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Epilogue
Four years later

"Daddyyy! The same boy won't stop stealing my lunch at school" our eight your old daughter Lily yells,

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"Daddyyy! The same boy won't stop stealing my lunch at school" our eight your old daughter Lily yells,

We named her after Vanessa's mom, when we arrived at the adoption center to finally meet her, one look at that golden brown hair and she knew she wanted to name her after her mom.

She's a ball of energy, all smiles and laughs like her mother,

We adopted her at six years old...and the last two years with her have been more than everything I thought would be like to be a parent,

"I don't know sweetheart...maybe just give him a good little punch in the man part" I shrug holding eight-month-old Connor,

It's crazy how much luck we had with adoption...it feels meant to be, though it was still a long process.

Vanessa was terrified of having children herself, the fear of passing along the heart failure gene was enough to make her tremble every night when she'd have a dream about it,

So we decided adopting would be best...and when we got the all-clear with Lily, I had a vasectomy to ensure that fear wouldn't turn into a reality for Vanessa.

"Aaron! Don't teach her that" Vanessa scolds as she takes Connor from my hands to feed him,

I just watch her with a smile...

My beautiful wife.

A wonderful mother to our children.

My best friend.

My everything.

"What?" I chuckle, she raises a challenging brow at me

"Okay...violence isn't the answer, just steal his lunch or something" I reply to Lily and then chuckle at Vanessa's pout

'Dumbass' she mouth to me as she heads for the kitchen,

I grin...big and wide,

Feeling so full of life and joy over these past years, not being able to wrap my head around the fact that happiness truly is achievable in this cruel and terrifying world,

I suddenly hear a scream from the kitchen and run over to see what's wrong,

Getting to the kitchen, with concern evident in my voice I ask, "are you okay? Is Connor okay? What's wrong?"

I'm met with Vanessa grinning wide at her phone as she puts it on the counter,

"Zara's pregnant again, And guess what....guess! Ava is too!"

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