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After a short pause, Keith nodded "You won’t leave oddamn kid How could he breakabout grass?

"Hopefully not for a long, long time, kid But do you understand what I said about your er, and his face pinched like he was trying to figure out a difficult problem Finally, he hesitantly said, "Moht," I said, relief coating the word "And just because your Ben is in the grassy place, doesn’t mean you can’t have another dad someday, okay?" I waited until he nodded, then jerked o kiss your uess so"

I messed with his hair when I stood, and walked the rest of the way toward Charlie

She had a hand pressed fir down her face and over her hand

I dropped to ently pulled her hand down and brushed her wild blond hair away froan, but didn’t continue as her head fell She tucked her chin to her chest as a soft sob forced from her chest

I was ready for it, for whatever she would say I didn’t knohat all they had told her, but I was ready to fight for her, just as I had been for the past three weeks

"What are you doing to me?" she choked out when I lifted her face back up so I could wipe her tears away

Her makeup was smeared, her cheeks et and red, and her bottom lip ollen from where she’d bit down on it too eous

"I’h "What are you doing to my heart?"

My thu insidedown the hall, and that trigger disappeared as I followed her line of sight

Keith

"How ain

"All of it"

Her hand gripped ainst reedily for a few seconds before she silently begged rip loosened, and her palers were curled into hed into our kiss when she opened her mouth to me, then teased htest pressure against my chest