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The bright light coming through my window makes me open my eyes. Instead of getting up

immediately, I just stay in bed for a while as I rub my belly and feel my baby move inside me.

I look at the calendar on my bedside table and realize that today I just hit the sixth–month

milestone. It’s scary to have a baby. The whole journey is filled with uncertainty. I always make

sure to thank God each time I pass a milestone with my baby, knowing not all babies get to be

born.

After saying a small thank–you prayer, I get up and move downstairs. I could always shower later,

but right now I am hungry. With everything that happened yesterday, I forgot to eat.

Thinking about yesterday brings me to what happened with Rowan. I still can’t believe that I let

him kiss me or that I actually enjoyed it.

It bugs me so much that I wanted more. I wanted him to deepen the kiss. I wanted him to take it

further. I can blame it on the hormones, but we all know that I’d be lying to myself.

Rowan hurt me so much. The fact that I wanted him yesterday makes me hate myself just a little

bit. I promised myself to move on, yet there I was making out with him in my living room.

I want to believe that Rowan has changed, but I just can’t. Even if, by some miracle, he has, don’t

you think it’s a little too late for us? Too much has already happened for us to make something out

of the mess he created.

Taking out the ingredients for breakfast, I get to work. No matter what I try, I still can’t stop

thinking about the

kiss. For heaven’s sake, why the hell did this kiss affect me so much? I

just don’t fucking get it, honestly.

could erase the feel of his lips on

got you so frustrated?” Calvin’s voice startles me so much that I let go of the

holding.

out of me,”

beating heart.

us, given Gunner and Noah didn’t really

said boys to find them munching on the cookies

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a little bit lost

grin slips from his face. “Are you still thinking about what

It was a lie, but he didn’t need to know that

different thing.

for breakfast, mom?” Noah

up” I

the air. “I love fry–ups; it’s like

breakfast food at once.”

So happy that he is happy. I’m hoping that one day Emma will see the error of her ways and mend her fences with

done?” Noah asks.

yet. Just a few more minutes, and I’ll be done. Why don’t you go wait in the living room

I finish up?”

say at the same time, before rushing to the

and proceeds to

breakfast when we should have given you more time to yourself. It’s just that

they wanted your

laugh at that. It’s not that Calvin was a bad cook. He just didn’t make

mine.

some over anyway, so

him as I get back to frying the

are you holding up, all things considered?” I ask

that now everyone knows about

a dirty secret. After my

two of

a family. Gunner deserves

Travis and Kate weren’t people worth knowing, but they’d treated

for Gunner

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