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I sighed "Yep"

"Wow"

I didn’t bother asking if that was a goodor a badHonestly, I didn’t care It was really aard sitting on a bench with your children’s estranged father, who your new boyfriend, who just happens to be the star goalie of your state’s professional hockey teaht Zone All other Mondays would be forever easy compared to this one

"Do you love him?"

Zach’s question bounced around ht I didn’t hear him and he repeated it

"Do you love hiht in the eye "With everything I have"

Zach slad You deserve to be happy, Kacie Always have As long as he’s good to the girls, I don’t have a problem with it"

What?

"What?" I glared at him

He held his hands up in front of hi as he’s good to the girls, I don’t have a problem with it’"

I juet off thinking you have any sort of say in what I do with irls’ for that matter?"

He stood up and put his hand on my arm "Kacie, relax"

"No!" I snatched my arm away from him "You disappear for FIVE years Then, by so in the saet it I’ll never fully forget it, but I can forgive it"

"Kacie--"

"But don’t think for one second you have any right to tell me what I should and shouldn’t do with irls They have been irls"

"I wasn’t trying to tell you what to do--" He stopped talking and looked pasttoward us with their little arms full of leaves "Look!" they both squealed

"Wow That’s airls You can take the Mommy has to work in awhile" I tried to make my tone as normal as possible

They both stuck their bottouys Co lot

"Bye, Zach" Piper waved as they followed me