by B. B. Hamel
Lucas doesn’t leave my side, not for a single hour. He keeps the babies with him as long as he can, and then they go home with Alice. For some reason, nobody complains when Lucas sleep in the chair next to my bed. He seems totally immune to the concept of visiting hours.
I’m released three days later, and it feels so good to get out of that hospital. But instead of heading home, we take a detour over toward the preserve.
“I have something I want to show you,” he says to me.
“Really?” I ask him. “I’m sorry. I’m really tired.”
“It’ll take a second. I promise.”
I frown at him but don’t argue. We pull into the preserve’s parking lot and then we head up toward the meadow.
The fire was pretty bad. It burned down a few acres. Blackened trees ring what’s left of the meadow, everything a blackened mess.
I frown at the devastation. I don’t know what to say. “Why would you bring me here?” I ask him.
“I know, it looks bad,” he agrees.
“Do we know what started the fire?”
“No,” he says. “Could have been a million things.” He shrugs and takes my hand. “Come on. It’s just ahead.”
We walk through the burnt and broken forest until the trees give way to the meadow.
“Here,” Lucas says. “Look.”
At first, I don’t see it. All I see is devastation, burnt and broken devastation. It hurts my heart just looking at what’s left of what was once the most beautiful place I’d ever seen.
But then I start to notice them. He grins at me as he points. Little green shoots, just tiny little tendrils, are beginning to poke up from underneath the black ash.
“What are they?” I ask him.
“Laura says it’s just what happens. The forest burns down and then it regrows.” He takes my hand and holds it tightly. “She says that in a year or two, this place will all be new growth.”
“Really?” I ask him, smiling slightly.
“Really. Things burn and then they grow again. Nothing disappears forever. It’s going to be okay, Mia.” He pulls me against him.
I kiss him deeply, feeling so grateful I can barely speak. We kiss like that for a while, overtop of the burnt and broken land, with the new life just beginning to grow up through it again.
Slowly I break it off. “Thanks for bringing me out here,” I say. “I feel better already.”
“Good. Just promise me you won’t risk your life like that again. Aaron and Noah need you.” He pauses and frowns. “And I need you too.”
“I need you all too.” I touch his handsome face. “I promise.”
“Good.” He kisses me again. “Come on. Let’s go see the babies.”
“Okay.” I smile as he leads the way back down the forest and toward the parking lot.
This is my life, and I don’t want to leave it. I need my babies, my husband, my world. Maybe things burn down, but new growth always comes. One day, the meadow will be back, more beautiful than ever. I’ll show Aaron and Noah the place their mom nearly died for no reason, and we’ll laugh about all of this in the beautiful sunlight.
And I know I’ll always be safe. Because Lucas will be there to protect me.
I smile again and can’t wait to get home.
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