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Becky, looking stunned as she searches my face, holds her tighter.
Our offspring makes a growling sound of discontent.
Sighing, I run a hand through my hair. “You should attempt to bounce her.”
Becky goes temporarily still. “What?”
I gesture to our daughter. “You aren’t bouncing her. Here. Please. Allow me to try.”
“I think she needs her diaper changed,” Becky says.
“May I please hold her?” I ask. “While we find a replacement elimination square for her rump?”
Becky blinks. Slowly, she looks down at our growling daughter. With a strange look at my face, she carefully holds out our discontented offspring.
With all gentleness, I take her in my arms. And I stare into her perfect tiny countenance.
With eyes that I would vow are focused on me, she gazes back.
I don’t even have to bounce her. She quiets immediately.
“Hello, Miss Mattie Cody,” I say to her.
Becky stares, stunned.
Feeling elated, I beam a smile at our daughter and my wife. “I believe C’vest is waiting to offer us assistance with an elimination square.”
“Wha—” Becky starts, interrupted by a soft knock at the door.
Carefully adjusting our daughter to one of my arms, I open the door to C’vest, who I sensed was waiting outside. He is, as I suspected, holding out a clean rump square.
“Thank you,” I say, and take it.
With a nod to us both, he shuts the door and I turn back to Becky. “How do I change this?”
Searching my face yet again, Becky motions for the bed, for me to lie our daughter down on its surface. She instructs me how to change a diaper.
We finish the task with my left hand on Mattie’s left side and Becky’s right hand on Mattie’s right side.
“Who gets to hold her now?” I ponder.
“You love me?” Becky says softly. Her gaze is on our daughter.
With my free hand, I gently cup Becky’s chin and raise it until her eyes meet mine. I stare solemnly at my woman, straight into her optic stems. “I love you.”
Becky’s shining eyes flood with tears. “I think I love you too.”
My thumb brushes over her ear. “You’ll have to tell me what challenge I must meet to earn your affection so definitively, youknowthat you love me—without a doubt.”
With a choked sound, Becky throws her arms around my middle and shoves her head against my chest, crying. “I already do!”
My brow is knitted. “I find your statements confusing…”
Becky hiccups.
Mattie wails.
I pat Becky on her back. “Our offspring requires reassurance. If I sit on the bed and you sit on my lap holding her, I can comfort you and her at the same time.”
