“I know you missed home. I do, too. You missed your family, but you almost missed the kids more.” He darted a glance at my mom, who was beaming.
“I know Danica missed those kids most of all. You don’t have to pretend she was pining for her dad and me.” Mom lavished Jeremy with a smile. “You’ve made us very happy. I’m going to tell Glen.”
She left, and I was standing there with Jeremy, next to the pool in the hot summer night air. “You’re relocating the headquarters? To Wilder River? It’s not convenient for business.”
“So much can be done online now. And the ski resort is so impressive that it’s a great destination for clients and business deals year-round. I’m putting in a small airport near it.”
Of course he was. “I’m just … stunned.”
“You missed teaching.”
“I did, but”—I looked up at the dark sky, nothing. It wasn’t time yet—“but I’m not going to only teach gymnastics. I’m going to teach reading and manners and faith and right from wrong.”
Jeremy’s brow furrowed. “You’re turning it into a one-room schoolhouse?”
Above us, a brilliant streak lit the sky. I pointed up to it. I loved the Perseids. I’d fallen in love with him beneath them.
“Shooting star,” Jeremy muttered. “But what is going on, Danica? Not … it can’t be. We’ve only been married two months.”
“Apparently it doesn’t really take more than two months.”
Jeremy threw his arms around me, spun me, and—we toppled into the swimming pool.
When I bobbed to the surface, feeling like a swan made of ice, Jeremy came up, sputtering and laughing. “That’s amazing!”
He pulled me to his heart, and we celebrated the start of our family.