Chapter 21 - MARCUS DID NOT REMARRY QUICKLYPeople expected me to find someone new.
A good woman.
A healing romance.
A replacement mother.
I rejected the premise.
Mia and Leo did not need a woman inserted into Sophia’s position.
They needed adults who earned specific roles slowly.
Five years after the baseball bat, I began dating Dr. Hannah Reed, the pediatrician who supervised Leo’s early recovery.
We had no secret courtship.
No sudden introduction.
I told the children.
They met her in public.
Mia asked whether Hannah wanted to live with us.
Hannah answered:
“No. I want to know you before asking for space in your home.”
Leo asked whether she gave time-outs.
She said:
“I am not your parent.”
That answer reassured him.
Hannah and I married four years later.
Before the ceremony, Mia and Leo reviewed the household agreement with us.
Locks.
Privacy.
Money.
Discipline.
Reporting concerns.
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Some guests called it unromantic.
Safety was romantic to me now.
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