Chapter 10Cleaning up the mess I'd made in the kitchen should've only taken a few minutes, but I kept stopping to admire the pictures Aunt Deirdre had sent me. Emma was feeding and changing her baby cousin, Michael, and she looked so adorable. I wondered if I had enough energy to consider another child in the future. Although April hadn't said no, she also wasn't jumping at the idea. I didn't relish the thought of interrupted sleep, minimal free time, and the intense worry over every sneeze, cough, and cold.
I stared at the pancake batter, debating whether to add chocolate chips or blueberries. April preferred fruit, but I needed something sweeter. In many ways, we were drastically different from one another, yet in the last year, we'd connected via unexpected circumstances. It had been o
