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"I’," I lied I absolutely was It hat I did best

I wasn’t ready to absorb what he was saying Okay, that wasn’t true I wasn’t ready to set s came to an end eventually Even love Not that I knew The only person I’d ever truly loved had gonefor ten years and now hateda slice of pizza in my direction

"What?"

"One pepperoni and one whatever the hell you want I’ll eat either Hannah likes cheese, but Travis likes pepperoni, so I pick the and voila: instant cheese pizza That’s what you order in the future"

I sed hard, unsure whether to accept the out he’d just offered

Soin love with you too But, with atrip I’m still not completely convinced you aren’t a serial killer"

Porter s but the truth"

He cocked his head to the side, abut the truth?"

Imy heart

"Okay, then How many times have you listened to my voiceot busy packing up the sasbord of leftover pizzas

"You know, the one when I told you I loved you, like, a week ago The one you confessed to only getting last night" His arrogant s you don’t know about And the one, I have no doubt, you listened to at least two dozen times because you love me too And you h "Wow You are quite full of yourself tonight, aren’t you?"

His heat hit ht"

"I listened to it once," I lied, resting my hands on top of his

He chuckled and dipped low to press his lips to ive him more room as he peppered kisses up to my ear

"What happened to the truth?" he teased before nipping atshoulders and into the back of his hair "It got lost with your huh

And then, as his hand slipped over my breast, mine turned into a full-blown moan

Moments later, after a quick check to make sure the kids were still asleep, it turned into a full-blown repeat perforhts on

"Hannah!" I hissed "Leave her alone!"

My daughter turned to look at me, her face filled with awe as she stood over Charlotte "She’s still asleep"

"I know!" I hissed, waving an urgent hand toaround her apart to let her sleep This included eating three bowls of cereal in her bed at six thirty in thetreated as I’d crawled out from under her on the couch and headed down the hall to help my son The hum of the nebulizer was loud, but we did our best to keep it quiet by going into the bathroo both of the doors I supposed she hadn’t been sleeping any better than I had over the last week, and pair that with a night of aard yet coured she was down for the count

It made me an epic weirdo, but I could have watched her peacefully sleeping for hours

And it seehter shared the infatuation

"Get over here!" I whisper-yelled, silently snapping , she skipped over and took uided her back into the bedroom and quietly closed the door behind us

"Travis, your new ht for the bed, where she climbed up to sit with her brother

He didn’t even look up from his iPad as he replied, "She’s not my new mommy"