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“Just tell et you the cash You can do whatever the fuck you want You always do”

“That’s it?” she asked between shudders and hiccups

“You tell me”

But she didn’t say another word Bobbi had left hie like an idiot and he hadn’t laid eyes on her until nearly a month later when she’d shown up at his place with the unfortunate Jane Lawson beneath him

His cell phone buzzed Shane exhaled and retrieved it from the bathroom where he’d left it The cabinet door beneath the sink was open, the garbage tipped over and he was about to toss the First Alert packaging back inside but so stopped him

He glanced at his cell Ur late U all right?

The text was fro in fact that the words blurred So long that Pia began to whine, sensing her master’s distress

“I’ht”

Shane shoved the pregnancy stick back into the packaging, stuffed it into his jeans and grabbed his cell

He hoped he could keep his shit together, because at thebeneath the surface He needed to keep his cool and let her come to him He didn’t want to think about the past or where her head was at in the now

Maybe she didn’t his kids Or anyone’s kids for thatto him Maybe, maybe, maybe

There was nothing final and solid in, ht But he had to hold on and keep his tes would turn out the way they were supposed to Because without it, at this point, Shane had nothing else

Chapter Twenty-six

“Where’s Gerald?”

Bobbi set theroom table and rested her hand on her father’s shoulder She tried to keep the sigh from her voice but wasn’t all that sure she succeeded “I don’t know, daddy I’ it with his lovely mother”