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Her eyes narrowed

“Okay, I figure I owe you at least that, if not more, for what you did for me today”

“Me? I didn’t do anything”

“You were there for me” He walked over to where she sat on the sofa and took a seat right next to her Taking the remote, he searched for a classicala piano dominant tune

After a fewthe sex of the baby for the first time”

“Were you alone when you saw it?” he asked

“Yes My faram”

“That kind of thing bonds the parents together,” he said

“So I gathered” She inched away fro”

He had brought up the bonding on purpose He intended to lead into what he really needed to say

“We did bond over the baby, but that didn’t change the way either one of us felt about each other I told you I would like to believe I loved her, but after all this time and much reflection, I know I didn’t love her as much as I could love a woman” He wouldn’t say how he knew that He knew because he could love Hazel ten tih to marry her and have a family, but at some point, it would have become clear that she wasn’t the one for ht woman would have been”

“Would you have stayed in the e?”

“With children involved? Yes Annabel was a good person Honest, full of integrity There would have been no good reason to leave her”

“Other than not being happy,” Hazel said

“I would have been happy enough with her It’s not like she made me miserable, nor do I think she ever would have” There were different degrees of happiness People could find great joy even if theyas there was loyal coe could work