Chapter 0829

“I was thinking we could grab some vanilla ice cream and sit somewhere to talk. Sound good?”

“Perfect.”

We stopped by an ice cream shop and bought a liter each.

As expected, she devoured hers.

I watched her for a moment before taking a deep breath.

“Mary… there’s something I want to talk to you about.”

She looked up, concerned. “What is it?”

“I know we’re getting married soon, and Serene will have my last name. But I’ve been thinking a lot about what I proposed to you….”

“What do you mean?”

“About being Serenity’s father.”

She froze, her face unreadable. “Are you… backing out?”

“No! How could you even think that?”

“Then why bring it up?”

I hesitated. “Because today, I had a terrible nightmare…”

“What did you dream?”

“That I died.”

She gasped. “What?!”

“Yeah… It felt so real. Everything about it–it was like living a normal day, but it ended with me dying. It left me with this awful feeling, Mary. That’s why I needed to talk to you.”

me, Peter…”

more scared than you

“Why?”

if something happens to me, you and Serenity are my responsibility. Do you really think

it was just a nightmare.”

But it felt real.”

running a hand through

weighing on me all day. If I ever died. I’d want you to move on. I’d want you to keep living, to surround yourself with people who love you. I wouldn’t want you to be alone. I wouldn’t want you to

grip

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to live your life to the fullest. And now that we know we’re having a girl, we need to make

hesitated, then added carefully,

honest. We can’t hide the trull

Maximus has to find out, and I don’t

our daughter is born, she needs to know who her real father is. You can’t

one who didn’t want

I said. But at least give him the choice. If he wants nothing to do with her, that’s his decision. But he needs to have

Maximus is about to marry Alexia, and that woman hates

I also know she’s pregnant

stiffened at

take responsibility for all his actions–whether he was

“I was thinking… maybe we

Her eyes widened.

hadn’t expected

she didn’t know was that I had already asked Marcus to buy a

Serenity to go to Solaria–the place she had once

serious?” she asked

work from anywhere. Besides, Marcus lives in Coravela now. We could find a place nearby and settle there. It would be good for us. You’d be home. And Serene could grow up in a healthier environment than

looked at me like I had

worrying me

gazing at

Serenity is

out, tucking a curl behind her ear.

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