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They walked into Hunter's office. He looked up from his desk. "John, Hailey. Good to see you."

"Thanks Hunter." John replied. "I wanted to talk to you about changing the beneficiary on my benefits to Hailey."

"Sure we can do that. Normally you pick a family member to be it."

"I know and who's a better family member than my wife."

Hunter looked at them. "You're married? When did that happen?"

"A few days ago in Vegas."

"Well congratulations." He smiled hugging Hailey. "So, you want all your benefits changed right?"

"Yes. I filed papers today to adopt Brayden and I've had my will redone and changed my life insurance. I don't want Hailey to have to go through what she just went through if something happens to me. I know nothing will happen but I want to be prepared."

"I understand that. Let's make those changes." John nodded and Hunter soon had the papers done. "You're all set."

"Great." John smiled. "I will see you tomorrow morning for my shift."

"You don't want a few days off?"

"I just had some when we went to Vegas. I'll be here tomorrow."

Hunter nodded. "Alright. See you tomorrow and congratulations."

John nodded and took Hailey's hand as they walked out of the office. He smiled at the guys who were there and walked out with Hailey and Brayden.

"So, everything is taken care of." John said to Hailey as they drove home. "Hailey, nothing is going to happen to me. This just safe guards you against having issues like you just went through."

"I know. I just….I don't want to lose you."

He took her hand and brought it to his lips and kissed it. "I can't promise I won't be hurt or worse on the job but I promise to do whatever I have to do to stay safe and always come home to you and our daughter."

Hailey smiled. "I love the way that sounds."

"I do too." He smiled as they pulled up to the house. "So, I guess I need to move my stuff into the house."

"Yes you do." She replied as they got out of the car. She got Brayden out from the back. "What did you want to move in? I mean I have furniture. I know it's furniture Randy and I got. Most everything in the house he and I got together. Is it going to be weird for you? If it is, I guess we can move and get different stuff."

"I love this house. We can give Mike and Christina my old stuff since theirs is pretty ratty and we can keep the stuff that's here. Except the bed." He said as he opened the door to the house and they walked in. "It would just be weird to be with you in the bed that you and Randy were together."

"I agree. It would be good to get a new bed."

"Good. So why don't you put Brayden down and we can figure out what type of bed we want?" She nodded and headed upstairs to put Brayden down.

John looked around the house and smiled. He couldn't believe this was really happening. He walked over to the fireplace and picked up a photo of Randy in his firemen uniform. "I promised you I would take care of them. I hope you understand that I fell in love with her. I've always loved her."

"We should probably change the pictures." She said when she walked down the stairs and saw him looking at a photo of Randy.

"Yeah. We need our wedding picture up here." He said turning to face her. "You don't have to take Randy's photos away."

"You and I are married now. We need photos of us and Brayden. We should put these up for her." She felt John take her hand.

"Hailey, I would never ask you to erase Randy from your life. You can't do that. He's Brayden's birth father and he was your husband."

"I know you aren't asking that. But we're starting our life together. I don't want Randy to be a weird subject for us. My life with him is over and I need to put up the photos and stuff. So we can replace them with stuff from our life together."

"How about one picture of Randy and then we put the rest of them away?"

"Okay." She smiled and took the photos down. It was hard to put that part of her life away but it was time. She was starting new with John. And Randy was in the past. She placed the photos in a box and headed upstairs to the attic to put them there. She came back downstairs and found John on the computer. "What are you looking at?"

"Beds. I figured there was no time like the present."

"Sounds good." She said sitting down beside him. "So, any ideas?"

"Well did you want to get a whole knew bedroom suit or just a new mattress?"

"Would keeping the same bedroom suit bother you?"

"No. I think a new mattress and new bedding would be enough."

"Okay sounds good." She smiled. "It probably wont be delivered today but tomorrow. And we have to sleep somewhere. So I was thinking the guest room beside Brayden's room."

"Or we could stay down here." John said as he kissed her. She kissed him back and he moved them over to the sofa. They both were soon undressed and making love.

"You know we keep this up and we will have another baby before long." She said as they laid afterwards.

"That wouldn't be so bad." He smiled and kissed her. "But if you don't want another one right now, we can start using protection."

She moved to look at him. "Do you want a baby? A biologically child of your own. I mean I know you want to adopt Brayden. But it isn't the same as having your own child. And I understand that."

"Hailey, I love Brayden as my own. That's why I'm adopting her." He looked at her. "I love you both. But I do want us to have more children. Not because I want a biological child. I would be fine if we never had another child. If Brayden was it, I would be happy with that. I want another child so we can add to our family."

"I wouldn't mind that at all."

"Great. Then when the time is right we will have more children." She smiled and kissed him. She did want more children and she wanted them with John.

Brayden cried in the next room. John kissed Hailey and got up slipping on his boxers. "I'll go."

Hailey nodded as he got up out of the bed and headed to the nursery. During the night, they had moved upstairs to the guest room beside the nursery.

"Hey, little girl." John said when he walked in. "What's got you up?" He picked her up and sat down in the rocker and got the bottle. "I guess you're hungry." He smiled as she took it. "You know today was an important day. I asked your mom to make me your dad. And she agreed so we filed everything and soon you will legally be my little girl. I already think of you as it but this makes it official. Are you excited?" He asked as he fed her and she was silent. "I'll take that as a yes." He laughed.

Hailey smiled as she stood at the door to the nursery. "You're one of my girls now. And I promise to always take care of you and your mommy." He finished the feeding and burped her. He laid her back down and started the mobile. He smiled and turned to see Hailey standing there. "I told you I had her."

"I know. I just overheard you on the baby monitor." She smiled as he walked up to her. "You are the sweetest guy."

"Well, you and Brayden are the most important people to me." He took her hand and they headed back to the guest room. "I love you Hailey."

"I love you too and I'm so glad we are together."

"Let's go to bed." He leaned in and kissed her and they moved over to the bed and they were soon making love. Both couldn't be happier with the way things were. Finally it seemed life was indeed looking up.

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