Total pages in book: 71
Estimated words: 71625 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 358(@200wpm)___ 287(@250wpm)___ 239(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 71625 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 358(@200wpm)___ 287(@250wpm)___ 239(@300wpm)
I found myself on my back, and Steel between my thighs, in a matter of moments.
“You’re serious?” he asked.
I nodded, suddenly finding a smile on my face. “A hundred percent. Stone Cross is kind of cute, right?”
I swear to God, I’d never seen Steel cry. But his eyes got a little misty, and he looked away.
“Nothing would make me happier. Nothing.”
I smoothed my hand over Steel’s face, down his beard, and cupped his neck on both sides.
“Then it’s decided.”
He nodded. “You’ve made me one of the happiest men in the world, Winnie.”
My lip trembled. “When all that was happening to me with Matt…I didn’t think happiness would be in the cards for me again. I didn’t think that I would find something like that again. And I didn’t find that same happiness again. Because this, what you and I share, isn’t something that I ever had before with anyone. This is something totally different, new and pure. Sometimes, when I wake up in the morning by your side, I can’t believe that this is my life.”
He smoothed back my hair. “This is our life, baby. Better get used to it.”
***
Steel
Eight months later
“Stone,” I said to the headstone. “I’d like you to meet your namesake. Stone Connor Cross.”
The little boy that had defied all odds. The little boy that’d come kicking and screaming into this world, his hand securely wrapped around the IUD that was supposed to prevent him from happening.
Stone Connor Cross, my two-day-old son, raised his tiny fist in the air and then brought it down lightly on the stone.
Then, a cloud blocked out the sun, and a beam of light shone down onto the headstone, darkening everything but one word: LOVED.