“You’re going to be a grandmother. I’m having a baby.”
“Oh, oh!” Marie’s eyes grew wide and she slapped her hand over her heart. “You’re pregnant?”
Lani nodded. “Four months. Get yourself ready. You’ll soon have your hands full with Baby Kent.”
“Oh, oh.” Marie was clutching her chest now.
Startled by her mother’s gasps, Lani’s eyes widened and she grabbed Marie's arm. “Mom, are you all right?”
“Am I?” Marie said. “You’ve just made me the happiest woman in the world.”
Relief washing through her, Lani could only smile. Her mother couldn’t know it, but someone else had already seized that title. Because, Lani knew, no woman in the world could be happier than she.
But she wouldn’t tell her mother that. Why burst her bubble?
As happy as she was, it was a title Lani was more than willing to share.