A Case Reopened [Book Two]

Twenty-Six

Olivia looked at her son as tears welled in her eyes.

"Mathias? What did you just call me?" Olivia breathed tearfully. She never thought she'd hear Mathias call her Momma ever again. She honestly has thought that they didn't need her anymore or that they didn't love her because they had Lou and Ava taking care of them. They had two loving mothers that would do anything for them.

"No  matter what Mommy tells us... or how much we love our new Mommy... you are our Momma..." The brave little boy breathed. Olivia realize that Mathias wasn't that much of a little boy anymore. He was ten and so very tall and lanky. He was the spitting image of Lou, from his fiery red hair to his sparkly green eyes. He was still everything that Olivia had fallen in love with the moment he took his first breathes weeks before he was supposed too.

"Come here." Olivia whimpered. She opened her arms up and quickly hugged the kids close.

No matter the fact that Olivia was remarried and had three kids of her own, these two kids were her first children. They made her a mother. They healed her broken heart after Dwayne passed and after her traumatic miscarriage. She hated to leave them behind, but after everything that had happened she couldn't stay to be with them. She had to get away and experience life without Lou and her abusive ways.

"Is everything okay, darling?" Amanda asked as she came down the stairs with Teddy and Cora.

"Everything is good... very good." Olivia sniffled from where she still had her arms wrapped warmly around the two red heads.

"Who's that?" Mathias asked, as he and his sister stepped away from Olivia. They wiped tears from their cheeks as they looked at Amanda and the two little kids.

"That is my wife, Amanda. And two of our three kids. The little boy is Teddy and the the baby is Cora." Olivia smiled. She walked over and lifted Teddy up. He quickly buried his face into his mother's hair.

"Are they our siblings?" Nicole asked, her small face covered in confusion. Olivia looked past Nicole and saw Lou standing in the doorway of the kitchen. Lou swallowed hard before nodding.

Even if DNA didn't make them siblings, the fact that Olivia was their mother did. It was still such a messy situation, but Olivia was hoping this happiness would last. That she may be able to be a real part of their lives.

"They are."

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After Lou and the kids left, Olivia and Amanda put the kids down for their afternoon nap. Olivia pulled her wife down in their bed before gently running her hands over her body.

"You are happy." Amanda breathed as Olivia started to kiss her neck. Olivia didn't stop, but she was really happy. She was happy to the point she wanted to celebrate in a way. Even if that meant just kissing her wife until her lips were red and raw.

"Darling. Hey, stop." Amanda spoke, as she pushed her wife away a bit. Olivia looked at Amanda with confused brown eyes.

"Are you not enjoying this?" Olivia whispered.

"Darling, I absolutely love when you kiss me. I wish we could kiss all day everything day, but we have kids and I have a job. So while Hunter is at school and the younger two are sleeping, we should try to talk..." Amanda trailed off. Olivia nodded slowly before leaning back. She kept her hands on her wife's hips as she stared into her blue eyes.

"Okay. What do you want to talk about? Because if it's a quick topic, then we can get back to kissing as soon as we are done." Olivia smiled.

"Now that Mathias and Nicole are back in your life, are we going to try and incorporate them into our family? Should our kiddos know about what happened? Like how you were married to Lou and had two kids with her? That they have two older siblings that might be staying here with them? Because I don't want our kids to feel like we love them less because Mathias and Nicole are around and we have to get to know them..." Amanda breath.

Olivia rolled over onto her back as she sighed softly. She didn't know what to say. She didn't even know if Lou would allow her to have real time with the kids or if today was the first and last time she'd see the kids before they became adults and got to make their own choices.

"I guess that we will have to talk about this all with Lou and Ava. Especially if we might be coparenting or something... but if you don't want to do this, just tell me. I know you weren't ready three years ago and you may not be ready now either." Olivia whispered.

"For some reason, I feel like today was too good to be true." Amanda admitted with a sigh.

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Olivia was worried that Amanda was right. That the visit was a one time thing. That she would never really get to know them. That this would be just another heartbreaking situation that she'd have to try and make it through without showing her pain. Her anger.

"Hey, bestie." Elliot smiled, as he walked towards where Olivia was sitting on the deck of his house. Olivia stood slowly before looking at Elliot.

"Are you free to talk for a little bit?" Olivia breathed nervously.

"I always have time for you, Liv. Now, what's happening?" Elliot asked. He helped her sit down on the porch swing before grabbing her hand and squeezing it tightly in his much larger hand.

"On Mandy's day off, Lou showed up with the kids. I guess she has been telling them about me. How I had been their mother. Mathias even called me Momma..."

"Whoa..." Elliot breathed and Olivia nodded.

"I know. It's kinda crazy. And I don't know what to do now..."