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“Rat bastard,” she whispered before tucking her head beneath my chin

“He was The biggest,” I confirmed as I carried her with one ar to love you for teaching her that,” I said to Jude jokingly

“Oh God,” Jude said in all seriousness I pulled his hand toHe let out a sigh of relief

I would need to remember that Jude didn’t understand how families worked

But if I had anything to say about it, he would soon enough

Epilogue

Nikolai

One Year Later

I never lost focus

Never

That wasn’t to say there hadn’t been a couple of close calls, though, and they all involved one person

Jude