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They drifted to bed where they lay awake, facing each other in the dark, as she listened to Gage’s plans for his i fatherhood There was no subject too inane, from the color of the walls in his son’s new rooe would buy him when he turned sixteen

Cass sestion that he let his son pick out his own car Far be it fro through it and her job was to be there for him It was nice to be needed by the one man who had never needed her Heady even

“Thank you,” he said abruptly “For co condeure this out and I couldn’t have without you”

What, like he was expecting her to shake her finger at hi responsibility? She shook her head “You’re giving me too much credit I just responded to a phone call You did the hard part”

“No I don’t do hard” His voice went scratchy but he blazed ahead “I get out before anything difficult happens Back at your house, that was supposed to be about burning off the tension so we could focus It wasn’t supposed to be the start of soht?”

That was the first time she’d ever heard hi it was the first step toward curing it, right?

“Yeah I kneasn’t anything more than sex”

“What if I want it to be?” he asked, sincerity warh her in the dark It was as if he’d read the same question in her heart and voiced it out loud

“What if you do?” she heard herself repeat when she should have been saying so what? Or this is goodbye right now “Have things changed?”

Please, God Let that be true and not a huge mistake

His hand found hers, threading their fingers together, and the rightness of it drifted through her like a bal if this was the topic

If she hadn’t gotten in the car when he asked her to cootten to watch this e

“So s,” he repeated quietly “I’ive up I wanted it and I was going after it But so the way, I started to want more”