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Chapter Thirteen

AMARA ROLLED UP TO THE stop sign and heaved a heavy sigh before looking back at Haenerally was during car rides It was always hard to leave him with someone else, no h

The first hints of pink and gold touched the sky and clouds, sunset imminent She still had plenty of tiht

Her black dress was silossy black patent pu too h for a dinner at a place as nice as the Forsythia

As much as she dreaded what Quint had to say at the dinner, she didn’t want to seem out of place or under-dressed

As Amara pulled up to her es in Ha nothing, she made her way quietly around to unstrap the car seat carrier and gently lift hih her departure

Raneesha opened the glass-paned front door, s broadly as she usually did While her mother’s smile usually put Ae would be if the agreement she had with Quint was discovered, or if she slipped up

Amara had practiced her story a few ti with a potential shipping representative to secure low rates for the far It wasn’t unreasonable that such an i would be held at the Forsythia

“Hey, baby” Raneesha’s voice was hushed, but her shter lad you called It’s been too long since little Hampton has visited Grandma”

Amara returned the smile as well as she could “What? Two days? Ha!”

“Two days too many,” Raneesha countered

“You only have Sundays off, and you’ve been over at my place after work how many times this week?”

Raneesha leaned down and took Ha softly in satisfaction and pride “Aonna be a real ladies rows up, I bet”

Amara cleared her throat softly and motioned with her head toward the house “Can we head on in? The traffic’s getting kinda loud, and I don’t want to wake hioodbye to those beautiful baby blue eyes”