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How could he miss her so much when he’d hardly known her? He’d spent his days at work, a lot of ti, and he’d had an hour or tith her on weekdays, slightly more on weekends Yet her death created a hole in both his and Andrea’s hearts, a hole that widened until it beca they fell into it and were lost As individuals and as a couple

“Hey, sorry I didn’t hear him”

Keeping his hand on Ty so he reer looked around Piper’s hair was a ed and she had a pillow crease on her cheek She looked tired but, hell, still hot She walked into the room and saw the dirty diaper, the pile of baby wipes on the counter

“You changed hi Ty up and dropping a kiss on his head

Jaeger shrugged “I thought you needed to sleep,” Jaeger replied, his voice rough Oh, God, he prayed she hadn’t heard hi your past; it was another confessing it

Ty leaned away froer stepped back and lifted up his hands “Sorry, I don’t do babies”

Piper looked at the dirty diaper, the open jar of creaed his diaper but you don’t do babies? Do you kno nuts that sounds?”

Of course he did But it wasn’t like he could tell her the truth Jaeger shrugged and o I’m late for dinner”

Piper nodded and cocked her head “Nobody is keeping you here, Jaeger,” she murmured, her voice soft and nonaccusatory

Yeah, fair point Yet it still took everything Jaeger had to get his feet to move

Six

On the following Thursday, the flight fro into the city frohed Ceri would’ve bathed and put Ty to bed by now, and he’d be asleep She hated the days when she didn’t see Ty She’d left before he woke this , and her appraisal of a private collection of Cuban art had taken longer than she’d anticipated, which necessitated her taking a later flight back to New York

She wanted to go holass of wine and chill out Actually, what she really wanted was to go home, kiss her baby and cli blue eyes and a quirky ser since Sunday—how could four days feel like a decade?—and the time apart only see