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Heather
said.
    “ Jake has a big mess today.
The sites were closed yesterday and the Castle’s falling down and…
Oh it doesn’t matter.”
    Blane kissed Mack’s cheek and held his arm
out for Heather. She tucked herself into him.
    “ How’s Delphie?” Heather
asked.
    “ She still thinks she’s
dead,” Blane said. “If we weren’t so freaked out for her, it would
be pretty funny. She comes home tomorrow.”
    “ Are you working at the
Castle?”
    Blane nodded. Shifting away, he gave Mack
back to her.
    “ I should keep moving.
Let’s have dinner tonight,” he said. “Just us. I’ll make something
yummy.”
    “ It’s a date,” Heather
said.
    “ You’re sure you’re all
right? You seem a little blue.”
    “ There was a note from
Enrique when I got back,” Heather said.
    “ Oh? What did it say?”
Blane asked.
    He pointed up the stairs to the shower. She
followed him up.
    “ I didn’t open it,” she
said.
    “ Go ahead.”
    While he got ready to shower, she and Mack
went back downstairs to get Enrique’s note. He was in the shower
when she returned.
    “ He says that he’s been
sober for four days. He moved out of his house and Calvin is moving
out at the end of the month. He starts with a therapist
tomorrow.”
    “ Anything else?” Blane
asked.
    “ He loves you,” she
said.
    “ Why would a note from
Enrique make you blue?”
    “ Oh,” Heather said. “What
am I going to do when you and Enrique get back
together?”
    “ You’re my wife,” Blane
said. “He’s my past. I don’t get the conflict.”
    “ You wouldn’t,” Heather
said. She was halfway down the stairs when he caught up with
her.
    “ Hey! Don’t do that,” he
said. “Please. We don’t do this. We’re honest, say what’s on our
minds. We don’t play these games.”
    She nodded. Naked and dripping water, he
took her hand and led her back to the bathroom. He pointed to the
toilet and she sat down. She settled Mack in her arms while he
finished showering. She gave him a towel when he stepped out of the
shower.
    “ What’s going on?” Blane
asked.
    “ I’m feeling sorry for
myself,” Heather said.
    “ The doctor said we should
watch for post-partum depression because you’ve been depressed
before. Is this the same?”
    “ I just…”
    Blane wrapped the towel around his trim
waist. Heather fussed with Mack to keep from having to admit her
sadness.
    “ Delphie told me today that
you and I are soul mates,” Blane said.
    Heather’s head jerked up.
    “ It sounds crazy,” he said.
“I guess, some types of soul mates aren’t lovers or romantically
involved or whatever we’re doing. She said your soul and my soul
are linked. We’re supposed to be together, to make a family
together. That’s why it took one conversation on a plane and we’ve
been happy ever since. You’re happy, right?”
    “ Very happy,” Heather said.
“That’s the problem. I’m terrified it will go away. You’ll get
together with Enrique and I’ll…”
    “ I’m not going anywhere. Do
you want to go anywhere?”
    Heather shook her head.
    “ I’ve never been this
happy,” Blane said. “I’ve been at that hospital all weekend. Before
you and Mack came along, I was completely alone. Even with Sam and
Val and Jake and everyone else, you make my family. If I get involved with someone
else, he’ll just have to deal with that. You and I are soul mates.
Does that feel true?”
    “ Delphie told me we were
meant to be together on the plane,” Heather said. “She just seemed
so odd that I…”
    “ She’s much odder now that
she’s convinced that she’s dead. She won’t speak directly to anyone
but Sam and Jake. She makes commentary to the rest of us. ‘Oh Jake,
you know Blane and Heather are soul mates.’ It’s pretty
odd.”
    Heather nodded.
    “ Are you
depressed?”
    “ I don’t think so,” Heather
said. “I’m tired.”
    “ It’s a lot – a newborn and
all this drama. Do we have Molly’s kids again