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Eva-Maria took the seat next to me "Are you okay?"

"What happened to the baby?" I pushed out, feeling out of breath

She lifted her shoulders "I don’t know--but she ainst the wall, trying to get under control

She said, "I’m sorry to be the one to tell you, but at least you don’t have to deal with Reine?" She laughed

My eyes flew open "Never say her na, turn around and walk the fuck away Leave her alone"

Red rose in her cheeks "I didn’t realize you cared so much" She s the sisters is you aren’t very accohosted over my crotch

A muscle twitched neara et out of ym"

She whitened "Dax I’m sorry--"

"Get out"

She licked her lips, sent y different scenarios and outcoo around in lehinted at her being pregnant

Obviously, the baby never cay clothes and delivered in May, which would nant in September

God

I rubbed iven it up for adoption? Abortion?

And Hartford--he wouldn’t have dated a pregnant Remi

Wait Would he? Did he love her that much?

Why not?

You’d do it too if the baby wasn’t yours You love Reht fro h my hair Goosebumps rose over my skin

That was not true

Yet how did I explain ive a fuck if she was back with hiht there in the foyer of Front Street Gy deep for the bones I never let anyone see, even Declan

I’d been a player for four years--further if you went back to high school For years, I’d been a irl a dance of one step forward and two steps back I pushed real relationships away and had never looked back Yet when Re flinched--because the na&iuut had seen so that weekend, our connection a live wire so hot that I knew if I took hold of it, I’d be fried