Page 86 of Baby Blue
Pressing herself up from the sofa, Anne’s eyes lit up as she looked toward the sound and her face split into a huge smile. “Oh my god! She’s here!”
As soon as she was on her feet, Blue handed Indigo to her and Anne wrapped the baby in her arms. “Oh, my sweet baby! You’re here!”
“Brrrr aga!” Indigo said and patted Anne’s face.
“She’s here. And she’s never leaving,” Blue told Anne as his arms encircled two of the three women in his life. “She’s never leaving. She’s ours, babe, all ours.”
“Tell me! Tell me what happened! I was so scared, Brent, and then they started asking me all those questions about us, and I didn’t know?”
He interrupted her with a kiss. When he broke it, he said, “Sit down and I’ll tell you everything.”
It took him over an hour to tell Anne everything that had happened in the courtroom, and he watched as she went from horrified to laughing hysterically. “I’m telling you, if we hadn’t already won custody, that woman would’ve done it for us! She was a hoot! And you should’ve seen old Casey?he was livid!” Blue said, laughing.
“I bet! So are you going to let Cindy’s mom see Indigo?” Anne asked, still grinning.
“Yeah. I gave her my phone number. I hope she calls. I’d love for Indigo to get to know her.” Blue set the baby on the floor and she crawled a few feet to the play area Anne and the kids had made for her. “Look at her,” he said, watching Indigo. “Isn’t she just the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen?”
“One of them. I think Polly and Toady are pretty beautiful too,” she said with a gentle smile.
“I do too. They’re just as beautiful as that little one there.” He faced Anne and gave her a little kiss. “I love Polly and Toady.”
Anne looked at her hands instead of at Blue, and he wondered what she was thinking. It took her a minute to say, “Where’s this going?”
“What?”
“This relationship. Where’s it going?”
“Where do you want it to go?”
Anne just sighed. “I want to be with you.”
“I want to be with you too. Forever.” He’d never said that to a woman before. “And I want to do it the right way,” he added.
One of Anne’s eyebrows quirked up. “So what have you got in mind?”
“Well,” Blue said, grabbing her around the waist and hauling her back onto the sofa so she was lying in front of him, “I think we should go look at rings. I mean, if you want to. Do you want to?”
“I want to.”
“Good. That’s what we’ll do. How are we going to combine our households though? I’ve been thinking about it and I don’t know what to do,” Blue said, running a finger up and down Anne’s arm.
Anne snorted. “After what Galloway did today, I think we should sell both houses and buy one together somewhere else.”
“You’d do that?”
“Hell yeah, I’d do that. He tried to take our baby away. That pisses me off, and I’ll be pissed off forever because of that,” Anne said, her face reddening. “He tried to hurt you. I won’t have that.”
“Wow, you’re quite the mama bear when you’re mad!” Blue said, smiling, and kissed her cheek.
“Hell yeah I am! I won’t stand for that. Now, the kids will be home in a couple of hours and I have to go to work. Are we okay?”
“Yeah. We’re okay. Oh, and they read the results of the paternity test,” Blue told her.
“And?”
He laughed aloud. “Look out. You’re going to have a rough time with this one when she gets older. She’s one hundred and fifty percent Wallace!”
It had takenhim all of fifteen minutes to find a sitter. He’d tried the first two names in the little black book he’d been given at the shower, but they’d both been busy, although they told him to make sure to call them next time because they really wanted to get their hands on that baby. The third person on the list was Shelby, and when they’d dropped Indigo, Polly, and Toady off at Shelby and Glen’s house, the attorney and the nurse had looked positively ecstatic.
