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“Nathan tried to figure out who did it, and ed “But I can neither confirm nor deny that”

“How did you seriously an murmured

Cade shrugged “There isn’t a lawyer or cop alive who doesn’t know some crie” He closed the folder “Jordan means too o without a fight”

Sentiments shared Cade had taken care of one half of the probleirl and get her back home

23

Harrison

Two Weeks Later

I was rushing over to Ethan’s after he had begun saying so Rando me unused profiles of nannies that we had passed on e hired Jordan I didn’t know if he was just trying to upsetfor a new nanny, but either way, he clearly required intervention

Jordan had been gone for just shy of ato juggle our jobs andco apart froht, effervescent face around to brighten all of our lives The kids were downright depressed with her gone, and even out round robin of putting up Christmas decorations at one another’s homes had done little to lift their spirits Our hoarlands, and presents, but our gloominess doused the cheer Weto, and I still couldn’t shake the feeling that everything was my fault

I entered Ethan’s house just after he’d gotten the twins down for bed, and he was in his den working on a glass of scotch, with a nearly eily, his sunken eyes and sullen expression glowing in the light of the den’s roaring fireplace I noticed as I got further into the roo athered theed “I have copies”

“Why are you even looking at these?” I growled “Replace Jordan? Have you lost your mind?”

“Have you lost yours?” Ethan said “I want her back , but it’s been three weeks and she hasn’t so much as confirmed she’s alive Fuck her We’ll find someone else”

“You don’t mean that,” I said to hiet a new nanny What would the kids think? What would the guys think? We can’t just forget her like she was never a part of our lives”

“You think that’s what I want?” Ethan said, his voice rising “I don’t want to forget her, but she’s not here, Harrison! She left She left us, she left our kids This is anted a nanny in the first place, because we need one”

“Put yourself in her shoes,” I retorted “Given what she’d just learned”

“You told us all of that shit for the first time, and we’re still here” He stood up “What about you? Doesn’t it hurt you that she actually believes you’re capable of so so horrible?”

The truth was, that fact hadn’t left my brain for a moment “It does” It haunted ether, I hadn’t successfully convinced her that I was a rity ould never harm someone, least of all her “But I just try and think about hoould feel to learn that so so horrendous Even if I hadn’t done it, it was still soht to feel frustrated”

“She’s doing exactly what all of our ex-wives and girlfriends did to us,” Ethan said “Shit gets hard and she’s gone!”

I had no idea Ethan felt the way he did Just a couple of weeks prior he was leading the search party, suddenly, he felt so jaded Still, I knew that the situation with Jordan was different, and I could feel in my heart that we hadn’t seen the last of our blond beauty I just had to find her I just had to speak to her, heart-to-heart, and show her my true self and I knew she would come back home

“We can’t just replace her, Ethan That’s not what any of us want, you included,” I said