Epilogue
(Ridge)
I didn't sleep much the first week.
Not because anything was wrong. Just because every time I closed my eyes I'd find myself awake again ten minutes later checking the bassinet.
Mira noticed on the third night.
"You've checked her four times," she said from the bed.
"I know."
"She's breathing."
"I know that too."
"Ridge."
"Go back to sleep," I said.
She was quiet for a moment. Then she said. "Come to bed."
I looked at Sarah one more time. Then I went and lay down beside Mira and she put her hand over mine and we both lay there in the dark listening to Sarah breathe from the bassinet.
Neither of us slept for a while.
That was fine.
I'd learned that some things were worth losing sleep over. Not because they were problems. Just because they mattered enough tha
