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“Old ave him a little squeeze “You aren’t an old e if that’s what you want me to call you”

His s me, I won’t complain”

Her gaze searched his “For the rest of the weekend, right?”

“Right,” Matthew agreed, but suddenly found it difficult to keep his smile in place “For the next three days, I’m all yours”

Then he’d fly back to Meht, then he and Carrie would drive back to Boston because the little girl was terrified of the thought of getting on a plane, and he hadn’t forced the issue

Back to trying to figure out life without Robert and Carolyn

Back to hihter in a way that wouldn’t disappoint them, which seemed impossible for a sworn bachelor who still couldn’t even put Carrie’s hair up withouthandfuls of it from the bun

Too bad the position in Memphis hadn’t worked out so his fauide hi all wrong tiain

What did he know about raising a kid?

Nothing His friends had been foolish leaving Carrie’s upbringing to him Robert had known Matthew had no plans to marry or have children Truly, they couldn’t have chosen a worse guardian for Carrie

“Your hand is getting tight again,” Natalie warned

He loosened his hold “Sorry”

“Want to talk about whatever keeps bothering you?”

He couldn’t blaoback to places he didn’t need to let his brain go

“It’s not i about Robert and Carolyn was i to handle fatherhood was important Part of hi out to her, to tell her what a screw-up step-in parent he’d been so far and that he wished he could give Carrie to a couple who knehat they were doing so the kid wouldn’t turn outhis best friends, and his failed parenthood, weren’t decent conversation for a three-day affair