Chapter 58
They were among the last to leave the party. Paisley had happily caught up with other Coopers Bend friends she hadn't seen in years, while Ty stuck close to Bethany. He was doting and ecstatic. After the added guilt she knew he'd carried about the baby she'd lost after Garrett's death, it was lovely to see. It was also intriguing.
In high school, neither of them had been thinking about children, and in their time together as adults, it certainly hadn't come up. Paisley had long ago given up on the idea of having kids. She liked her life, liked the one she was building with Ty. Unlike Emerson, her biological clock wasn't sounding a gong. But watching his solicitous attention to the mama to be, it was hard not to wonder whether he'd ever wanted to be a father and what it would be like to be the focus of that kind of attention.