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“Please don’t leave me Give me another chance I’ll fix this” He fell to his knees in front of ainst hi I can say to ive me the chance to try”

“You can’t fucking make this better You cheated on me! You had sex with soan Hawthorn Of all the people on the planet, you had to go and screw her” Tears spilled unchecked downair “And now you tellto be a father with that slut?”

“I’ lost his own fight with his tears But if he touchedstupid I would hit hi throat

I loved him so much, but at that moment, I hated him more

“You don’t even know that for sure,” I shouted “You don’t know if you’re going to be a father But there’s a chance, and you can’t deny it You stole this from me too, Luca I was supposed to conancy test and tell you that you were going to be a daddy I was the one as supposed to give you a houseful of babies Me Not her And you…stole…that…fro my heart from my chest

It fell between us, and the furious ocean water washed it away

It was gone

My heart had never really belonged to me anyway It had always been Luca’s But now, it was no one’s

Not even mine

Chapter 25

Luca

I was fooling an would be the hardest thing I ever did I’d done so compared this fuckup

I’d texted Aunt Eo to my parents’ house for a conference call so I could tell all three of the I was too much of a chickenshit to be able to retell the same story three different times I’d sweat bullets when I’d made the call

The silence on their end after I told the had made me want to vomit I didn’t knohat to say or do to make it end, but after a fen-out moments, Aunt Emmie was the one to break the silence

“What do you want nation in her voice, along with the banked anger and disappointment in me But she was in cleanup in with That, and I was sure Mo My aunt was the only other person who could deal with him when he was like that, other than my sister, and there was no way I wanted to tell Lucy until I absolutely had to