Total pages in book: 97
Estimated words: 93307 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 467(@200wpm)___ 373(@250wpm)___ 311(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 93307 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 467(@200wpm)___ 373(@250wpm)___ 311(@300wpm)
“She’s perfect,” I say and lean down to kiss Katy’s forehead. “You’re perfect. I love you so much.”
“I love you too.”
“Do you have a name?” one of the nurses asks, and Katy looks up at me with a soft smile on her face.
The name game. Man oh man, that’s been a difficult one for us. For the past six months, we’ve been trying hard to figure out a name for our baby. We have lists of boy and girl names, but we never actually decided on anything.
“She looks like a Hannah to me,” Katy says, and for some crazy reason, I couldn’t agree more. I guess, like everything else for us, the timing just had to be right.
“Hannah,” I say out loud. “Hannah Houston.”
“Yeah?” Katy asks and I nod.
“Yeah, babe. It’s the perfect name for our perfect girl.” I kiss both of them on the forehead. “Hannah Banana, we love you so much.”
“Oh no,” Katy says through a laugh that makes my heart melt. “A nickname already?”
I grin. “Katy Cat, it’s only right, you know?”
“Yeah, Big Mack,” Katy replies with a big smile. “It’s only right.”
“Dad, I think I need to let you know that you have a room full of impatient family members in the waiting room,” a staff member updates as she walks into the room. “I’ve had several people come up to the desk for updates.”
Katy laughs. “I think you need to go out there, Mack. Otherwise, my dad might stage a riot.”
I don’t want to leave my girls, but I give Katy and Hannah one more kiss to their foreheads. “Be right back.”
Out of Katy’s delivery room and down the hall, I make my way to the waiting room. The instant I walk through the swinging doors, I spot our crew of family and friends.
My parents and my sister and Tom and Gracie.
Kai and Melissa and Gran, who somehow managed the drive from Savanah in record time.
Thatch and Kline and Wes and Cap, who have become some of my closest friends since I started Music in Motion.
Anna and Kimmie and a few of our close friends from Calhoun—even Alma.
It feels like everyone we know and love is here, and I don’t think my heart could be any fuller than it is right now.
“Is the baby here?” Gracie exclaims when she spots me first, and everyone looks toward me with excited eyes.
“The baby is here,” I announce. “Hannah Houston, our daughter, is here.”
The room erupts in cheers and hoots and hollers and happy tears.
And in this moment, I know with certainty, because of Katy, I’m the luckiest man who’s ever walked the face of this earth.
Best of enemies, best of frenemies, best of friends. Whatever stage we’re in, Katy and I are in it together. Forever.
THE END