Destined For Them (Story 3)✔

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Hello, My Lovelies! Just wanted to write you all a short message before I give you chapter one! Are you guys as excited as I am?! As mentioned before, this story will be filled with drama and action. Feelings and loyalty will be tested and of course, our dear Caroline's sanity. I wanted to start off by saying, this book will be longer than the second and the time jump is four years. I hope that you all will follow it all the way through and bare with me as I am a stay at home mom with two darling boys to take care of and a third on the way (Which I have chosen to keep the gender a secret until birth!) Not that my personal life is anything interesting, Ha! 

But anyway, enjoy and I am glad that you all are here to join Caroline and Sol in their last story. I love you ladies (and gentlemen?). Thank you for giving me something to look forward to and supporting my writing. It's one of the things I cherish most and live for. 

Good reading! 

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~Caroline~

It was far to chilly to spend the afternoon in the park but when you had a four and a half year old daughter who got whatever she wanted-thanks to her father-she didn't take no for an answer. I, of course, was more strict on the little girl who's almond colored curls bounced around as she ran back around the slide to go down again, now. 

But I was surprised to see that there were quite a bit of people in the park on this chilly January day. Olivia and myself included, who sat beside me on a bench as we watched Lydia play and drank steaming Styrofoam cups of cappuccino. "Are you ever going to have that baby boy?" I asked her, as I glanced down at her huge, pregnant belly. At my question, one of her gloved hands  went to her belly and she sighed heavily. 

Her blonde hair had darkened during the winter and her smooth, beautiful face hadn't been tainted by the hormones that pregnancy brought with it. "Hopefully, he should be here any day, the doctor says. The real question is, when is that hubby of yours gonna put another one inside of you?" Liv asked, wiggling her eyebrows at me. I blushed and looked away, where I found Lydia going down the slide, hair blowing back in the cool air. Thankfully, ear mitts were a thing. 

"We are discussing it." I replied, which was a total lie. Discussing it was over with, we had decided to go ahead and do it. I had an appointment in a few days to get the birth control removed that had been put there when Lydia was born. It was still good for a year but what difference would a year make? Our daughter would already be in pre-school by the time a new baby came. I was so looking forward to the effort that would be put in when we started making this new baby.

"Good. I think that would be good for you guys, plus what the hell are you even doing with all of those rooms in that big house of yours?" She asked me next. True that. Nothing was the answer. Two of the unoccupied rooms were used for guest bedrooms and another for storage. I could just see myself, painting one blue or green for a baby boy. 

"Good question. We should probably get going though. I have to stop by the boutique and pick up the dresses for Sol's birthday party and my mother is probably about to lose her mind at my house, getting things ready. We'll see you there, right?" We both rose from the bench and I grabbed my Louis V purse. I thought that the party was going to be a little too formal for a birthday celebration but Sol was turning forty and that was a big thing...for him. I didn't much care, he was still every bit as youthful and sexy in my eyes. 

"Of course we will." She was referring to herself and her husband. When I turned my gaze back to the slide to call for Lydia, the little girl was no longer there. "Where did she go?" Liv asked me just as I started to look around frantically. She was no where; not on the monkey bars or the merry-go-round. Olivia sprang into action before I did. "Lydia!"