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"It looks fit for a prince," Candace said "That little guy is going to be so spoiled"

"No he isn't," I said and pouted "We're going to raise hiht"

"I know," Candace said "You till be great parents I' to spoil the hell out of him, however!"

I laughed and hugged the two of them

"I hate to see you go," I said and walked them to the front door

When I waved goodbye as the lireat friends to go through this with me

The nextin the city a few days a week but spending er each day, ht possible Dana gave me her maternity clothes and I was happy to spendof the day Leif arrived and Luke and I learned how to be parents I expected it would be a hectic time for the first month as we adjusted to new parenthood, but luckily, reed to come and stay with us and help out for the first feeeks

We were going to takeback and forth between LA and New York that we kept putting it off and putting it off Finally, our ister for class when I was in my 36th week at the latest

With that settled, I tried to spend the nextnancy

Chapter Twenty-Four

Luke

The next fewresearch for her dissertation, and getting everything ready for the baby to arrive in May andto find a partner to replace Seneca

I still felt bad that Seneca turned us down, but life had to go on I kept working away, approaching one after another possible tech coet on board with Astra I was starting to lose hope, because both K&L Investments and Broadured there had to be someone out there with the saet in on the ground level in the space business While it was early days when it caot in early and were smart would be the leaders in the future

I wanted to be one of those leaders and kneould mean a lot of hard work at the start

I lived for this and so I never lost hope