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"Marrywould make me happier than to be your wife, and I’m pretty sure I already said yes"

Reed leaned his forehead against er, hurt, and fear leaving his body

He slowly pulled out of"We better head back"

As we started towash over my whole body

For the first ti toward the light

I pulled my truck up and parked behind Layton’s He had calledhe had to do and didn’t want to be alone for it

As I walked into the barn, I saw Layton in Blazin’ Drea?"

Layton turned and looked at uy is going to ht hi His first race is in a month"

I walked up to the horse and smiled "He sure is one beautiful boy, isn’t he?"

Layton nodded his head as he gave the horse a few pats on the side, and then he began walking out of the stall He ran his hand through his hair and reached down into a cooler to grab a beer "Want one?"

"Sure, I’ll take one"

Layton tossed me one and sat down on a bench

I opened up the beer and took a quick drink before sitting down next to hiood two minutes in silence

"Talk to me, Layton"

He reached into his back pocket, pulled out a piece of paper, and handed it to me I took one look at it and knehat it was

"The letter?" I asked as I looked over at him

"Yep He asked that I not read it until I found out I was going to be a father I guess that means I have to read it now"

"You haven’t read it yet?" I asked as I watched the pain fill his eyes I hadn’t seen that in his eyes for solanced down at the letter in my hands Shit What in the world did his father write to hi myself to read it, Reed I can’t I need you to read it to me"

I snapped my head over at him and dropped my mouth open "Huh? You want me to read it to you? Layton…I’m not sure…"

Layton stood up and downed his beer "I’ drunk, Reed I was short with Whitley this ht I have been in this da me a couple of twelve packs of beer I can’t do this alone I can’t read it"