| Having It All Part 6C He looked down a moment. �I was beginning to think we would never come to an understanding.� Catherine shook her head. �You and he love one another too much to have let that happen.� Vincent looked at her again. �I�m glad that he delivered our son.� Catherine looked at the baby against her shoulder. �I think he believed that I would throw him out when he arrived.� Vincent sighed. �We both said things that we will never be able to take back.� Catherine looked at him again. �Yes, but you can go on from here and we can all be a family again.� The rest of the afternoon they received a steady stream of friends and family from above and below. But that night Father informed everyone that they were to go home and let Vincent and Catherine have their time alone with their son. The couple smiled appreciatively at him as he left the bedroom. Then they lay together on their bed with the baby sleeping between them talking about what the future would hold for the three of them. Shortly after they had placed the baby in the cradle that Vincent had slept in as a child Catherine fell into a peaceful sleep in his arms. But Vincent could not sleep he laid awake thinking of the road that his life had taken. He had grown up lonely and isolated. But that all changed the night he found Catherine in the park. He tenderly kissed her forehead as she moaned in her sleep. �Our life is just beginning.� He whispered just as he himself fell into a peaceful sleep. THE END! EPILOGUE |