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“You look stunning, baby.”
She smiles up at me as she finishes with my sleeve, and I can’t help but lean in and kiss her nose.
“You clean up pretty well yourself.”
I chuckle at her cuteness. I hope that even with everyone coming tonight, she will be able to keep this easygoing attitude. It makes me realize that I need to warn her about Victoria. They didn’t seem to have the best reaction to each other at the gala, and to be honest, they didn’t really get along before the accident either.
“Do you remember meeting Victoria at the art gallery?”
She grimaces, and I take it as a bad sign for what’s to come later.
“The woman who was convinced you went there for her? The one who couldn’t keep her hands off of you? The one who knows me and was less than thrilled to see me after disappearing for nine years?”
This isn’t going to end well.
“Uh, yeah. That one. She’s coming tonight. I invited her and her parents.”
Tanya freezes before looking up at me and raising an eyebrow.
“You invited her? Why?”
She drops her hands from my arm and takes a step back.
“I had to. I told you her parents and mine are close, and I couldn’t just invite them.”
She opens her mouth to say something, but before she can, the guests arrive. I hear my mother’s voice coming from the entry, she’s never been one to wait for admittance.
“Sounds like they’re here. Are you ready?”
The tense look fades from her face, and she turns pale and looks worried.
“Hey, hey. It’s okay. I’m going to be here the entire time, and everything is going to be okay. You’ll see. Everyone wants to see you, and I want you to get to know the people who were important to us before.”
I lean in closer to her and lower my voice.
“And we get to tell everyone about our little boy.”
Some color returns to her face as she rolls her eyes.
“Or girl. I’m telling you, if you keep it up, the baby is going to come out a girl, and you’ll have to eat your words.”
I smile at her, but everyone enters the room before I can say more.
“Chandler, honey, where’s my granddaughter?”
“Hi, Mom.”
I smirk at Tanya and turn to look for Sophia, who is curled into her aunt’s side looking nervous.
“Come here, sweetheart.”
Sophia gets up and slowly comes to Tanya and I. Tanya gives her a reassuring smile and holds her hand out to her. She kneels down to speak with her, and I head over to our guests.
“Hello everyone, come on in.”
I’m hoping that while they were on their way up that Mom caught them up on everything about Tanya. She walks over to my side and kisses my cheek.
“I let them all know that she doesn’t know who any of them are.”
