He saw her sitting in a small hidden corner. The sun had set and most of the hospital visitors had left for the day. He tried to remember the night he had sat here, where one of the case managers had found him and given him the news that there was hope for his son. He looked around the room till he found a chair just a few feet from where Sarah sat. Had it been that one?
She didn’t look up when he came to sit next to her. He tried to think of what to say, but he couldn’t find the words. And then he saw the note that she had held earlier, she still had it in her hands.
“This is the note you should have received,” he said as he took the chair beside her. He held out a piece of paper of his own, a note that he’d written her.
“I’ve already received a note. It’s from a nice family. They sent a picture. He’s a beautiful little boy. He has blue eyes like Cody’s,” Sarah said as she stared down at the paper in his hand.
“But this is the one I should have sent you,” he said as he tried to get her to take the note from him.
“It’s okay, David. I was mistaken about Davey and even though you might not believe it, it doesn’t matter. I still love Davey just as much as I did before I received this note,” she said.
“I do believe you, Sarah. Look, how about I read this to you?” he said. What if she thought that what he had written was stupid? Why couldn’t he find the right words to tell her how he felt?
“Okay,” she said as she moved back away from him.
He cleared his throat. “Dear Sarah, I wanted to tell you thank you for the gift of love that you’ve shared with me and Davey...”
“But I didn’t, David...” she started to say.
“Just wait and hear me out, okay?” he said, then started to read again. “You’ve shown me a future that I’ve been too afraid to dream of until now. I hope you’ll accept my love in return for yours and agree to a future together with me and Davey. Love, David.”
He turned toward her and looked Sarah in the face. He had to face his fear of rejection head on now. But it wasn’t rejection he saw in Sarah’s eyes before she threw her arms around him and burst out in tears. He knew there were years ahead for them where there would be more tears, some of joy and some from pain, but as long they shared them with each other he knew they would be okay.
EPILOGUE
“PUT HER IN HERE,” Davey said as he led the way through the house to his new little sister’s room.
Secretly, Sarah had been afraid that bringing Kaitlyn into the same house that she had brought Cody almost seven years earlier would be painful, but instead it had felt right to bring his sister into the same room that had once been her brother’s nursery.
After David had accepted a permanent position at the hospital, there had been the decision of where the three of them should live. While she knew they couldn’t all move in with Jack, she couldn’t bring herself to leave her father-in-law by himself. Her old house had been left empty for so long that there had been a lot of work necessary to get it livable and then there had been changes that both she and David had wanted to make, but when the renovations had been finished and Davey had moved Humphrey to the small stable behind the house they’d all agreed that they had made the right decision to keep the house.
She’d let her memories of Kolton and Cody be clouded by the pain that she had felt when she had lost them, instead of enjoying all the memories they had made together before that tragic day. Since moving back into the house, she had learned to share those good memories with David and Davey, which made her feel even closer to the family that she had lost.
Laying their new daughter in her crib, Sarah and David watched as Davey made faces at his little sister.
“Are you sure she’s okay? Her face doesn’t look right,” Davey said.
He had worried about his sister since the moment they had told him that they were expecting, asking questions about whether she would have to get a new heart like he had. David had been very patient with him and they’d taken him to every obstetric appointment when they were planning to do ultrasounds so that he could see the pictures of his sister as she grew. Sarah herself hadn’t worried about the baby as she figured Davey and his daddy were worrying enough for all three of them.
“She’s perfect,” David said as he stared down at his daughter.
And, surrounded by her new family, Sarah knew things really were perfect.
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CHAPTER ONE
LOST.
Kiki Brown’s optimism hurtled to her toes as she searched the lush green Dorset landscape. Was it too much to ask for the planets to line up, or whatever they were supposed to do, so one small thing in her life went right?
She had no desire to win the lottery, or spend
