But then again, I’d never had this kind of distraction. It was ninety minutes door to door from the seaplane terminal in Naniamo to the Anthony farm in Duncan, and Carter had been chattering nonstop, his seatbelt the only thing keeping him from bouncing all over the backseat. “Are we there yet?” he asked his shining eyes on mine in the rearview mirror.“Almost, Champ.” I winked at him and he beamed his radiant smile forward.“Carter,” Bridget scolded. “That’s about the tenth time you asked that. Stop being a pest.”“He’s ok.” I glanced at her pretty profile, soaking her up as she sat in the passenger seat beside me. I reached for and squeezed her hand. Something really warm bubbled up inside my chest. This felt right. The three of us. Almost like a real family.I took the exit off the main coastal highway and turned onto a two lane farm road.“I see a deer, Mommy!” Carter exclaimed excitedly. “Look on the front lawn of that house.” He tapped on his window and she shifted to look out her side of the car.“I saw it.”
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