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Within ten seconds he was asleep

“He’s asleep?” Jaeger asked, his eyes ith surprise “How does he do that?”

Piper smiled “That’s—” she pulled back the your just in time “—my son Want me to put him back into his stroller?”

Jaeger shook his head “I’ll carry him”

They resulance at hi me about Andrea?” she prompted him

“Yeah” Jaeger blew out his breath “One e students The next ere about to be parents with no friggin’ idea ere doing Andy threw herself into being a stay-at-ho for the baby It was all she could think about, all she could talk about”

“She was excited?”

“Insanely” Jaeger’s bottom lip disappeared between his teeth “Her entire focus became the baby She couldn’t think about anyone else, evenfor her affection with our unborn child and I was losing”

“You loved her,” Piper stated

“I did She was el into a fa, but life was good Andy was happy being a s smoothed out”

Jealousy oozed into Piper’s veins Lucky, lucky, lucky Andrea to be the first and probably only wo man “What happened?”

Jaeger placed his hand on Ty’s back, his jaw brushing the top of Ty’s head “It was a SundayAndy nursed Jess and put her down in her crib I went to check on her fifteen, twenty one”

Piper placed her hand across her“Oh, God” she murmured “SIDS?”

Jaeger nodded “I tried to resuscitate her, but I knew my efforts were useless”