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"Stop" My voice was a whisper

"You never should have been with hiot louder

"And I never should have touched another woman, no matter that you wouldn’t speak to me, wouldn’t look at ht of the accident and for one year before the ranch Everything else rong It should have never happened like that My only excuse was that I’d lost all hope" His voice went fro on each word "If I’d had even an ounce of hope left that you would let ain, I would have waited for you" He made a visible effort to calm himself

He took a very deep breath "And then I saw you with that piece of shit--"

"Stop it! He’s not a piece of shit He’s actually a very nicehate him, so please don’t talk hi louder by the word "When I saw you that night, the way he ith you, touching you with privilege, I knew that I couldn’t go on like that any that I was okay with the way things turned out

I tried it your way, Danika No one can say, that six fking years later, I didn’t try to respect your wishes, but I a And I’ life, I aain"

I had no words, for once And I couldn’t ine how to react to his state inside of me, some hardened part ofwere not so I was ready yet to contemplate

"So that is how I know for a fact that it is not my baby," he continued relentlessly, "and she knows it too She’s turned ht she was, and that’s unfortunate; it has cost her job, but she does not have the power she thinks she does to hurt what you and I have No one has that poith the exception of you and me So, sweetheart, please, I just need you to have a little bit more faith"

"Why didn’t you tell ?"

"You hadn’t even ads were over with Andrew Did you expectlike that, when I didn’t even know if you were ju from his bed to mine? I do have some pride left, even when it comes to you"

"I told you about Andrew--"

"Yes, well, that was later, and by then ere avoiding this subject, not finding new reasons to talk about it"

I’d been so full of anger, so fueled by wrath, that when it left round if he hadn’t caughtarms I laid my head on his chest as he kissed the top of my head I could have stayed there forever