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Silence greeted the end of his harangue, the only sound being that of his gently panting breath What else did they need to hear? His , a clincher on the whole deal

Her parents exchanged a long look Brian’s eyebroere nearly in his hairline, but he gave Ian the nudge he needed "There’s different kinds of support"

Ian nodded "I ht not be much financially, but I’ll be there in every other capacity I can be I proht now"

"I’ve been so worried about her," Kelsey put in swiftly, looking at Mr and Mrs Ross "Whenever I talk to her, she just…doesn’t sound like herself"

"No," Gabby’s mother admitted "She doesn’t"

Kelsey didn’t let up "Do you really want her back with the man who humiliated her in front of the entire Dallas medical community? Her friends and family? The people she wants to ith? I mean, I don’t know about you, but I am not happy about that She deserves so ht Ian played that angle now "I would take her to the altar tomorrow, if she would have me And you’d better believe I would be there to meet her She wouldn’t be able to keep me away"

Both of her parents smiled at that Evan took his son fro entirely convinced but not seeo

"Coer, apparently "I got Candace pregnant, and not one of you really gave a crap You’re all freaking out and trying to run Gabby’s life because she’s a girl, the freaking princess Get over it It really should be up to her, not you"

Ian wanted to cringe at his input, correct though it ht be, but he was afraid toelse

"Well," Mr Ross began, looking down at his wife, "I suppose it cohed and nodded, and his gaze flickered up to Ian’s, narrowing slightly "It’s up to Gabby, then Whatever she decides is e’ll support"

"Oh, hed "Now you really have your work cut out for you, dude"

Chapter Twenty-One

"Now you really have your work cut out for you"

Wasn’t it the damn truth

He’d tried to call her No luck She was out with her doctor Ian could i, Fuck hi it Or maybe she was too occupied to check it in the first place

It was thoughts like that one that had him on the road to Dallas as the sun fell below the horizon He didn’t knohat he was going to find when he got there, but whatever it was, it would be his fault

For that reason, he couldn’t bring hiistered She was there and she was lonely Even if the only thing the doctor represented was a night away fro it Hell, even if she had fallen into his arht, could he really blaht

Despite all these frenzied thoughts, souy had most likely come to his senses in her absence, and he’d be a daet a wo it cool and thinking long and hard about anyto hi hiht before she ain, he didn’t know Uncertainty stretched before hi and dark as the interstate beneath the wheels of his Harley

"No dessert?" Mark asked as the waiter caain

"No, thanks" Gabby laid her napkin on the table top, well and truly stuffed for probably the first ti when she was stressed--and while nothing had really changed about the latter, her appetite had roared to life the moment they strolled into her favorite restaurant

Aled Mark had seen one of his colleagues upon entering, who’d reether She’d held her tongue, and Mark certainly hadn’t raced to correct theif it was true