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Ari snapped up her head, and I saw the tears welling up in her eyes

"How do you feel about all of this, Jeff? I saw you s to work out, you need to be honest with ht now

Holy shit What a when I’d felt the babyto hurt Ari that way I only wanted kids with her There was no one else for me

"Ari, it’s hard not to s around in anyone’s stoh She seemed shocked when I told her I’d asked you to marry me last Saturday She couldn’t believe that I asked even after I’d found out about the baby, but it wasn’t just that When I said that Gunner got ht it was us getting married"

Ari quickly sat up She pulled the covers over her as she tucked her legs up to her chest

"Don’t get mad"

"Oh shit, Ari What did you do?"

"Well, I had a feeling that her calling you right before the wedding was all too coincidental I just had a feeling So, A, and Crysti happened to be working She also seeottenabout a wedding When she heard your nauess is that she called Rebecca to fill her in hat she’d found out I think Rebecca ca married"

Wow When Ari puts her daoes one hundred percent at it

"Well, what are you thinking?"

"It’s possible If she was lying though, ould she offer to let o to her next doctor’s appointhost

"She did? Did she offer or did say that you wanted to go?"

"Does it matter Ari?"

"Yes, Jeff, it o or did she offer?"

I had to really think about it

"I think that she offered No, wait…I told her that I wanted to go since I’d not been a part of the pregnancy for the first seven months"

Ari turned her head and took a deep breath What is she thinking?

"Okay Did she give you the appointive you?"

"Uht before I came over, she sent me a text with her appointment time and directions to the doctor’s office"

Ari jumped up, reached for my phone, and then handed it to me

"Can I see it?"

I nodded my head "Of course, you can see it"

I opened up the e and showed it to Ari She made a face and then handed the phone back toto drop the stupid-ass restraining order against o

"No, I asked twice She feels like it would be…safer for her to keep it up until the baby is born"

"Okay, she’s a weirdo Does she think I would actually hurt her? Holy hell! What else did y’all talk about?"

I lay there for aelse I left out I really just wanted to put the whole thing as far out of mya high-risk pregnancy She can’t get upset and that kind of shit She talked about painting the baby’s roo up a crib Ah shit, I don’t know Ari I wasn’t even listening to her through half the conversation"

Lying back down under the covers, Ari ain After we’d just spent probably the best night of our lives together, she was pulling away froain I couldn’t believe how much I’d wanted her earlier She’d looked so unbelievable beautiful, her skin glowing, as her eyes filled with love

"Ari, please don’t pull away froain, baby"

She rolled over to her side to look at me "You can’t let her pull us apart, Jeff Promise me that you won’t let that happen"

I pulled her closer to ers through her hair She s my heart pound hard in my chest Maybe it was just this whole bullshit with Rebecca I was so afraid that I was going to lose Ari over this I can’t let that happen I won’t let that happen

"I promise, baby She won’t pull us apart I pro her hand on ently on the lips I wanted her so badly again I deepened the kiss as I rolled her over, cliin on top of her

"Jeff" She moaned

"I love you so much, Ari"

I started to

"Ignore it," Ari said as she pushed her hips up into me

No problem

My voice mail notification went off

"God, Ari, you feel like heaven baby"

Ari set tired of seeing that s on top ofheaven