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  Chief Royden arrived now, lights flashing, and with him was Doc. As Doc turned to checking out Honey and Bert, Hank retrieved one baby from Jeremy and Chief Royden took the other. The fire chief grabbed quilts from the house and wrapped the babies snugly.

  With any worries about his parents soothed, Jeremy turned to stare at the flashing lights. I suddenly remembered Jeremy at four, a bundle of energy running from one lighted ride to another at the carnival, laughing the whole time. Now he was watching the lights flash red and blue, grinning like a circus clown. Like a kid.

  And the light dawned on me, too. “You love Amy and Anna already, don’t you?” I told him softly. “You love them as much as I do.”

  Honey had once confided to me that she didn’t think Jeremy understood the concept of love. But she was wrong. I knew that now.

  “Take care of my babies,” I told him. Beyond him shone a different kind of light, bright and white and beckoning me home.

  I could swear he looked straight at me then. But I couldn’t be sure because the white light was filling my vision.

  Then there was no time to apologize for all the bad things I’d thought about him, no time even for one last glance at my girls. Even though they were crying, it had no more power to hold me. The tether snapped, and next thing I knew, I was soaring up the tunnel toward the light, faster and faster, higher and higher.

  But just as I spotted Cam waving to me from the distant end, I heard from behind me Jeremy’s monotone voice, faint but distinct, say, “My babies.” I wouldn’t have to worry about Amy and Anna ever again.

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  Sabrina Jeffries is the NYT bestselling author of 36 novels and 9 works of short fiction (some written under the pseudonyms Deborah Martin and Deborah Nicholas). Whatever time not spent writing in a coffee-fueled haze of dreams and madness is spent traveling with her husband and adult autistic son or indulging in one of her passions--jigsaw puzzles, chocolate, and music. With over 7 million books in print in 18 different languages, the North Carolina author never regrets tossing aside a budding career in academics for the sheer joy of writing fun fiction, and hopes that one day a book of hers will end up saving the world. She always dreams big.