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Calluhed ‘It’s patently obvious you don’t want to be here, Hailey’

‘No, really, I…’ What? I what? I’ more than to babysit your not-out-of-the-woods-yet adorable six-year-old?

‘Hailey, I’m hardly likely to leave my son with a woman who looks like she’d rather have a hole drilled in her head’

She felt a shaft of guilt lance her chest She closed her eyes briefly and shut the door ‘I’m sorry Go Really I’ at her expectantly Waiting for her to say so that would make her behaviour less odd Unfortunately, she couldn’t think of a da ‘You wouldn’t understand’

Callum put his hands on his hips ‘Try me’

‘Tooth’s done, Daddy’

Tom’s chirpy interruption was just what Hailey needed to pull herself together She’d al really stupid Like, I feel insanely attracted to you and I’m petrified

Callu He crouched down ‘Open up,’ he said

Tom opened his ood, To and inhaled the sweet smell of bubblebath and baby powder His heart ached in his chest as Toht

They were a tea life and been through soh times Tom desperately wanted a mother—and a baby brother—but Callum just wasn’t in the market for a relationship, no matter how much Hailey had revived his libido

Losing Annie had been hard and he didn’t want to set himself up for any h to fall for someone who had ‘Keep out’ written all over her He didn’t need soe than him

‘C’mon, Hailey’ Tom squirmed out of his father’s embrace and took his reluctant babysitter’s hand ‘Do you like reading? Can you read to me?’

Hailey’s gaze locked with Callued it away ‘I like reading best of all’ Hailey pulled her own book out of her bag and waggled it, grinning down at Tom

‘I like it theher hobbling fore

Callu on some shoes He wandered into the kitchen and placed Tohter drifted in to hied in the archway between the two rooms for a few minutes