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Keith was officially e had barely asked lanced at the proof that I’d actually done all that he’d asked He’d er’s word, and had talked to Keith without any of us in the rooain, I didn’t care

I had broken down outside the courthouse, tears of joy unlike anything I’d ever experienced streaer had forced me to stand up and walk toto let hio yet

Keith had smiled the cheesiest smile and patted my cheek "Silly Mommy You’ve always been my mommy!" he’d said after he’d climbed into his booster seat

"See?" Grey had asked softly fronature neverto him"

I didn’t know if anyone would be able to understand the significance of today for me, but that was okay, because it wasn’t for theer and Grey pointed out, I had rateful for But they still didn’t knohat I’d gone through They didn’t know the extent of what Moive up custody They didn’t know thataway

Jagger had thought he was keeping ourhow evil ourMoer

She hadn’t ever fooled any of us She’d just fooled us into believing that each of us was the only one who knehat she really was

After two years of living in fear for that I would wake up andI wouldn’t be able to do anything because he wasn’t e tell me that I wasn’t fit to have custody transferred to me, the fear that he could disappear at any tier and Grey would never do sohts when people try to keep them from their children

But that was all over now

Keithdown, and took an exaggerated breath "Safe fros"

"Whew, buddy I don’t knoould have made it out of there without you"

He nodded seriously "Good thing I’ If you would’ve woken up as Magneto, we asped wildly, and hter "Mandeeto! Mo!"

I drew in a shocked breath and let lanced warily at the table "Oh no," I breathed, and slowly reached toward the spoon that lay forgotten next to his bowl of soupy ice crea the spoon, I looked into Keith’s worried eyes, and whispered, "We need to leave before the ladybugs corab cash out of my wallet As soon as I had it placed within the billfold, I took Keith’s hand and helped him slide out of the booth, then pretended to run out of the restaurant with hihs from the people inside--this was the best day oflot, then helped hier’s

Yeah, I’d done that too

After Deacon and his dad had done everything they could to get my car to run for more than a few minutes at a time, I’d let Deacon take me to look at cars earlier that week

It was a e and didn’t make me want to die when I looked at the price And most of all, Keith loved it and my mechanic had approved