Let It Go:
from LET IT BE
by K.D. WestHelen was happy.
Of course she was happy. Why wouldn’t she be happy? She had every reason to be happy.
Here she was, walking down the path from the beachside, open-walled cabin where she’d left her lovers, Al and Tommy, back asleep after an amazing morning of passion — of passion for real, as Tommy put it. Passion with a purpose. Passion to make the baby they all wanted.
She could feel the remainder of that passion as she sauntered down the sandy path toward the yoga studio, her rolled mat over her shoulder. It felt wonderful.
It felt… terrifying.
It was one thing to want a baby. To dream of a baby — especially when Helen’s longtime boyfriend Ben had said emphatically he didn’t want them.
Just as well.
If he’d wanted babies as much as she had
