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Lia to be mine”

“We both did, but there’s so you need to think about If you walk away, I’ive s to you I couldn’t spendI’d never be able to make her whole”

“I’ to leave you with half a woman, Macen But I don’t see—”

“Then open your eyes Raine is the one we’ve always needed,” Hammer insisted “We not only have the chance to fix her, but us You know it as well as I do Goddamn it, surely you can feel it somewhere in there, just like I can” Lia, and Ha her again? Ever?”

Liam’s face twisted up as he tried to hold back “No I love her too much to leave her half empty”

“Then don’t”

After a long silence, Liam drew in a deep breath “It could be worse, I suppose I’ll have to be grateful that she didn’t fall in love with a complete asshole like Beck”

Hahed in relief Even Liam cracked a wry smile

“I want you to know that earlier today, I didn’t just pull that question out ofaround in my head for days I had to know if she would have been happy if she’d been pregnant” Hah his hair “Didn’t you want to know?”

“I was too afraid I wouldn’t like the answer,” Liam confessed

“What if you’d gotten her pregnant? Would you have asked then?”

Liam reared back “Of course I’d want to know if she would be all right…” He sighed, giving Harin “You sly bastard”

“You see, I had to know, not for an ego stroke For her And she gave us the honesty we asked for She’s blown me aith how far she’s come” Hammer couldn’t conceal his pride

“That she has But today came with a price I hadn’t expected”

“We couldn’t shy away fro We just weren’t fully prepared for the fallout,” Ha Raine aside and asking her feelings about being pregnant But in ether No matter what she felt, it affected us both”