Kingston Beginning's (Final Kingston Series Book)

BONUS BRODY CHAPTER 1

*this picks up at the end of Brody's Gem, Addie is still five years old meaning Gemma has been dead for five years as well.*

**(Edited)**

Brody's POV

So today's the day I'm supposed to take out Nicole and I know I won't be able to. I feel sick to my gut thinking about anything but Gemma. I don't want to move on, I don't because I'm still in love with my dead wife. I've never gotten over her and I never will.

Holding her picture in my hands I don't know what to do. I remember the day we took this, our wedding day. She was in the tightest dress that made her whole body look beautiful, and her hair was framed around her face. She's leaning onto my chest smiling as I grin as wide as I can with my arms around her. We took these after the ceremony and I still remember seeing her for the first time in her gown and crying my eyes out at how beautiful she was.

She held my hands before grabbing my face kissing my cheek to calm me down. I was shaking I was so nervous and she just held my hands rubbing them and told the pastor she would do her vows first since I couldn't even talk. When she got done I knew I should have went first, because hers were damn good. After our reception we went and took this picture. She helped me clean the tears off my face and she kissed me, like she'd never kissed me before that day. She fully gave herself to me, and I never felt happier than the moment she put my wedding band on.

And I miss her. I miss her more than I miss playing football. I miss her so damn much, and I want her back.

"Daffy.." I hear behind me from sitting on the bed as a very sleepy Adeline walks into my room. It's three in the morning and I can't sleep, I can't do it.

"What's wrong pumpkin?" I ask moving over and grabbing her into my arms as she lays in the bed next to me.

"I don't feel good." She tells me as I hold her little body into my chest. "Why's that?" I ask rubbing her back as she sighs into my neck.

"My tummy hurts." She tells me as I smile. I know why it hurts, she ate her body weight in cookies earlier at my moms house and now she's going to regret it.

"That wouldn't have anything to do with all those chocolate chip cookies you refused to share with daddy? Would it?" I ask as she giggles into my neck with her signature laugh that sounds just like Gem used to.

"Grandma makes some good cookies." She tells me as I laugh and rub her back. She squirms for a minute before grabbing my chest, "Daffy it hurts." She tells me rubbing my tee as I nod.

"Let's get you some medicine." I tell her as she latches onto my neck and I walk to the kitchen getting some indigestion medication and pouring it into a small cap. I make her take it before I mix some laxative in a cup and make her drink that too. Her little tummy's always upset and the mixture of those two usually make everything okay.

She holds my neck as we walk back through the house avoiding Pinky asleep in her bed as I go to her bedroom. I lay down on her big girl bed with her in the crook of my neck holding the side of it.

"Addie?" I ask her as she lays there with her pink bear on my chest. "Daddy" she tells me sarcastically as I smile.

"Do you like Ms. Nicole?" I ask her as she nods. "She's so much fun. And Elaine and I always eat cupcakes at her house and she tells me not to tell my daddy" She tells me not even realizing she just told me.

"What else do you do?" I ask as she smiles. "We play dress up and swim in the pool outside and play with the cat." She tells me as I nod.

"Do you want to see her more?" I ask her as she looks at me. "As in, with daddy there?" I ask her as she nods.