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My Brother's Best Friend's Secret Baby Chapter 152
Rosalie's POV I woke up at six. Lucy was still asleep. I could hear her through the baby monitor, her slow, steady breathing, the deep sleep of a child who had spent the day at a birthday party, eating cake and frosting and spending six hours playing dinosaurs with her friends. She would sleep until at least eight. I got up quietly. I made coffee. Real coffee, the quintessential morning ritual: the kettle, the grounds, the waiting. I never skipped it, even on mornings when I wasn't fully awake, because the ritual was part of what made morning feel like morning. I sat at the kitchen table with my mug. Outside, the city was doing what it always did at six on a Sunday morning: almost nothing. The particular quiet of a weekend morning, without the sounds of the workweek, the peaceful stillness of a world that hadn't quite started moving yet. I held my mug and thought about what I was doing. I wasn't a teenager anymore. That was the first thing I told myself. Not really to
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She didn't disappear. She was there, solid, real, and present, and she kissed me back in a way that confirmed she had made a decision too. That her yes was a real yes, not the reflexive yes of someone caught off guard. She placed a hand against my chest. Right over my heart. I could feel it through my shirt, the pressure of her palm, and beneath it, my heart doing what it always did when she was close. Something I had been aware of for months and had carefully avoided acknowledging. She could feel it. My heart. Her hand was resting over it, and she could feel what was happening. When we pulled apart, she looked at me. It wasn't the expression of controlled caution. Not the expression of before. It was something that belonged to after. Arrival. Finally crossing a distance that had been narrowing between us for months. "This doesn't fix everything," she said. "I know." "I still have things to work through." She said it simply, without hesitation or conditions. Just
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Aiden's POV The last child left at four-thirty. Lucy had already been inside for twenty minutes, and the crash came the way it always did after intense excitement with children. Sudden and complete. One moment, she was handing out the little party favors, dinosaur sticker sheets and plastic fossils she had prepared the night before, and the next, she was sprawled across the couch, frosting smeared on her cheek, her paper crown crooked, sound asleep. I covered her with the throw blanket. Rosie and I went back out into the garden. We cleaned up without discussing it. We did it the way we had learned to handle shared tasks over the past few months, without needing to formally divide the work. We simply saw what needed to be done and did it. She started with the tables, gathering paper napkins, cups, and whatever food was still good into the bag we had brought. I handled the chairs, folding them and stacking them along the garden wall where the rental company would collect them o
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I stood near the buffet table and watched. Aiden was by the gate, greeting the last arrivals and talking to a parent he had apparently met at a school event before, completely at ease in the role of a father throwing his daughter a birthday party. Something that would have seemed unimaginable in a hotel conference room eight months earlier. I watched him. He moved through the party with the same confidence I had seen during park visits and early-morning drop-offs. Fully present. His eyes stayed on Lucy, following her across the garden the way you watched the most important thing in the room. The gift opening came after the cake. The cake was green, topped with a triceratops that looked nothing like a cartoon and, I could confirm, was facing left. The baker had done an impressive job with the scales and horns, and Lucy stood in front of it for a full minute before declaring it acceptable. The candles were shaped like dinosaurs. Lucy blew them out in one breath and looked satisfi
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Rosalie's POV We planned it at his kitchen table. It was my suggestion, and I was a little surprised to hear myself make it. I had talked about the planning meeting like it was a professional project, as if organizing a formal meeting for a seven-year-old's birthday were a perfectly normal thing that required a precise schedule and a kitchen table. He said Saturday morning would work if Lucy was at Mrs. Willow's. I agreed and showed up with a notepad. We sat side by side at his table, a sheet of paper between us, and I wrote down the things Lucy had told me. I had already been doing the same thing in the margins of my own notes for two weeks because Lucy had been very clear about her requirements, and I didn't want to miss anything. The dinosaur theme. Nonnegotiable. That decision had been made in October. Ten friends from school. She had a precise list. She had ranked them by importance to the success of the party and entrusted the ranking to me, which I respected by not sho
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"Why not?" I asked. I knew the shape of the answer. I had heard versions of it in Dr. Harper's office and on his couch one Saturday morning. But I wanted to hear this particular version. The one from tonight, the one that came after three hours of intense conversation. "Every time someone showed interest," he said, "I thought about a dark-haired girl with a sketchbook in her hands, sitting at the kitchen table and drawing the light on a curtain. The girl who looked at me as if I were worth paying attention to."Not the soldier. Not the decorated officer. Me. Exactly as I was. The person hiding behind all the distance I kept between myself and everyone else." He stopped. "I couldn't find that in anyone else because I wasn't looking for anyone else." I made a small sound. It was quiet and involuntary, and I was glad he couldn't see my face. He heard it. "I know it isn't fair to put that on you," he said. "I know it puts a weight on the past that it shouldn't have to carry. I
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