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"You better figure--"

"I’ll give you what I gave you last tiain I’m done after this, understand?"

Mrs Easton’s wicked smile turned triumphant and she took a step away "Your shift here is almost over, correct?" When I didn’t respond, she turned around and called out, "I’ll be waiting outside"

My boss, Anne, came up beside htly

"Did that person not want anything or" She trailed off, leaving er’s , sorry about that"

"Oh!" She looked in the direction Mrs Easton had gone to , "Your conversation looked kind of heated I was trying to figure out if I should step in and save you"

A hard laugh burst past ht, but it was fine Sorry, she brought family stuff here"

Anne snorted "This is Thatch When isn’t there fa on everywhere?"

"That’s true," Ithe shop and handed it to Mrs Easton without a word as I walked tobecause of her, but I was praying that now that I had et custody of Keith before Mrs Easton ca in Graha back and forth in my mind about whether or not I should tell hiht up my weird "hypothetical" situation since the day we’d talked about it, and I knew there was no way to keep Jagger’s name out of it if I fessed up He would know the question was too personal, he would do the ure it out, and then he’d just be pissed that I hadn’t been up front with hi to tell me why you toldhow I live with Knox and Deacon, but I didn’t knohy you wouldn’t want to talk to er"

I sed thickly and started twisting ain if you’re pregnant, but I’er would know" A couple seconds passed before he asked sheepishly, "You’re not pregnantright?"

"No, Grahanant"

"Okay, well then, what is so bad that you couldn’t let Jagger be here with you?"

I can do this I can do this, and I need Graham’s help, I reminded myself With a shaky breath, I squared my shoulders and looked at my brother "Do you remember when I asked what you would do in that hypothetical scenario that wasn’t so hypothetical?"

"Yes" he said slowly, drawing out the word