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"Because I care" I reached down and took the keys from her hand "I’ll drive You’re a terrible driver" I knew that would piss her off, but I liked annoying the hell out of her

"I am not! This is my car, and I’ll drive it!" She stomped her foot for elare "Get in the fucking car I’ument, and as I’d expected, she backed down froht position

"Fine," she er seat

I waited until I was turned around to grin I doubted she’d likeinto her soing to need a larger and safer vehicle for the baby"

She sighed "I know that Why are you doing this?"

Change of subject "I told you that seven days and five hours and twenty-two ot already"

Nan h of frustration "Yes, you did But you’ve been gone since then, so I assuive me the exact aedher? Did she think so little of love? Her dae was deep I had to be careful with that "Yes, I did Twenty-threeout of town and toward Destin, where I knew her doctors office was I didn’t look at her I let it soak in The fact that I was here The fact that she was about to realize I knehere ere going and I wasn’t asking her for directions The fact that I loved her and I wasn’t going anywhere Even when she ran from me

"Are you h

"Probably not," I replied with cohed Soht a lot intoI’d had very little of in ht I loved Gannon, but he doesn’t exist It was a role you were playing I don’t know you We’re having a child together, and I may not like you at all I may hate you" Her honesty was part of her charm that people couldn’t handle

"The otten but you It was real I didn’t pretend to be anyone other than iven anyone I trusted you with me Like I kneould, we clicked Locked into place like two lost pieces waiting for their match"

She didn’t respond to that We drove on in silence for a while