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Mom's Words

Blake

“The lack of screaming babies does hold a certain appeal,” I told Aston with a smile.

“Not for long,” she said, in a sing-song voice. “Soon enough, there’ll be a screaming baby right here with you.”

“Yeah, but he’ll be mine so it won’t be as annoying.” I’d heard somewhere that everything your own baby did was cute, even the stuff that irritated the crap out of you when it wasn’t yours.

“He?” Her eyebrows lifted. “What if it’s a she?”

I lifted my shoulders. “It doesn’t matter. I’ll be happy either way.”

“You will?” She asked quietly.

I nodded. “I will, I promise. It all just needs to sink in a little.”

“Okay.” She sat back in her chair, looking around the cabin again now that we were in the air. After taking a few minutes to absorb her surroundings, she faced me with a serious expression. “You know, I never wanted money. I just wanted enough to get by so I wouldn’t have to worry like my parents did.”

“You’ve done extremely well for yourself, Aston. Not many people can say that at
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