Dan’s son told him seriously. “Yay!” his sister Abby said from her car seat, clapping her chubby hands. “Marry Emma. Wanna go to Disney World!” Grandma Hellsbane? In one day my mother had completely won over Dan’s kids. Granted, she’d bribed them to do it, but that just proved how determined she was. Wow, I missed them—my mom, my nieces and nephew, even my sister. I wish I could’ve spent more than a few hours at the picnic, but I just couldn’t risk it. It was bad enough I’d gone at all. I used to hate those things…now I just wanted to cry for missing it. “You marry her, Daddy?” Abby asked. “We’ll see,” Dan said. I hid the goofy grin that suddenly took over my mouth. His answer sent a quick jolt of excitement through my belly, with an equally hard shock of dread. I wanted to get married…someday. But was Dan the one? And wasn’t the fact that I even asked that question a bad sign?
