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sorry I haven’t talked to you in forever. So much has happened since I last emailed you! We need to get together and catch up. When is your wedding? Are you at home for the summer?
    Take care!
    Lily
    Feeling better, I set the phone on the nightstand and closed my eyes. Marcus’s scent filled my nostrils, and as I drifted to sleep, his face filled my dreams.

Chapter Four
    After I fed Natalie a breakfast of baby rice cereal, then nursed her, I put her on a large blanket on the floor for tummy time. I’d folded the blanket several times to make it thick and soft since I was placing it on the hardwood floor, and she cooed and giggled as she watched Greta walk around the blanket. Greta knew to stay off the blanket and I smiled as I watched my little family.
    But when I remembered Marcy’s comment on the day I’d arrived in Vegas, about the family’s concern with Greta being around Natalie, I frowned. Greta would never hurt my baby—if anything she was very protective of Natalie and who was around her. And I resented the implication that I was a bad mother for letting my sweet German-Shepard be around my baby girl.
    I pushed the thoughts away. They could think whatever they wanted—when it came to my family, I would do whatever I thought best.  
    My phone chimed, indicating an email had arrived. I didn’t get many emails and hoped it was from Alyssa. I tapped the email app on the phone and saw a new email from my friend.
    Lily -  
    What a wonderful surprise to hear from you! I’ve been thinking about you these last few days. My wedding is August 14th and we’ve decided to do something kind of wild. A shipboard wedding! I’ve always wanted to visit Alaska, so we decided to take a cruise there and have whatever family and friends come that can, and then get married on the ship! I don’t know if you’d be able to come, especially with such late notice, but I would love, love, love it if you could!
    Let me know as soon as you can as we have to let the cruise people know who’s coming.
    Take care!
    Alyssa
    She’d put the cruise ship information in the email, as well as the specific dates she was going.
    “Wow,” I said to Natalie and Greta. “Wouldn’t that be fun?” I considered the idea of going on a cruise as I absently watched Natalie and Greta. I’d never done anything like a cruise before—the idea had never even crossed my mind—but it sounded like a lot of fun.  
    The more I thought about it, the more I wanted to go. I hadn’t seen Alyssa in a long time and it would be a wonderful opportunity for us to catch up. Not only that, but it would be good for me to get away for a while. I’d been so busy learning how to be a mother, as well as focusing on myself after the trauma I’d been through, I felt like going on a trip like this would be a great way to step outside of my normal life—see new places, meet new people.
    I grabbed my laptop and pulled up the website for the cruise company. After a little research I found it was kind of pricey, even if I got an interior room, but oh, how I wanted to go. With the money from the sale of Dad’s house, plus the large amount remaining from his life insurance policy, not to mention the little bit of money I was making by designing and maintaining the website for Billi’s, as well as some other small businesses in town, I could afford this splurge.
    “I’m going to do it,” I said out loud, a wide grin on my face.
    I pulled up the email program on my laptop and replied to Alyssa’s email. As I started writing, it occurred to me that she didn’t know I had a baby. The last time I’d seen her was before Trevor had locked me up, and when I’d seen her last I hadn’t known yet that I was pregnant. And once I’d gone into hiding, I hadn’t told her because I hadn’t wanted to worry her.
    My smile grew as I wrote the email.
    Alyssa,
    I’m so excited for you! That sounds like a blast! And guess what??? I’m going to come!! I’m going to book the cruise