rhiggs estate sat in front of me like the beautiful castle it was. I could see Christmas lights blinking from every window. It looked welcoming but I was terrified at the same time.I hadn't seen Trenton Rhiggs in a

  • Uncle's Good Girl    5

    BRONWYN The blizzard became worse over the next three days. There was no sign of it letting up. I and Trenton used it to our advantage. There was really nothing for us to do so we made love everywhere. On the morning of the third day, I woke up alone in his bed and pulled on his shirt from the nig

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