Total pages in book: 66
Estimated words: 60219 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 301(@200wpm)___ 241(@250wpm)___ 201(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 60219 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 301(@200wpm)___ 241(@250wpm)___ 201(@300wpm)
I sighed.
This was better than anything I could have ever imagined. I knew it was a cliché, but it was true. Standing on the mound, staring down the best batters the majors could offer was nothing compared to lying on this couch in my wife’s lap, knowing that two of my children were happily asleep in their beds and the third was swimming around contentedly in Mallory’s stomach, occasionally kicking me.
I tried to remember the days of traveling around the country, playing baseball and not feeling complete. It had felt empty at times in a way that I’d never really understood. It didn’t make sense back then. I knew that I missed Mallory and wished that we could have found a way to stay in touch, to stay together, but I didn’t know what it was exactly that I was missing. Now I knew.
Mallory completed me in my soul. Not just as a wife but as a partner and as the other half of me. The two of us were creating a new generation of children who were going to go on and do great things. Owen was showing promise as an athlete already, but our little one was obsessed with painting with her mother. Who knew what our third child would be like?
I didn’t know, but I was excited to find out. I would be happy to spend the rest of my life with Mallory finding the ways our love had bloomed and affected our world.
I wouldn’t change this life for anything.
I fell asleep in her lap watching television, and when she woke me up an hour later, we shuffled off to our room to curl up together, my hand on her belly and her head on my chest. I drifted off to dreams of the rest of our lives together. I fell asleep with a smile.
The End