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Zeke walked into the kitchen, dressed in the sahtly dah Friday he shaved religiously He was a cop And the short hair and clean jawline were part of the look But on the weekends he took a break from the razor

He looked so handso of a new life for theo to breakfast in front of the whole town To basically declare, Mio back to their lives, business as usual

Except, then nothing would have changed

He poured hi appreciative sip “So, what about bre

akfast?”

There was no easy way to say it, so she just blurted it out “I know about your dad”

He froze “What do you know about him?”

“I know that he’s been in contact with you And that…you’ve beenfor you tell me But you haven’t said a word to me Not one damn word, Zeke”

“It…he doesn’t have anything to do with us, Mimi”

She tried to pick her jaw off the ground “Are you kidding me? He’s your father What do youthat has to do with you, has to do with hteen years and in all that time you’ve never once spoken about him You’ve barely told me about the accident, and, baby, that’s just not normal”

He shoved a hand through his hair “I know you think I’ve repressed sos that need to come out before I can coical bullshit like that, but believe me, I’m perfectly fine” His dark eyes narrowed “Is this what the past year has been about?” He shook his head incredulously “I thought you were secretly pissed because I spent too much time at work or some other crap like that”

Crap like that She took a deep breath and tried to get control of herself This wasn’t about her It was about him

“Why didn’t you just tell o?” he continued “Why didn’t you just say, ‘Hey, Zeke, did your asshole dad call you?’ Because guess what? I would have said, ‘Yeah, he did’ Case closed and we could have saved ourselves a whole lot of ”

“Because I didn’t know a year ago I only found out a couple of o and I wanted you to tell me,” she said

“Okay, so now you know”