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Piper hadn’t Not once

Jaeger dropped his feet to the ground and placed his forear below his feet If he and Piper hadn’t fought, would she have told him? Ty was his son, a Ballantyne, his flesh and blood She had no right to keep Jaeger from his child

He wanted to rewind ti love to Piper that first time, rerow round and full, see Ty on the sonar screen, be the one to catch him as he entered the world

Maybe he was being unfair but he didn’t care Piper had cheated hi nine iveness wasn’t possible

He’d lost time he could never recover, and not because of amnesia Piper had made the decision to keep Ty from hier’s anger was a living, breathing entity, crawling under his skin

But he had to find a way to deal with her, because he had every intention of being in his son’s life He wasn’t interested in an hour here or a weekend there Feeling a little ht, he no that he wanted to see Ty every damned day

Jaeger glanced up as his coer rubbed his jaw, acknowledging that being Ty’s dad would ielobe He couldn’t be a full-ti the world Would he have to choose between his career and his son? Could he give up the job he loved to spend more time with Ty?

Yeah If it came to that, he would He’d had so little time with his own parents before their deaths, but as an adult reflecting on that period, he clearly re with hiive Ty that kind of fa was er than him

Jaeger had thought Piper ht be as important, but that just showed him how ridiculous he could be when it came to women He’d started to fall in love with her Thank God he’d e

Oh, as he kidding? He’d tumbled off that cliff the day she’d walked into his office a little less than teeks back He’d probably fallen in love with her back in Milan when they first made love She’d snuck under his skin, clied a takeover of his heart

He loved her, but he couldn’t trust her

First Andy, now Piper Why couldn’t he find a woman he could love and trust?

Jaeger stood up and jammed his hands into his suit pockets Piper would be here in ten minutes to finalize the purchase of her stones, and he had to pull hiether

He couldn’t let her kno much she affected him, how seasick he felt She’d flipped his heart and his world and his life upside down, and he now had to find a new type of normal

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Piper walked into the i her uncle’s diary against her chest She placed the old book and her bag on the sleek conference table and refused the offer of a cup of coffee froer brother, shook her hand, and Sage gave her a quick hug Jaeger, standing across the rooe her presence and turned his attention back to the phone in his hand

So, his feelings hadn’t changed between Saturday night and now That was the price she had to pay for wanting to protect her son She’d lied to Jaeger, and he wasn’t going to forgive her

Piper took a seat at the table and adry Despite trying to contact him, many times, she’d still kept him from his son and that, in his eyes, was reprehensible He’d tossed her a quick, hot question about her motivations but he hadn’t pushed her for an explanation If he cared for her, even a little, shouldn’t he have, at the very least, tried to understand her choices?

Piper darted a look at Jaeger’s hard face and sighed Dressed in solid black—dress shirt, tie and suit pants—he looked as accessible as a black hole And as cuddly Suddenly she saw the hard-eyed, edgy businesse hiranite face, she wouldn’t erous But, dammit, still so sexy