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After the police had arrived and questioned us, Tate and I had taken Matty to the hospital to be checked out and then we’d gone to a ht Tate and I hadn’t spoken much as I’d held him in my arms and he’d held Matty in his as Matty had slept We hadn’t needed to say anything Because we’d both been aware of how close we’d co each other and our son

The next day I’d learned more about what had driven Buck to seek us out and when I’d had Daisy investigate Jenna DuCane, I’d been led to her father, Magnus, a Texas Ranger Tate had been scared to reach out to Matty’s randfather, but he’d known it needed to be done His biggest fear had been that the randson We’d been back in Seattle at that point and Matty had been undergoing his second round of chenus so I could try to feel him out What I’d found was a devastated, broken hter and three-year-old grandson for two years He hadn’t known about Buck and Denny and it was hter was likely dead based on Buck’s comments to Tate in the barn

At only forty years old, Magnus DuCane was still a young ed hinificantly and I’d understood the raw pain he’d been enduring both in the two years he’d been searching for her and the day I’d told hi that had caused the tiniest spark of hope to flare in the randson was alive I’d spoken with Tate that night on the phone and had explained what Magnus had been going through and it had been his idea to bring the man home with me so he could see Matty for himself

Three weeks later and Magnus was still here

We’d taken our tih he’d understood that the randfather, he hadn’t asked too many questions about his nus would be the only one who could tell hinus, but his fear that Magnus would try to take Matty away fronus had pulled us both aside one day when Matty had been asleep in his hospital bed and thanked us for giving hione on to thank Tate for saving Matty’s life and he’d told him that he could think of no two better parents to raise Matty His only ask was that he could still be included in Matty’s life After that, Magnus had been enfolded into our little faainst Matty’s persistent request asking him to stay

Matty’s second round of cheh he’d been more worn out this ti in bed There’d been soled with the inevitable pain that ca with his treatood support system for him His recovery from the events of that terrible day in the barn had been slow and he’d been plagued with nighth the trauma and expected that Matty would eventually completely recover There’d been soet rid of any potential links to his organization, but between Daisy uys to give all of us round the clock protection, I knew Matty and Tate were safe And Matty had found hiuard in Mav who spent nearly every day at the hospital stationed outside of Matty’s rooave up his post hen he was forced to get some sleep

Tate and I hadn’t started the process of looking for a house in Seattle yet since we spent soup residence at the saotten Tate set up in for the first round of Matty’s che for a job since Matty’s treated to talk Tate into taking a photography course so that he’d be able to spend some time outside the hospital and after much reluctance, he’d finally consented to try it and had ulti back in his life that had always brought hi Tate to one day pursue his passion as a career, I’d also surprised him with an expensive camera that his instructor had recommended