Chapter 0408

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“I intend to make up for it,” he whispered, his grip tightening on my hand ever so slightly. “For all of it.”

My heart fluttered at his touch, and I looked up to see those green eyes staring down at me, filled with the same intensity as when he had been holding our daughter. “Noah…”

“Let me take you on a date this weekend,” he said suddenly. “Just the two of us. I’ll take you out to a nice. restaurant, somewhere fan

We can talk, really talk, without any distractions.”

The idea both thrilled and terrified me. We hadn’t had that in so long–maybe never. That… chance to really talk. To date. To act like a real couple. And talking… I guess we needed that now more than ever.

“I… I think that would be nice,” I said finally, offering him a small smile.

Noah’s face lit up brighter than the sunset, and for a moment, I was transported back to our early days together as teenagers. The urge to kiss him was overwhelming, but I held myself back, settling instead for leaning up on my tiptoes and giving him a quick peck on the cheek.

contact of lips against buttery warm skin sent a jolt through me, and clearly did the same for him, if

safely.” I murmured,

for a moment longer before he got into his car. I watched as he drove away, the tail lights disappearing into the growing

of my nightly routine–feeding Melody, putting her to bed, taking

my thoughts kept circling back

WhiteRabbit.

been behind the contraceptive pills had been nagging at me for weeks. Now, with everything that had


for certain. I couldn’t sleep until

unable to resist any longer, I pulled out my phone and sent a message to WhiteRabbit, hitting

I saw on the news?” I frowned, my fingers hovering over the keyboard. This wasn’t the reaction I had expected.

know anything about a Zoe. Someone else

make sense. If it wasn’t Zoe, then who? And why would they go to such engths to keep me from having

asked. “Who was supplying

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