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“Fight against? I don’t understand”

“He’d shut his where no one could touch the in the neonatal intensive-care unit, staring at her in her incubator No emotion on his face, not even a flicker I knew then that she would need help—they both would

“Looking after Ruby helpedBree It would have helped hi sick for that first month of her life, it only served to push him further away”

“I still can’t understand how he did that,” Alexis said, shaking her head

She’d seen photos of Ruby in the NICU They’d raised every protective instinct in her body She’d wanted to reach right into the pictures and cuddle the precious baby back to health How could Raoul not have felt the sahter?

“He’s a strong et to be too much, even for someone like Raoul,” Catherine said “Bree’s father was like that, too I’th the sah the years, just as I know Bree had fights with Raoul, over the way that both ht make them vulnerable”

Ruby had stopped playing and had gotten to her feet and walked over to her grandmother who happily lifted her onto her lap

“The sad thing is, he doesn’t even realize what he’s been ”

“Whatever good I ht have done has been destroyed now,” Alexis said ruefully

“Maybe, maybe not I think he needs a bit of tis”

“Well, if, as you say, he’s looking for a new nanny, thenout”