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His mom nodded. “Yes, you have good friends that are like family and you love your job. I know Willow would follow you anywhere.”

“What about AJ?”

“Of course we will miss him, but we can visit and so can you. If it makes my boy smile again, I’ll make it work.”

“How did I get so lucky to land you as a mom?”

“I was the one who got lucky to be granted such wonderful sons. So, enough crying we’ve all done too much of that lately.” She swiped a tear from her own eye, and he smiled at she visibly pulled herself together. “Now, did you find anything useful in stopping this pig from hurting our girl?”

“Yeah, he told me where to find the file with all the info he had on it.”

His mom stood and patted her top over her denim jeans. “Good. Now hurry up, lunch is almost ready.”

Waggs saluted. “Yes, boss.”

“Smart ass. You’re not too big for a smack upside the head you know.”

Waggs chuckled as he folded the letter that was his most prized possession now. Tucking it back in the box where he’d found it, he picked up the next letter with the instructions on where to find the file drive and grinned. It was in the box for their favourite game—Call of Duty, of course.

He found it and sent a text to Decker to say he had it and he’d meet him back at Willow’s in two hours. He put the bed back how it was and left the box. It was safe here for now and he knew he could always come back to it when he wanted. That was what home was, always knowing you had a place with beautiful memories and love.

Chapter 18

“You’re in a particularly good mood today.” Willow grinned at Aiden as he lifted her feet from the floor of the kitchen chair she sat on and began to do delicious things to the soles with his hands. The man was a complete god with his hands and his mouth but right now it was the relaxed look of happiness without the shadow of sadness on his face she was focused on.

Aiden looked up at her through his sexy lashes, the quirk of his square jaw making her want to wrestle him to the ground and climb him like a tree. He was effortlessly sexy in a way that he had no idea he was, which doubled his quota of sexy.

“I am. We get to watch AJ play baseball with his little league and then I get to take my favourite girl out for dinner.”

Willow loved how much he liked being with AJ. She still hadn’t figured out a way to tell him but maybe she would that night when AJ was at his grandparents for the night. Since Aiden had found the letter from Aaron, he’d been different. As if he’d been given permission to live and love and she was seeing the old Aiden again.

“Are you sure Decker is okay staying over there and watching the house?”

“Yes of course. The added security measures would be enough, but Decker doesn’t mind.”

“He doesn’t seem very relaxed with kids. I noticed he’s pleasant but avoids them when possible. Does he not like them?”

Aiden cocked his head. “I don’t think it’s that, maybe he just can’t relate to them.”

Willow decided to let it go. Some people didn’t feel comfortable around kids and that was okay. She finished her coffee as Aiden rounded up AJ and enjoyed the moments of partnership she felt having someone in her corner to help with AJ.

“Got your cap, buddy?” she asked as AJ came racing through the kitchen from his room, Aiden strolling behind him.

“Yep.”

Willow looked at Aiden who was grinning over the top of his head. “Then let’s get going.”

The ride to the field was short and uneventful. Aiden was still on guard, but he was relaxed.

He caught her watching him and laughed. “What?”

“Nothing. You just seem, happy, relaxed.”

Aiden took her hand and kissed her knuckles. “I’m definitely the first and knowing we have people we trust at our backs makes the second moderately true. I’m excited for this game. I can’t wait to see him play.”

Willow hoped he wasn’t disappointed, this was only a little league game after all, but she loved watching her son play and grow in confidence.

Aiden parked and as they walked to the field, slid his hand into hers while AJ ran ahead to see his friends. She could feel the looks from the other moms on her and felt proud the man they were devouring with their eyes was hers.