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"I have no idea why you tried so hard to save rateful you did"

S at me, she just said, "It’s because you’re worth it"

The cold October ground was h the earth as I trudged across the cemetery, hand-in-hand with City I’d never liked these places, but I’d wanted to pay er to show rass around it weeded whenever I come, which is about twice a year, once on her birthday, once on herdeath date"

I nodded and squeezed ers around hers "Thank you"

"Wellshe was my niece too"

"Our niece," I revised with a fond s around my lips as I remembered those few times I’d taken Bentley out to meet her in the woods

When we stopped in front of a s the child who’d helped bring City into my life "I always pictured her whenever I dreamed of what a baby between us would look like, since she had both of our blood in her"

"Yeah" City rested her head on lanced down at our interlaced fingers and murmured, "Maybe one day, solanced up at listened in her eyes "Maybe I hope so"

We hadn’t discussed particulars, like our future, but it seeether One day, I was sure we’d et our happily ever after

But for noas content e had, living in our two-bedroo at Forbidden while we filled the rest of our days with each other And she seemed just as pleased

It’d been a feeeks since Rock had attacked me at the club and been arrested, and one week since Reese’sStatesburg Life was good, so of course I worried so bad had to happen next

But City did a dait, hoere thriving So eachthat I ith her in my arms, I worried a little less and lived a little o to the trouble tree," I said as an idea hit lanced up, surprise in her eyes "God, I haven’t been there since"