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She looks up at me from where her head is resting on Ava’s shoulder. “That’s alright with me,” she says quietly, her lips turned in a gentle curve, her eyes glistening.
The switch to the next song on the Nickelback record transitions to a gentle strumming of a guitar, the lyrics reminiscent of a simpler time captured in a photograph.
The words speak directly to me as I find myself wishing I could take a picture of Ava and Georgie as they are now, holding each other close.
I want to remember this moment.
Because seeing the love between them has me realizing that I will do everything in my power to make surenothingever tears them apart.
CHAPTER 15
AVA
There are notenough hours in the day.
Turning to a new page in my notebook, I start making today’s to-do list.
- Make next week’s schedule
- Prep documents for marriage license
- Order more espresso beans
- Contact Mia for Hey Honey’s spring merch designs
- Pick new Hey Honey’s logo (options in Mia’s email)
- Reschedule meeting with Lenny’s and Love & Lore
- Run wedding date and plans by Anderson
- Email Callie to update Georgie’s emergency contacts
- Pick up Georgie
- Make sure her homework is done
- Book Vegas flights
- Call hotel about getting rooms onthe same floor
Like I said, not enough hours in the day.
Setting my pen down, my head falls into my hands.
My office at Hey Honey’s is quiet aside from the soft humming of the espresso machines on the other side of the closed door and the calm jazz we always have playing through the speakers.
We opened about an hour ago, and even though I didn’t put myself on the schedule for today, I always get more done here in my office than at home.
I headed straight here after dropping Georgie off at school this morning, finally making it to drop-off on time.
Georgie, Emerson, and I are still getting used to maneuvering through our morning routines in tandem, the two-bedroom apartment we’ve been sharing for the last week feeling smaller and smaller with each day that goes by.
And of course, we get the routine down two days before Georgie and I move into Anderson’s.
The thought has me sitting up and picking up my pen, addingBuy packing boxesto my to-do list. My apartment lease with Emerson ends in a few months, so even though I won’t be staying at Anderson’s forever, I figured it makes more sense to move all my stuff out.
I haven’t told Emerson I’m moving out yet, because then I’d have to tell her the whole pretend story Anderson and I agreed to tell all our friends. And it’s not like I can’t tell her to hold my room because I’ll be back in a few months. So, I’ll have to find a new place for Georgie and me if—when—the adoption is finalized and Anderson and I get our divorce.
