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Оглавление“I’m willing to have you get to know our son,” Sofia said.
“But I don’t want to include anyone else in that right now,” she continued. “Meeting his dad is big enough without complicating that. And that includes your family.”
“So your whole family kept the secret?” he asked, a tinge of bitterness in his voice.
They had, and saying it out loud made it sound worse somehow. They’d all agreed that keeping the secret would be best for the child.
“Ben, I’ve been the center of Jack’s world for his entire life,” she said, her voice quivering with emotion. “This isn’t about our families. Not yet, at least.”
“Agreed,” he said. “This should be about you and me.”
Just about the two of them…well, the three of them now.
“We tried that once,” she said past a lump in her throat. “It didn’t work too well.”
“Yeah.” His voice was low and deep, and she suddenly wished she could lean into his strong shoulder, smell that old scent of leather and cologne and feel loved again. “Anyway, I’ll see you tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow,” she repeated. And for the next two weeks, she thought.
