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Larkin turned to Darian “Daddy, I really…”

Darian shook his head “We just changed the color in your playroo to stay that way for a while”

Larkin’s bottom lip pushed out into a pout

Darian grinned and tapped her lip with a finger “You’re adorable, and I love you, but it won’t work”

Larkin’s shoulders slumped

Brylee grabbed ahold of Larkin’s hand “I think a bed would look great right here in front of the ”

Larkin tilted her head to the side “A white metal one or antique brass”

“Yes!” Brylee laughed

“She’ll need a dollhouse,” Larkin suggested

“And books,” Brylee said as she moved around the room

“I’ve got a fehite bookcases co tomorrow,” Patrick said as he stood back with his hands in his pockets and let the girls design the room

He , planning to order everything that night and have it delivered the next day He wasn’t worried about not getting the roo happen, and he had plenty of that

Later that night, he lay in bed as the ih his mind Even with her hair cut short, uneven, and choppy, she was still one of the cutest things he’d ever seen

His new irl of the shadows that darkened her beautiful blue eyes He wanted to be the person who made her smile every day, made her feel safe, and look forward to the future

He’d never even talked to the girl, but he was already half in love with her As crazy as it sounded, he knew she was the one he’d been waiting for, and he would do whatever it took to get her away from that bastard of a father of hers and into his home