Total pages in book: 57
Estimated words: 55305 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 277(@200wpm)___ 221(@250wpm)___ 184(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 55305 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 277(@200wpm)___ 221(@250wpm)___ 184(@300wpm)
I am Janey Marie.
Loved.
Chosen by two cowboys, carrying a baby who will never have to wonder whether they were wanted, because they always were, despite the fear.
I’m still a vet, but I’m doing it for myself now. It’ll take time to build a business, but I’m happy to take the time. I want to be around for the baby, and Mason and Brookes are happy to earn most of the bread while I nurse for a year.
To be honest, they’d support me if I said I never wanted to work again, but that isn’t me. I love my job and the satisfaction it brings, but I’m content for it to take up less of my life while I focus on starting a family.
The road ahead won’t always be easy. There will be stares, whispers, and difficult conversations. There will be forms with only one blank for “father,” and people who think love should fit inside the lines they were handed.
But there will also be mornings in our kitchen with flour on the counter and Mason’s hands on my waist. There will be evenings on the porch with Brookes’s head in my lap and the baby kicking beneath my ribs. There will be holidays crowded with too much food, too much noise, and more love than any of us knows what to do with.
There will be lullabies.
Tiny boots by the door.
Two cowboys learning how to braid hair, build forts, or soothe nightmares.
A baby sleeping against Mason’s chest.
A toddler riding on Brookes’s shoulders.
Me, watching them both and wondering how I ever thought I had to choose between the two halves of my heart.
Mason kisses my temple, lingering there. Brookes lifts my hand beneath the table and presses his mouth to my knuckles.
I lean back, tucked between them, surrounded by laughter and noise and the sweet, certainty of the life we’re building together.
For the first time, I don’t feel like I’m running from anything. I’m exactly where I belong.
I was bred by two cowboys, claimed by a life I never saw coming, and brave enough to choose the happiness waiting for me.
And now, with our baby growing beneath my heart, and both my men beside me, I finally understand what happily ever after really means.
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