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The baby was in his high chair eating his whole grain cheerios and sipping his juice out of his sippee cup when Aiden came into the kitchen Eric’s face automatically lit up when he saw his daddy and he reached his chubby little arms up towards him Aiden went over and wiped his face and hands and picked hi him on one of his chubby little cheeks

“I hope you kno much Daddy loves you”

Eric was still s at his daddy’s face

“I think he does,” I told hih

“I’o back to the office for a while”

“Tonight?” I said I looked at the clock; it was seven-forty-five

“Yeah, I’enuinely distressed by it I didn’t want to add any more stress than he already had, but I was distressed by it too He went on to say, “There are soht They have to be sent to Thailand and it’s athis deal”

“Couldn’t they send them over to you?”

“That’s what I asked Randall, but he can’t find the original docuhher phone She’s another issue that I’ll have to deal with soon; she’s had a lot of issues lately But, tonight I have to get these docuo if it wasn’t really important, Holly It could literally mean a loss of billions of dollars to ht he had to keep apologizing He had Eric in one arm and he put the other around me and pulled me into them He kissed me and then kissed our son and said, “I love you both so much I promise, as soon as this deal is done, I’ll be home so much that you’ll both be sick of me”

I wanted to be annoyed with hiether for a year and a half, he could still char My heart and soul were overwhelmed by love for hio

“Okay,” I told hi so enuinely sick of you”

“I guarantee it,” he said with a grin I watched his and head out I doubted that there was any situation that existed where I would be sick of hi qualities to overshadow them that they were hardly noticeable

After Aiden left I bathed the baby and put hiht I always sat in his roo to me I finally pulled myself back up and kissed his little forehead softly, and then I took the baby htening up the aparts weren’t ever too out of sorts, but Eric had so s that they were always everywhere Aiden had offered to hire both a nanny and a housekeeper forcare of a home and an infant wasn’t easy work, but when it was your hohts I went to bed exhausted, but with a sive that pleasure over to anyone else I put the toys away and washed the few dishes in the sink I started turning out the lights and planned to go to bed and read my new book, when I passed Aiden’s jacket on the back of the chair I stopped and picked it up and took it over to hang in the closet where I kept the dry-cleaning that needed to be picked up When I lifted it up off the chair, one of Aiden’s business cards fell out of the breast pocket I bent to pick it up and saw that there was a nunized it as a Scarsdale area code because of all the time I’d spent there before Eric was born when Aiden and I were split up andup the jacket and went to sit the card back on the table where Aiden could find it I looked at it again and wondered…why didn’t he write a name down too?

I started letting ht about how he looked relieved earlier that it was Randall on the phone That ht much about since it happened I had been in the bedrooo while Aiden was in the shower His phone was ringing and I picked it up I wasn’t going to answer it, I was going to take it to hi ith a towel around his waist