That sentence stayed with me.
Because he did exactly that.
I let them live in my house.
I gave them one of the spare rooms for the babies.
We chose paint together.
We bought two small cribs.
We started collecting tiny clothes in pairs.
Sometimes I would stand in the nursery doorway at night and imagine myself holding one grandchild in each arm.
Rose seemed happy.
Nathan began working longer hours.
And for the first time in a long time, I thought:
“Maybe everything is falling into place.”
But now I know that peace existed only on the surface.
A few weeks later, something happened that made me question everything I thought I knew.
That day, I left work earlier than usual.
On the way home, I stopped at a store.
I bought diapers, two little blankets, some baby clothes, and two tiny stuffed toys because I couldn’t bring myself to buy one without the other.
