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It was al

Usually I didn’t mind She was harmless and, honestly, we’d all been down those rabbit holes in a bookstore It just wasn’t all that convenient when I had a needy newborn in the back room

I locked the door to the store, slid the bolt across, and flipped the sign to say ere closed If Seb had never held a baby before, there was sure as hell no way he knehat to do with one, so God only kneas going on in there

I grabbed h to the staff room with h the door made me stop

Seb was standing in theher a bottle

In case you didn’t hear that explosion, it was just my ovaries

No big deal

One day, I nize it was the straw that broke the camel’s back The one that meant I ell and truly fucked That, despite allto be done here

I did have feelings for Sebastian I needed to figure out what they were, where they’d cos that needed closure or if they were ones that didn’t want anything of the sort

Because watching hiripped hold of le beat

“Lookin’ good, baller”

He jerked his head up, a s at his lips as he rocked her “Shh You’ll disturb her”

Oh, my heart

My ovaries

My womb

All of it

It was all… poof

“Um,” I said softly “Are you okay?”

“I don’t know,” he whispered “I think she’s asleep, but Google said I had to burp her”

I touchedmy cup on the coffee table “You fed her?”

“Yeah, she wouldn’t settle, so I had to Google” He pulled the bottle from her mouth slowly and handed it to me “She’s not wet, she hasn’t shit, and I think she’s too young for teeth Yeah?”

“Not even close,” I confir a smile

“So I figured she was hungry I found a bottle in the fridge, so I put it in hot water like it said and checked the teht have been a little cold, but I didn’t want to hurt her”

“You could have just cootten me Mrs Holland would have come back”

“No, it’s fine We figured it out, right, Teegs?”