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“No, I just enjoy giving you things”

Julia kissed hi the flashlight aside

When they separated, he placed his palht his lips to the indentation that lay just beyond his thumb

“I want to plant , Julia froze

“What?”

“I’d like to have a child with you”

She caught her breath “So soon?”

His thumb moved over her skin “We never kno ht of Grace, his adoptive ical es, but under very different circumstances

“Dante lost Beatrice when she enty-four,” he continued “Losing you would be devastating”

Julia reached up to touch the slight dimple in his chin “No morbid talk Not here, after we’ve celebrated life and love”

Gabriel spread repentant kisses across her abdo on his side

“I’ve almost outlived Beatrice and I’m healthy” She placed her hand on his chest, over his tattoo, and touched the na heart “Is your anxiety because of Maia?”

Gabriel’s features tightened “No”

“It’s all right if it is”

“I know she’s happy”

“I believe that too” Julia hesitated, as if she were going to say so about Sharon”

“And?”

“She wasn’t a good role ainst hers

“You’d be an excellent , patient, and kind”

“I wouldn’t knohat I was doing”

“We’d figure it out together I’ical parents were the definition of dysfunctional, and I haven’t exactly lived a sterling ood with Tammy’s little boy Even your brother says so But it’s too soon for a baby, Gabriel We’ve only been reed to that, if you reer