Chapter 4552
River added, “Even if you don’t choose our wives, at least live long enough to see us get married and become dads.”
The old lady laughed. “That was my plan. I really thought I still had the energy to arrange marriages for the three of you. But as I get older, my strength just isn’t what it used to be. All those old-age issues are catching up with me. Aging is hard to deny. If I could live as long as your Grandpa Jimenez, I’d be content.”
Old Mr. Jimenez had lived to a hundred.
If she could reach that age, she’d definitely get to see her three youngest grandsons settle down and have families of their own.
But she wasn’t sure she’d make it that far.
These days, she often felt like she was standing with one foot in the grave.