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I give hirin "That’s aweso over what she wanted to do and it was driving Ryker nuts He finally told her totoback atI’ve learned about him over the past feeeks is how much he loves his kids "Yeah, I’ to live with ot their room finished up and I checked out the school that they’ll be enrolled in"

"We’ll have to hook Ben and the girls up for regular playdates," I tell hiives a dramatic pause "Listen…I also wanted to ask you about Kate"

And as always happens when I hear her name, a stab of pain hitswith a pit of emptiness "What about?"

"Have you talked to her lately?"

I shake my head "Guess I’m not really sure what I would say to her"

"Well, on’t hash out again all the reasons why I think you’re a ht abouther a job?"

I hesitate for only a , "I think that would be fantastic"

And I trulyKate, I also feel terrible over the fact that she had depended solely on the job I had given her to help her start back to school in the fall That has been weighing heavily on me since she left

"You wouldn’t think that eird?" he asks carefully "It’s inevitable that you will see her at some point between soether to play"

"Yeah, it would be weird," Ihurt--that was for sure "But I’ive her a call and ask her for ive hi look "Nice try, buddy But if you want to talk to Kate, you’ll need to call her yourself Trust me, I’ht be wrong about that," Ryker says as he picks up his beer He waves it at me and says, "Just because you hurt her doesn’t ed for you"

"Maybe not," I tell hied either"

Ryker narrows his gaze at h the truth ofo