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with Mia and stopped at the edge. She
pulled her hands out of his and gripped Mia’s knees. My sister soon
picked her up, happy to have a baby to cuddle.
    “Cole, kitchen,” Jasper said.
    “Jasper, why?”
    He deadpanned. “Do you need to question
everything?”
    “With you, yeah.”
    “Oh, will you just get up!”
    I stood. “Happy?”
    “ Never been happier.” He
nodded to the kitchen , and I followed. I wouldn’t admit that I was
intrigued because we could be going in there for absolutely any
reason. It could literally be anything.
    “Well?” I asked when nothing was out of
order. There were no broken appliances or water pouring out of a
pipe in the wall. All things he’d done in his own place.
    “Oh look, your wife is outside,” he said and
walked back into the living room.
    I didn’t give his oddness much thought when I
saw Oakley through the window. She shivered and waved at me to go
out.
    “What’re you doing?” I asked, opening the
patio doors.
    Holly laughed from beside her, squeezed
Oakley’s hand and walked inside.
    “Come here,” she replied, holding her hand
out.
    There weren’t many times that I wouldn’t
follow my wife, despite the below freezing temperature stabbing my
bare arms.
    “What’re we doing?” My body tensed. “Jesus,
Oakley, it’s so cold out here my balls have retreated,” I
hissed.
    Even though it wasn’t snowing we
still had a white Christmas. The snowfall from a few days ago had
lingered , and
the freezing temperatures would probably keep it here for a few
more.
    “ I
know ,
but you love the snow,” she said. “And Everleigh is excited to show
us the snowmen she built yesterday.”
    While we wrapped presents
yesterday ,
Everleigh spent the morning with Sarah and Miles. Miles had wrapped
them both up warm and spent an hour in the garden building a
snowman family.
    I laughed. “Yeah, but she’s too cold to come
out now!”
    “She’s too busy playing with her toys. I had
a feeling she’d do that.”
    Sarah and Miles were also light
crazy . Every
tree in their garden had lights wrapper around it. We walked around
to the side of the house where the two trees that Leona and
Everleigh had tyres hanging from were covered in twinkling
lights.
    Oakley squealed and pulled my hand. “There
they are!”
    Along the wall were three snowmen and in the
arms of which one was obviously me was baby Bentley. “What’s on
yours?” I asked, noticing something on the body of Oakley’s
snowman.
    She squealed again and laughed, pushing me
forwards so I could get a better look. My eyes widened when I saw
exactly what it was.
    “Oakley…?”
    “This is what I was doing when I snuck away
from the table earlier,” she said.
    I was stunned. Completely and utterly
stunned. On the belly, written in twigs was: #3
    “ I found out last
week .
I wanted to tell you but I wanted to do it in a fun way. Are you
excited? I know it’s soon after Bentley but–”
    I couldn’t let her ramble on anymore. I had
to kiss her. Grabbing her thick coat I pulled her against me,
gripped the back of her head and glued my lips to hers.
    My wife is fucking pregnant!
    She smiled through the kiss and flattened her
body against mine. Her lips were cold from the temperature but as
urgent and needy as my own. I moaned, bringing my hand around to
cup her jaw.
    Her skin was so soft. Every inch of her was
perfect to me. “I love you,” I breathed into the kiss. “I can’t
believe we’re going to be parents again.”
    She pulled away just far enough so that we
could talk properly. But she was still very close and at that
lips-almost-touching distance I had a hard time remembering my own
name let alone discussing our third, and total surprise, child.
    “I love you, too. It’s crazy, I know. The
doctor said that although you’re less likely to get pregnant when
you’re breastfeeding – we didn’t with Everleigh – it can happen.
Well, obviously it can because…” She gestured to her stomach.