Amy asked, as they pulled up in front of Mountain Ridge Outdoor Adventures.Shelby had gone over to her brother’s house to spend some time with the twins before she and Amy had left for their book club meeting. It had only been four days since she’d seen them last, but the girls had already changed. Their little cheeks had gotten chubbier and Peyton was already starting to push up on her little knees like she was going to crawl.As she’d played with the girls while Amy finished getting ready, she had found herself amazed at how much she’d missed them. She’d even started tearing up while feeding Paige. The thought of leaving them at the end of the summer—her self-imposed deadline to have put her Humpty-Dumpty-self back together again and return to her real life—made her want to cry even harder.It was very possible that it could be because she’d bonded with the little angels at pretty much the most vulnerable time in her life. Over the past few years, her maternal clock had been ticking.
