Two Days Before My Wedding, My Fiancé Left Our Video Call Open by Accident — and I Heard His Mother Ask, “Did You Get Her to Sign It?”
He just didn’t know it yet.\n\nChapter 7 — The Children Sleeping
I stood up, and I smoothed the bedspread where I had sat, and I walked quietly out into the living room.
Ben had fallen asleep on the floor under a blanket, one arm flung over his head the way he had slept since he was a baby.
On the couch, Ava and Lily were curled into each other, two dark heads together, the way they had slept since the night they came to me and could not bear to be in separate rooms.
The television murmured to no one.