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"Exactly"

"Oh"

Jaathered her in his ar without you"

Su the election would be an e at my side I want you to share that moment with me I love you, Summer, and I love our babies, too"

"Oh, James, I’ve been so unhappy I didn’t knohat to do"

"Don’t ever leave --until I saw you standing at the end of that pier"

Suhtened her arms around him

Walter tapped on the door "Can I corowled

"So have you two settled your differences?"

"We’re working on it," Summer called out

"Then I’ll leave you to your reunion"

"Good night, Dad," James said in as an obvious hint for his father to leave

"’Night, kids Kiss andto do a lot more than kiss," James whispered in her ear

"Promises, proood on these"

Thirteen

"This is my wife, Suh she was only six nant, she looked closer to nine

"I’m so pleased to ain?" she whispered to Jaue of Women Voters"

"Oh I don’t kno you remember all these names I’m impressed"

"I’m more impressed that you can remember all your lines in Beauty and the Beast," he said "But here’sna else," Jah is soe, don’t you think?" Summer raised her eyebrows

"Roar and baa," he said under his breath "Think of a lion and a lah"

Suht smile "No wonder I married you You’re brilliant"

"I bet you won’t have a proble Eood friend of Elizabeth Manning’s," Jarape It was a test of his restraint not to kiss her afterward One would assume his desire for her would fade after all these , quite the opposite had occurred She was never more beautiful to hi?" Summer repeated "I didn’t think she’d be the political type"

"She isn’t," Jaathered on the patio of an influential member of the state senate "But the two of theh school"

"I see"

"Do you need to sit for a while?"

"Jalanced down at her abdomen "How are Mutt and Jeff?"

She circled her belly with both hands "I swear these two are going to be world-class soccer players"

Ja for an hors d’oeuvre froave it to Summer

"Janized the voice--William Carr, the president of the Bar Association He quicklythe wrong thing or inadvertently e him She had a natural way about her that instantly put people at ease She was charenuine These political functions weren’t her idea of a good tier to do whatever she could to aid his can and had proved to be the asset he knew she would be

"I’ed handshakes

The obvious topic of conversation was Sunancy, which they discussed but only briefly She ed to deftly turn the conversation away fro over the early days when his as pregnant with their oldest child

After ten minutes or so, Summer excused herself

"She’s an excellent conversationalist," William Carr commented as she walked away

James did his best to hide a s and then act as if Su the discussion

"It seee to think of you as married," the attorney said next

"When I’"

Carr shifted his weight froiven you advice before you were appointed to the court, it would’ve been to marry"

"Really?" This ca s from you Just between you,an excellent job"