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From Cole’s perspective, it sounded like Dylan was definitely trying to hide a drinking problem He wondered how far back this proble to face hi into the office at all these days and as much as I want to send Jake out on his own, I’ most of it, but I still need soht word”

“Has Ashleigh tried to talk to hi not to confirer Yes, he was pissed But Alex and Dylan were friends, and they both deserved the benefit of the doubt

Alex’s face fell as he appeared to prepare his answer Cole didn’t try to rush hiet the infornant,” Alex finally blurted, sad green eyes peering up at hi in his chest He would’ve expected Alex to be shouting the news from the rooftops Unless, of course, there was a proble else, so he waited, not so patiently for Alex to continue

Sierra and Ashleigh had forged a friendship al that she didn’t know about the pregnancy Or if she did, she didn’t mention it to hiine her keeping soain, if there were probleh had asked her not to

“She’s not very far along, but she’s had so The doctor told her that everything’s fine For now As you can i hard “I’ He couldn’t even ih He’d been a nervous wreck since they found out that Sierra was pregnant and up to this point, things had gone exactly as expected

“Does Dylan know?”

“Are you kidding?” Alex pushed up out of his chair “You don’t kno many times I’ve wanted to tell him, to beat him over the head and let hi to lose our baby, and he’s not helping the situation I can’t do it to hi When I try to put ine what it would feel like to lose Ashleigh, I’ood of shape as he’s in now”

Cole couldn’t argue with Alex’s logic If he put hiht years later

“Has anyone tried to talk to hian was probably the closest to Dylan, but he had no idea whether anyone would be able to get through to hian’s tried He succeeded about as well as we did Ashleigh’s refusing to get married until Dylan is better, but hell, I’m not sure that’ll ever happen”

Cole syetmeant he was probably even , down to the details froht just push it off if Dylan kept going down this path

If the three of the to Dylan, Cole wasn’t sure anyone would be able to get through to hi Clearly Dylan didn’t want to talk, but sos they didn’t want to do

“Do you knohy he broke it off with Sarah?”

“No clue It doesn’t sound like she knows either That, or whatever happened between theo, they got into an argument, and Dylan walked out on her I heard that h they weren’t that close, I get the ihly protective of his aunt The woman had practically raised him after her sister realized she didn’t want kids – unfortunately that was after Jake was born Sarah was several years younger than Jake’swith Jake’s grand to bits and pieces of conversations he’d heard, Sarah had been h he wasn’t sure what had happened there, but he knew she didn’t have any children of her own

If he thought it would do any good, he’d be willing to talk to Dylan, but of all of theether closely when McKenna Thorne was going through soan, but it wasn’t like they’d actually had any personal conversations And since Dylan wasn’t returning his phone calls, it was pretty clear that Cole wasn’t high on his list of people to talk to about anything, much less his problems