A Second Chance at Love

Christmas Eve was spent sitting around, laughing and talking. Raina and my sister had a blast, she was hysterical at some of things my sister told her from my childhood.

Megan had gotten back to the house around dinnertime and Claude looked quite comfortable with his arm slung around her shoulder, sitting on the sofa drinking hot chocolate and watching the boys play Wii.

It was so nice to have a family holiday all together. Even Raina seemed relaxed. Most of her work was done. She had already pre-warned Claude and I that we had to carry all of the gifts over from her house once the boys went to sleep. I couldn’t even imagine where we were going to put all of this stuff. She already had gifts stack all along the walls for the various family members and team members she had bought for.

Soon enough she made the boys go to sleep. She looked exhausted, laying on the recliner with a big blanket wrapped around her. My mom had already went upstairs to sleep and Danielle was busy talking to Megan and making plans for the next few days. I laid on the recliner beside her and rubbed her tummy.

She looked up sleepily and smiled. She snuggled up to me and within minutes was sound asleep. Once I made sure the boys we asleep, Claude, Danielle, Megan and I went across the street. “Is she fucking crazy?” Claude laughed as he took in the scene.

I had to smile. She had went completely overboard. There were stacks of boxes everywhere littering her basement, each labeled neatly. I looked over at Claude and shook my head. She had gotten Carson and Ryan motorized scooters and Cameron a quad, all which had been put together already.

Claude had found a pile of stuff with his name and looked at me with a wicked smile. “Don’t, you know she will seriously kill you”, I warned.

He just laughed and shook each box trying to figure out what was inside. It took us the better part of an hour to take everything across the street. There was no room to walk anywhere in the living room.

We had to readjust everything and take all of the visitors gifts into the den so we had room in the living room for the morning. We didn’t head up the steps until three o'clock. I woke Raina up. I didn’t have the energy to try and carry her up the steps.

We climbed right into bed. “Merry Christmas baby” she cooed, kissing my earlobe.

“Seriously Raina, what did you take a power nap?” I teased.

“You know I always want you” she replied her hand slipping below the band of my pajama pants. “Danny, please. I need you.” She whispered into my ear sending shivers down my body.

How could I resist her? She had some kind of power over me. I could never turn her down. We finally fell asleep close to five o'clock, the sun slowly rising.
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“Dad, ummm Dad, can we get up now. Uncle Claude said to come bother you” Carson tried to quietly whisper to me. I looked at him with one eye open. It was seven o'clock.

Ryan was already tugging Raina by the arm. “Come on mom, it's Christmas. You need to get up now.”

I stood up and put on a shirt, yawning. “Come on beautiful. Our kids are waiting impatiently by the steps."

She threw on one of my hoodies that was thrown on the floor and started downstairs. The boys opened gifts for what seemed like forever. My sister just laughed in awe at the feet of wrapping paper she had to wade through to get across the living room. I held Raina close and we took pictures of the boys.

Danielle had started breakfast which gave us an opportunity just to relax and enjoy the boys. I pulled her into a hug. “Raina, I need you to do me a favor. Find a good family lawyer. I want to adopt him if that’s possible."

Tears spilled down her cheeks and she nodded. My sister and I had discussed it last night and she agreed it was reasonable to ask. I felt like his dad already and she had little to no contact with his family. I wanted him as my own, as much as I wanted her as my own.

Notes

:) So sweet.