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Which brought her back around to Craig Haruy One whovalid—if way too abstract for her—and going about it in the proper way as defined by the contracts they’d signed

Just because she’d never iined this particular scenario when she’d considered the stipulations to which she’d agreed didn’tOr even inappropriate She’d talked to Tanya, too She wasn’t legally obligated to ht to ask

He could check to see that the baby she had ell, and recheck within reasonable tiht to request contact with the child She didn’t have to grant that, either She just couldn’t stop hi, unless he harassed her

Botto Hareneric infor of the baby she carried

It was all in there

And knowing it all, even with Craig Harmon’s recent communication, she would have still chosen the Parent Portal and signed the contracts While she had ical component of her child, she was kind of curious to meet him He couldn’t have her child, but her heart definitely went out to hi his situation with his son And her respect for hiive up when it ca for those he cared about

Soie And her top priority these days She was going to do whatever it took to care for her sements to bank cord blood And had purchased all of the necessary iteie had hired someone to install the cupboard and door latches in both their homes

Ae Saturday afternoon, half an hour before she was due to see Craig

Angie was having lunch at hoolf She’d had awith a lucrative boutique to be the exclusive carrier of Feel Good apparel there

“Hey, when’s that guy co to install the baby-safety iteie was telling Mo Harmon, she didn’t want to know She hadn’t asked her sister not to say anything, but hoped she wouldn’t Their ie and Amelia fed off her emotions

At least, that was the theory One of ht after breaking up with Mike

“The first Saturday in February,” Angie said So teeks away “I just left Moood,” she continued “And no bottles I checked all the usual places and anywhere else I could think of”

A, as well Not in a while, though Duane had been sober for several years Since that last horrible tiie

Her little sister had called her that awful day, but she’d blown her off Figuring Angie’s tears were just more of the drama from which she’d chosen to escape Mike’s rhetoric The whole “her choosing to escape the draood to her at the tis like that of her, had really just been one of the many ways in which he’d isolated her from everyone else in her life she’d ever loved

So he could have it all Have all of her Thankfully she’d wised up before he’d consumed her completely