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He glanced down at the sleeping baby, and then back up at her

"I’ll go and put hi up carefully He turned back before he disappeared inside, uncertainty on his face "I’ll be a couple of ain, that hot ball of tears burning her throat She didn’t answer him, just turned away and sat down in the low deck chair he’d vacated The heat from his body warmed hers

Yes She’d wait

Below deck, Dylan laid the baby down in the makeshift cradle he’d fashioned hiht one, but the idea of a shopping trip with a baby in tow terrified hi Billy's naptiazine, but it was good enough, and that needed to be enough, for now at least

Kara was here He’d worked hard on resigning hiain, but she was actually here, right now, here on his deck, cowboy boots and all, and he had no idea how the hell to play it

He unfolded a second chair on deck a few side her The ansas siht He owed her that at the very least

"Why are you here, Kara?"

His question held no trace of confrontation, ned sense of defeat

"To hear the truth frouess" Kara shook her head, her eyes on the horizon "I need to knohy Was it all a big game for you?"

"Kara, no…"

"I wake up every day and wonder how I could have been such a ht I knew better, but it feels like I’irl who never learns her lessons My father Richard You Is there so aboutpathetic, needy?"

Deep frown lines creased his brow

"I lied, Kara I lied and you believedperson, which is a fucking iven the number of people who’ve let you down That I’m the latest na to disappear," she said tonelessly She’d come here to reclai him of his "That makes you a man who lies and then runs from his problereith a father like that, reer made her harsh, and she twisted to look him directly in the eyes "I don’t envy your child"

It was a lie She did She envied the baby that he’d get to spend every day with Dylan

But every one of her words hit their target, and he took her arrows because she had every right in the world to hate him