Page 98 of Fierce-Michael
WHERE WE ARE AT
At the end of the month, Michael, Kelly and Ty walked into Cade’s house.
It was Saturday, Memorial Day weekend, and they were going to visit the baby. Ty wanted to play with his cousins and Michael figured it wouldn’t hurt to get out of the house.
He’d been with Kelly every weekend this month except one. Last weekend he had Ty, and Kelly had plans with friends to go to a concert. She’d had the tickets prior and he told her to have a good time.
Owen had come over and hung out with them that night and Ty loved the male bonding.
Now Ty felt he was going to be entertained every weekend and it was the last thing Michael wanted. Or needed, as it was tiring on top of it.
“Congratulations, Alex,” Kelly said, leaning in to hug Alex. She’d come to the door when he rang the bell.
“Thank you,” Alex said. “It’s good to see you. And see you together for the first time now that I know what is going on.”
“Sorry we didn’t tell you,” Kelly said. “We were just taking it slow.”
“Ty!” Cameron yelled and came charging down the hall.
His son took off for the toy room with Regan following along.
“Bye, Dad,” Ty said as he dashed down the hall. His son had no desire to see the baby and he hadn’t expected anything different.
“There is nothing wrong with going slow regardless of what my mother-in-law says,” Alex said.
Cade came walking down the hall carrying Jordan. “Good timing. She just woke up. She might want to eat. I thought I’d hold off and see what Alex planned on doing.”
“If you can go get a bottle and warm it up, that’d be great,” Alex said. “Maybe Kelly wants to feed her?”
“I’d love to,” she said, rubbing her hands together. “But I know you’re breastfeeding so maybe you don’t want to waste a bottle.”
“I’m weaning her. She does it at night only now,” Alex said. “The rest is bottles. I’m going back to work in a few weeks, at least part time. Jolene is going to watch Jordan between Cade and me until she is four months old. Then she’ll start at the daycare.”
Cade handed his daughter off to Kelly and Michael watched his girlfriend cradle Jordan as if she had been doing it her whole life.
“I’m surprised Jolene doesn’t want her full time,” he said.
“She’d do it if I asked, but I won’t. There are a lot of grandkids and she fills the gap for them all. I’m sure there will be times she comes here with one or more. I’ll bring Jordan into the office for a few hours if I have to. Cade will do the same.”
“We love babies in the office,” Kelly said, looking down at the baby with a soft smile on her face. “He won’t have much to do, as we’ll just pass her around.”
“He knows that too,” Alex said, grinning. “It all works out. Please, come in. I shouldn’t be standing here gabbing, but it’s nice to see you.”
“No work talk,” Cade said, coming in and giving Kelly the bottle.
They’d walked to the back of the house and were sitting in the family room. Kelly went over to the rocking chair and put the bottle in Jordan’s mouth. “She’s a greedy one.”
“She likes to eat,” Alex said. “The good part is, she goes right back to sleep most times. Just like her father. Stuff her full of food and she is out if she is in that chair. Not that Cade can be in the rocking chair.”
“Stop,” Cade said. “That doesn’t make me sick like it did when I was a baby. I’m not even sure it did back then and my mother was probably yanking my chain.”
“We know she loves to do that,” Alex said. “Thank you for the outfits too, Kelly. They are adorable.”
“It was so much fun shopping for baby clothes.”
“If you say so,” Michael said. “My mother did a lot of that for me.”
“Your mother bought Ty’s clothing?” Kelly asked.