Good Husband Material. Kara Lennox

I don’t approve of making judgments like that. But as I understand it, Mary is very smart and very pretty.”

      “And you heard that from her mother, right? Yeah, she’d be unbiased.”

      “Look, I don’t care if this girl looks like Jabba the Hutt. She’s making a huge sacrifice, moving away from her school and her friends. I want you to be nice to her.”

      “Dad, give us some credit. If she looks like Jabba the Hut, we won’t say anything. We’ll just make her walk ten paces behind us if we go anywhere.”

      “Funny, ha ha.”

      “Chill, Dad,” said Doug, who was usually the peacemaker. “We’ll be cool. It’s just one day.”

      It wasn’t just for a day. With this child about to be born, their families would be forever intertwined. That thought both excited and scared him. Yeah, he was totally disrupting Natalie’s and Mary’s lives. But his was going to be dramatically altered as well. It was a damn good thing he’d already made partner, because he anticipated that when the baby came, he wasn’t going to be spending as much time at the office. Two a.m. feedings and diaper rash would occupy his mind and his time, making him less than one-hundred-percent efficient at his job. He remembered what it was like when Sean and Doug were babies.