"What do you mean?"
"I thought we could fly up to Chicago, take Kayden and Amber with us and meet up with Simone and Craig. Kayden gets married in three weeks, and we've not spent a lot of time with him. We could do a nightclub there, have some fun and come back tomorrow. Don't worry I've already arranged with your mom to watch Liam and Niven is coming back first thing tomorrow. I messaged Craig and Kayden, and they're both up for it."
Valerie's mouth twisted and I knew instinctively she didn't want to leave Liam. But I was determined this time, because sometimes I looked at her, and thought about all the responsibility she carried, and wondered if she ever thought about the things she'd missed in her late teens. She'd never gone to college or had fun with large groups of carefree people, or had the chance to do stupid stuff that had been my right of passage at St. Cloud.