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Chapters (36)
  1. Cover
  2. Praise
  3. Dedication
  4. One
  5. Two
  6. Three
  7. Four
  8. Five
  9. Six
  10. Seven
  11. Eight
  12. Nine
  13. Ten
  14. Eleven
  15. Twelve
  16. Thirteen
  17. Fourteen
  18. Fifteen
  19. Sixteen
  20. Seventeen
  21. Eighteen
  22. Nineteen
  23. Twenty
  24. Twenty-One
  25. Twenty-Two
  26. Twenty-Three
  27. Twenty-Four
  28. Twenty-Five
  29. Twenty-Six
  30. Twenty-Seven
  31. Twenty-Eight
  32. Twenty-Nine
  33. Thirty
  34. Thirty-One
  35. Booklist
  36. Excerpt

“I won, Dad! By a lot. Noah came in second. We’re going to team up to play against some guys from school, and we are going to keep winning.”

“Good for you.” Toby sat on the sofa. “I want to ask you something.”

“Sure, Dad.”

“I was wondering how you would feel if I started dating Reggie. I didn’t know if you were okay with that, because of what happened with Lori.”

His son stared at him. “She’s not like Lori, Dad. She’s totally different. I like her a lot. She’s nice and she’s funny. Plus, there’s Belle.”

“You mean you like her because she has a dog?”

“Not just that.” He frowned, as if trying to put his thoughts into words. “Some people think dogs don’t matter, but they do. Reggie is good to Belle, so I know she’ll be good to me. And at the accident, she was really worried about me, even though she was hurt and there was blood everywhere. She took care of me. I think we should love her.”

Toby swore silently. Everyone was taking swings at him tonight.

“You should marry her, Dad. Then she could be my mom, and we could be a real family.”

“We’re a real family now.”

Harrison rolled his eyes. “We’re a family, but it’s not the same without a mom. They’re important. They do stuff like make cookies and worry about you, but they also hug you and want to know you’re okay. It’s nice when moms do that. I see it with my friends and their moms. I think Reggie could love us, Dad. I think she’d be good for us.” He thought for a second. “That means we have to be good for her, too. We’re going to have to figure that out.”

Toby’s throat got a little tight. He pulled Harrison onto his lap and held him. “Don’t I give you enough hugs?”

“You give me plenty, but they’re not mom hugs. It’s just different.”

“I kind of know what you mean.”

His son looked at him. “So you’ll ask her out.”

“I will.”

“Yay!”

Thirty-One

“I’m wearing my prom dress,” Reggie said glumly. “Why does she hate me? I’m the baby of the family. I’m supposed to be special.”

Dena’s lips twitched, as if she was trying not to smile. “If it helps, the dress looks good on you. It’s a little 2000s, but otherwise, very pretty.”

“I feel like an idiot.”