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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

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

holding.

you scared the living day lights out of me,” I

beating heart.

given Gunner and Noah didn’t

find them munching on

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was just a

face. “Are you still thinking about

he didn’t need to know that

different thing.

making for breakfast,

up”

air. “I love fry–ups; it’s like

breakfast food at once.”

smile at him. 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 Gunner before

you almost done?” Noah asks. “I’m so

be done. Why don’t you go wait

I finish up?”

say at the same time,

me and proceeds to clean up the mess I’d made. “Sorry I

breakfast when we should have given you more time to

they wanted your

not that Calvin was a bad cook. He

mine.

and brought some over anyway,

I get back to frying the

all things considered?” I

now everyone knows about Gunner. He’s an amazing

secret. After my

I didn’t mind it being just the two of us, but I knew it was unfair

mother had a family. Gunner deserves to know his uncle and

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

was safe for Gunner to

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