special woman to make me contemplate that, you know without feeling jealousy and stuff,” Grant said slowly and Jessie looked at him.
“ Yeah, it would,” Jessie agreed. “Who would you consider being your partner in a relationship like that?”
“ Only one man I can think of.” Grant smiled and looked at Jessie closely.
“ Me too,” Jessie admitted.
“ It has been a long time since we were together,” Grant said slowly. Even though they had been close when they were younger, Grant liked to think they were still close enough to share a woman together. It had been something they had talked about when they were growing up.
“ What are you thinking?” Jessie said. “I mean, I have issues, sometimes nightmares, and the woo woo doctor says I have PTSD. I'm not sure I am the same man I was before.”
Grant stared at his friend. Jessie was the same, he just didn’t realize it yet. Grant wanted to be there for his friend, help him get back what he thought he had lost. Being without close friends for the last few years made him realize what he lost when Jessie left. Grant wanted it back, seeing his friend again made him yearn for something he knew was missing. But changing his whole life was crazy, wasn’t it. For a woman he just met, and a man he thought he knew?
“ I don’t know. I feel something for Brin, maybe it was going through such an intense situation with her. I just feel like somehow she belongs to me. Seeing you again makes me hopeful we can build our friendship back. It may be crazy, but I really want to see where this leads,” Grant admitted.
“ You know, sometimes you don’t argue with fate. I learned the hard way with the guys. I thought we were going to be together forever, but it wasn’t in the cards. Now, I just want to be happy. I don’t know if I can handle committing to someone and then losing them, or letting them down. Alex, my teammate, and his friend are the perfect example. Slone is his back up, though they would never think that one of them is less involved. They work as a team, and I want that,” Jessie admitted.
“ We have a lot to talk about then,” Grant said. “You know my uncle always said when he and his brother met my aunt it was like a lightning strike, both of them kinda knew.”
Jessie nodded and looked up at his friend. “ Yeah, that is what my friends said too.”
“ Their children were just that too…theirs,” Grant said and touched the baby boy's face.
“ It gives a man something to think about.” Jessie smiled.
“ Plus, when one of them is gone, the other one could handle the home base, you know, in case there was danger,” Grant said.
“ It would take a commitment from all of them,” Jessie said.
“ That is the good thing about these relationships, knowing someone always has your back. I missed that over the years,” Grant said and Jessie nodded.
They continued to talk quietly in the corner as they watched over Brin and the baby. It seemed like only a few minutes before they heard the baby stir. Jessie stood, went to the bassinet, and looked down at his son. He would never grow tired of looking at him, Jessie thought as he picked him up.
He felt Mark standing next to him. “ It’s time ,” his friend whispered and Jessie looked back at Grant.
“ Grant, do you believe in ghosts?” Jessie said and Grant laughed.
Brin tried to open her eyes . She was just so damn tired. It took her a moment to remember where she was. But when she did, her eyes popped open and she looked frantically for her baby. Had she slept through him waking up? The nurse explained for the first few days, adjustments would be made until they got a routine down that worked for them.
Of course, she knew that. With her future so unsure, she had no idea how this was going to all work. The feeling of helplessness flowed over her again. She was going to have to face reality soon, where
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