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Half a block fro swiped a card at a locked gate to enter

He lived there? He’d never hborhood Not that it mattered, really

Just seemeda little too personal

“Why not just have me meet you at your place so you didn’t have to pack up the bikes?” she asked when they stopped together

“Because I don’t intend to take you tosideways to look at her “Correct ot the impression you’d think that too personal”

He wasn’t wrong

She was grateful that he was sensitive enough to have picked up on that

And acted upon it, too

Maybe it wouldn’t be completely foolish to relax a little bit

Maybe

Chapter Eleven

The wo his baby was far too unique to live life alone So, so mate Okay, he could see that he’d at least like a shot at perhaps being that someonebut also understood that Amelia didn’t want a partner

He even understood why

It just didn’t seeht For her, more than anyone She took on so much by herself Because she feared her inability to love in a healthy way As Craig had the thought, he knew that just because so, life still let it happen Like a child with a leuke dead of an aneurys her young son orphaned and vulnerable to the father who’d never wanted hi her entire life in love with a man married to another family

A father walking out on his high school sweetheart and their two infants, and throwing away his second chance when one of the daughters contacted him almost two decades later