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Dane watched as Lucy hugged their son

Ryan wasn’t so bad to live with, but Dane did insist he spent the weekends with Lucy and Lewis

He nodded at the man who’d fallen in love with Lucy Dane had wanted to hate hiot back to Greater Falls

The start of his return hadn’t gone well He came back with a plan, a course of reco all that he lost had been too much

Each day, he had to see everything he’d given up All that he had lost Dane knew he’d never been a good person

Until it happened, he’d been a selfish, manipulative asshole He had only seen what he wanted Not cared what others had thought

“Hey,” Lucy said

“Hey,” he said, offering her a smile

The person he’d hurt the ht here He shouldn’t have married her

Lucy deserved a good man Back then, he’d known she was a ray of sunshine The kind of wo woain He’d nearly broken this woman There was a time he had her, but he had well and truly lost her He saw the way she ith Lewis It was the sa

“How is Ryan?” Lucy asked

“He’s a good kid Got a deadbeat for a dad Hopefully, I can show him the error of that asshole’s ways,” Dane said

Lucy chuckled “You’re not a deadbeat, Dane”

“You and I both know I have no right to call our childrenyou right?”

“Yes He’s a good man, Dane”

He hated that Leas everything he wasn’t Lewis had fallen in love with a woman who had not one, but three kids with a man Dane couldn’t have done that

“Good If he … you know, if you’re ever in trouble Call me”

Lucy sighed “Are you okay?”

“Fine”

“You seem different”

He laughed “Is that because I’ the wo a complete waste of space?”

Lucy sighed “Stop it”