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“I thought you ht be,” she smirks as she blinks up at me

Twistinga bold proclamation “You know…I do think they lend a bit of whiood for Charlie to be exposed to all types of styles, right?”

Pepper snorts and steps away fro flowerpots where she moves the vines and pinches off a few dead flowers I turn to hter to me

“She’s been such a good girl this ,” she tells me as I settle Charlie into the crook of my arm

Her eyes widen slightly as she recognizes nize htly upward More than anything, I can see the sht that has come on because she’s happy to see her daddy

“How’s y voice as I rub les and the smile fully forms on her mouth

And fuck…nothing better in this world than having your child smile at you

I bounce slightly on irl? Maybe to the park or a stroll around the ’hood? We’ll ask that other pretty girl playing around with the pink pigs if she wants to go with us, what do you think? Then I’ll have the two prettiest girls in the world flanking me”

I turn to look at Pepper to see if I’hter, but she’s not looking at us Instead, she’s looking at so over my shoulder and the expression on her face puts uard

“Legend,” Pepper says in a warning tone

I turn quickly around and gape as Lida cohbor’s yard tobut rather probably parked her car down the street and cut through

And she’s not casually , purposeful strides—her face twisted in anger

My instincts go into protection hter I lower my voice to a murmur “Take Charlie and Lucy inside Lock the doors and call the police”