Brady suddenly got up and wandered back to the woods. Five minutes later he was back with her in his human form.
“I think your son recognized you. He was going crazy inside me when you touched my belly.”
“Yeah, he probably sensed it was papa bear.”
Jenna laughed. Papa bear. She liked it. She was going to call Brady that once the baby arrived.
“So you’re not scared of bears now, right?” he asked.
“Not of you.”
“And you don’t hate bears?”
She shook her head. “My brother’s going to be another story.”
“We’ll get him to trust a bear again. I can’t have my brother-in-law hating me or my son.”
“Brother-in-law?”
“That’s what I forgot. I knew there was something I had for you.”
He stopped walking and in one fluid movement and in a way only debonair Brady Walsh could, he was down on one knee and had red velvet box opened in front of her. Inside sat a ring.
The diamond was huge. In fact, its brightness almost blinded her.
“Jenna Paxton will you do me the honor of becoming Mrs. Brady Walsh?”
“I most definitely accept.”
“So are we going to do this before or after the baby arrives?” he asked.
“I’d like to do it before but I also want to fit into a wedding dress.”
“How about we run away to Vegas this weekend? Then after Brady Jr’s born, why don’t we have a big white wedding at The Lodge?”
“Sounds perfect, but wait a minute. Brady Jr?”
“What’s wrong with the name Brady?”
“Nothing, but it’s your name. I don’t want to have to call Brady Junior, so that you both don’t come running at the same time when I need one of you.”
“Um, you have a point. Well, we’ll think of something. Oh, and I’ll send the moving guys over to your place tomorrow to collect all your stuff. I think we need to get Lucy over to my … our house to design the best nursery in the world.”
She stopped walking, turned and smiled at him.
“What?” he asked.
She shook her head. “You are going to be the most awesome husband and father. “
He kissed her. “That’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever said.”
Epilogue
Cole was happy he’d played his part in getting Jenna and Brady back together. Word was they married in Vegas last weekend. Yeah, he’d always known what buttons to push with Brady Walsh. He ran, letting the wind travel though his thick bear coat. Perfect day for running. It had rained for the last two days, but today was sunny and cool.
He looked up ahead. At first he thought it was a fallen log but as he got closer he realized it was a woman. He ran faster thinking he’d have to shift back into human form and help her. The closer he came, the more he knew it was too late. By the blood on the twigs and rocks close by, and the pallor of her skin, Cole knew she was dead.
Police. He had to call the police. He ran back to where he left his clothes when he’d shifted. His cellphone was in his pants. He relaxed his muscles and soon paws became hands and feet again. He pulled on his pants and then stabbed 911 onto the screen.
“What is your emergency?”
“I was jogging and I just found a woman’s body. She’s dead.”
“And what is your location sir?”
“I’m at the north end of the woods on the road that leads into the west of Kalispell.”
“Please stay at your location and we’ll have a police officer with you shortly.”
He ended the call and paced. He was a doctor and had seen dead people lots of times, but finding one like this, one that had clearly met with a violent end was different.
He put his sweatshirt back on and paced some more.
Who would do such a horrible thing to another human being?
The End
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