“Mommy, you and Daddy don’t have to be nervous. Billy and David are in my class. I’ll be okay.”
Garrett came running back towards them holding up the lunch box. “Got it. Switch.” Imani traded off Harper in exchange for Gary’s little hand. He’d grown so much in such a short time.
The four of them walked into the school hand in hand with Garrett Jr. in the middle. He saw his friends and let go of his parents to run toward them. He stopped in mid-step then turned around and jogged back. “I love you, Mommy.” He kissed Imani on the cheek, and she hugged him so tight she thought he probably couldn’t breathe. Adopting him had been one of the greatest gifts she’d ever received. When she finally released him, he ran over to his father.
“You too, Daddy.” Garrett wrapped his arms around his little shoulders. As soon as he let go, Garrett Jr. ran off to class.
Harper continued to sleep through everything. Imani and Garrett couldn’t bring themselves to leave right away. They stood outside the classroom like all the other parents taking pictures until, finally, they were ushered out by the school administrators.
“I’ve got to send first day of school pictures to my Mom and Dad. Oh, Aaliyah sent new pictures of Chloe too.”
“She’s the spitting image of her parents. Did Drew and Aaliyah set a date for the wedding?”
Imani shook her head. “No. I don’t know what they’re doing. She’s playing hard to get – I think.”
“Maddon might get married before they do.”
Imani scrunched up her face. “I hope not. I can’t believe he’s letting Vanessa back into his life.”
“When I talked to him last, he wasn’t quite sure what he was doing with Vanessa.”
Garrett and Imani walked back to the car arm in arm. Garrett didn’t know how emotional he would be for his son’s first day of school. “I don’t know if I can do this again with Harper.”
Imani smiled. “I know. Hopefully, Garrett Jr. and Harper will make it easier when we have to do this again in . . . say, five years.”
Garrett froze. “What? Five years? Are you?”
She took a deep breath. “Yes.”
He didn’t say anything.
Imani lost her nerve waiting. “We have about seven months before we’re parents again.”
Garrett’s face didn’t give anything away, but then he pulled her into his arms and kissed her deeply. “I don’t think there are words to describe how I’m feeling right now. Ecstatic is too small a feeling.”
Imani exhaled and beamed. “You did promise me a house full of children.”
“I did, and I have no problem creating them with you. I just hope this time we don’t go into labor trapped in a high-rise. As a matter of fact, a month before delivery, I might not let you leave the house.”
She laughed. “Garrett! I have to work. I have a business to run, but I think it’s time to make Malika a full partner.”
Harper chose that moment to wake up just as they arrived at the car. She yawned and stretched in her father’s arms.
Garrett couldn’t ask for anything more. It was like magic. He had the woman of his dreams and a family of his very own.
Other Books by LaShawn Vasser
THE ONE THAT SLIPPED AWAY
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Every attempt to win her back has failed except for one. The letter. His last hope, the one Harrison poured his heart into, but even it eventually came back – Returned to Sender. Only then did he accept the truth. It was over. A part of him knew, this was the kind of loss he’d carry for a lifetime.
It took Mia Jamison years to recover from a broken heart only to meet the perfect man - a good man, a strong man with ambitions, and one who checked all the boxes on her list. If only . . .
If only, coming face to face with Harrison Haughton didn’t open up Pandora’s Box.
No more hiding. It was time deal with a past that had the potential to destroy more than one future.
A PERFECT STORM
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Just as Alexandro and Braylee seemed on the path to happily ever after, they found themselves in the middle of a storm. A powerful storm. A Perfect Storm. And, it had the name Gina Lee Xiou written all over it. Who was she? A lover from his past? What did she want? More importantly, could she blow up their lives with just a few words? And, would she dare? Find out in A Perfect Storm.
A STORM IS COMING
THIS IS BOOK ONE OF TWO
A Storm Is Coming is about a beautiful and tough as nails corporate attorney, Braylee Hinsdale, who must use every trick in the book to keep the handsome and powerful Alexandro Manchetti from losing everything.
Alexandro is powerful, handsome, ridiculously sexy and has just suffered an unimaginable loss. He needs her
