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Silence reigned for a few long seconds as the woaze shifted from Dylan to Kara

"Looks like it’s down to me to make the introductions, darlin’," she said, her eyebrows raised over her bitterly triuo with a shove and turned to Kara The look on his face broke her heart clean in two Her world was about to turn upside down She knew it in that split second as she waited mutely to hear what Dylan – or the woonna be fuckin’ priceless," Justin laughed Without a second’s hesitation, Dylan swung around and punched him so hard on the jaw that he fell to his knees Kara flinched, as uished, aniet as for the sound of knuckles se, Matthew," the wo with apparent disinterest as Justin staggered to his feet, swiping blood from hishard enough to give him a coronary It wasn’t supposed to end like this

"Kara…" he said, hating the hunted look in her eyes and wanting like hell to hold her

"She called you Matthew," Kara whispered, her face ashen even in the ht "Why did she call you Matthew?"

The woh escaped her throat

"Oh erous beyond reason "She doesn’t even know your fucking na his eyes off Kara He reached for her hands but she stepped backwards, out of his reach

"Who is she?" Kara de his answer

Suzie didn’t shut the fuck up She stepped up alongside Dylan instead and stuck her hand out Kara stared at it du her hand with a shrug, laying it on Dylan’s bicep instead "His wife" She glanced sideways and waved her other hand towards the pushchair "And that’s his son"

Chapter Thirty-Six

Kara ran She ran barefoot across the beach, as fast as she could without looking back She heard Dylan call her naht her easily, his arainst his chest as she struggled, throwing her elbows back into his body as hard and viciously as she could

"Let ainst hith in her

"She’s not ht "Not any rasp, winded by his words He let go slowly, as if he feared she was preparing to run again But she wasn’t She didn’t want to run, suddenly She wanted to hit hiive hi her at that moot to , Dylan" She laughed, acid-harsh, as she said his name "Or Matthew Which is it?" She shook her head, and the icy revulsion in her eyes chilled his bones "I only ever asked you for honesty"

"I wanted to tell you, Kara," he said hopelessly "I wanted to tell youopportunities," she threw back "Months Months of working alongsidetodad" She was crying now, big, heavy sobs dragging on her chest that ardless "You really saw , didn’t you?"

In the distance, the baby cried out