Karen Rose - Their Child?

“Yes.”

“No more. When he goes back to school, he’s going as a Bravo.”

“Yes. I’ll see to it.”

“You bet you will.” He looked at her as if he wouldn’t trust her to pass him the salt at the dinner table.

Her temper flared again. She doused it, suggesting carefully, “And for now, maybe we should just take it one day at a time. Just get through the summer and not worry about all the rest of it until we have to.”

He sat forward. “You’re saying you’ll do it. You’ll give me what I want. Tomorrow, you and Brody will move in here, with me.”

“Yes.”

His eyes darkened—with triumph and something more…

Something that brought a tiny, valiant flame of hope rising to flicker within her.

Was it possible?

Could he, just maybe, want more from her than her support while he got to know his son? Deep down, did he have some faint intention of trying to make it work between them, after all? Did he want her with him, at his house, at least a little bit for her own sake?

She wondered—and then she put that tiny hope away. It didn’t matter. Not right then. Right then, her lies and her betrayals stood high as a fortress wall, thick and impossible to scale, between them. He didn’t trust her—with valid reason. He had disconnected from her. And any dreams she might have finally admitted to having about the two of them…

Well, this didn’t look like a situation where dreams were all that likely to come true.

What mattered now was that Tucker and Brody should have their time together; her job would be to do all she could to make that happen.

She said, “We’ll move in tomorrow.”

“All right, then,” he agreed. “Let’s get through the summer. We’ll worry about the rest of it when fall comes around.”

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