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She smiles up at me, and then Hayley starts to jump in my arms She’s excited, and reaches over ets so excited to see Paul

Kit starts srins, and air escapes her in one big relaxed breath I’m not sure what that’s about

"You met Hayley, I see," Paul says to Kit She nods as Paul takes her frohter, "now you won’t be the only girl in the house" He dances around in a circle with her I’n when your hands are full of baby I can’t see what he says when he dances around in a circle, but whatever it is er at Paul and smiles "She’s yours?" she asks

Paul looks frohter to score with chicks again, are you?" Paul asks, punching rocery store He gets too much attention frorins "What the fk happened here?" he asks

Kit scowls at hi toward Hayley She’s s deep breaths, which she wasn’t doing when I first walked into the house

"Who cleaned?" Paul asked He wipes a spot on Hayley’s cheek with his thuave you chocolate?" He scowls at rin

Kit cleaned up I pull her into my side, and she wraps an arm around my waist, lays one hand on ?

Paul looks froer down his throat like he’s going to hurl and walks aith Hayley toward his bedroo to be late for work if you don’t hurry" He looks down at Hayley "Tell Uncle Logan he’s going to be late" He shows her the sign for late and she does it She’s adorable when she signs They disappear into his bedroom and I look down at Kit I bend my head and touch my lips to hers I don’t want to pull back, but I do have to hurry "I have to go out," I say

Her brows raise, and she looks wary "Out?" she says

I nod "I have to work tonight Do you want to go with me?"

She looks down at her wet shirt, and brushes a lock of hair from her forehead "I haven’t even had a shower today"

"How quickly can you get ready?" I ask, looking at my watch I have thirty minutes before I have to be there

Emily

Warm water sluices over an is probably dancing fro for me so he won’t be late for work Apparently, he’s a bouncer at sohts And he wants o with him

I hear the door to the bathrooht come into the bathroom with me, and that’s only if he’s sick

I open the bath curtain an inch and look out Logan is standing there, looking ata pair of jeans, his boots, and a blue t shirt that says "Bounce(r)" on the front of it It strains across his broad shoulders His eyes are a startling shade of blue against the azure shirt, and he looks at h the curtain My hair is full of suds, and soap is burning one of ?" I ask

He shakes his head and s else, but he stands there with one shoulder against the ith his arms crossed "I have a question," he finally says

I lean back and wash the soap froh, bloater froht Hayley wasto look at my nad body He’s totally respectful, just like always

It did bother ht be his They have the same deep blue eyes, and their hair color is similar And he was so familiar with her But then she’s called Paul Daddy, and everything was suddenly all right I know he can’t read my lips unless I stick my head out of the shower "What makes you say that?" I ask

He snorts "I read people every day, all day, and I have to tell how they feel by the way they hold themselves, rather than the inflections in their voices And so that Hayley was mine"

He looks closely atmy reactions

"Either you don’t like kids, or you didn’t like the idea ofa kid" He shuffles his feet "I just wanted to tell you that Icare of a child If I wasn’t, Paul wouldn’t leave her with h, and then he turns to walk out of the door I call his narab for the towel, letting it fall open in front of me, but I don’t have tirab his ar as he looks atcare of her," I say "It wasn’t that at all"

"Then as it?" he asks

It’s so hard to explain, but if I don’t tell hi it’s because I think he can’t do the kid justice with his disability, and that couldn’t be farther froht she was yours," I say with er

"What?" he asks

"I thought she was yours," I repeat This tih that’s the last thing I want hihter"