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She seemed able to calentle touch I never saw Lauren mistreat them, but the fact that she was so easily ready to take their lives leads me to believe that maybe there was a lot I’d missed

As a father, I should be cautious, but I know in my heart that she would never mistreat the kids that she’d risked her life for And besides, she loves , she’d die before she’d hurt me

Da at her just as we reached the line to see that see She turned with a sirl, damn How the hell had I missed that before?

Because I didn’t allowat me like that?”

“You’re beautiful!” I pushed a lock of her long hair back behind her ear and grinned at her I hed more in the last few hours than I have all month

The girls were perfect angels as aited in line Of course, Jenny and I had to entertain the on Santa’s lap That’s how I ended up with an albu babies in their first-ever Xmas pictures

I realized as we got ready to leave that the evening had been et flustered when the girls acted up the way their mother used to She was patient and always ready with a s out of the funk they’d been in for a while after their mother left

Speaking of which, I have amazed myself with the ease hich I’ve been able to put her out of ranted full custody of irls, it’s like she was just another phase of my life that I needed to put behind me

Nohen I look at Jenny, there’s no layer of guilt over what I’irls in, and I helped her into the passenger seat and belted her in sans the sassy attitude this time

“You haven’t eaten, and neither have I” I looked back at E their little heads and fighting sleep “These two are in no condition to sit and watch us eat, so what say we go home, order in, and have that talk?”

“But, I thought you were going to help me with my homework Mr Masters, you promised” She batted her lashes at eteyes and that voice, ell on the way to getting her fucked