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I grab Clover’s carrier, and we leave the apartment.
Damn, what if she doesn’t take me back? Fuck that. I won her once. I can do it a second time. I won’t quit trying until Adeline’s back where she belongs.
When we park outside the middle school, I’m more nervous than I was before the championship game last year.
“I’ve got Clover. You go get in,” Marge says.
I run up to the doors, press the button, and tap my foot.
“Hello, how can I help you?” Shaylene answers.
“I’m here to see Adeline Morgan,” I say.
She buzzes me in, and I go straight into the office.
“You know I’m not letting you in, Mr. Siska. Elijah.” Shaylene jots something on a piece of paper and waves for him to come over. “Give Miss Morgan this note.”
“No!” I put my hand over the note.
In the meantime, Adeline’s mom and Clover get buzzed in.
“Please, I really want to surprise her.” I give Shaylene my best pleading face.
“I cannot let you through those doors.”
I take everything out of my pockets and place it on the counter. My keys, gum, wallet. “You want me to strip? I will.” I grab the hem of my shirt.
“Oh jeez,” she says. “Please don’t.”
“Please do,” another woman farther back in the office says.
“Let him in, Shaylene. He wants to confess his love to her,” Adeline’s mom says, coming up to my side.
Vic, the security guard, comes in, and I point at him. “He can walk me the entire way. I’ll do anything. Please.”
“Let him through,” Elijah says, and I fist bump him.
“Oh, for heaven’s sake.” Shaylene reaches under her desk and presses the button for the doors into the school.
I run to grab the door, then turn around. “Where is her room?”
“I’ll show you.” Vic comes alongside me. “Does baby want to come too?”
Adeline’s mom holds the carrier to me, but I grab it and take Marge’s arm. “You got me here. You have to see how this ends.”
She smiles at me. I think I earned some brownie points there.
“Vic, you better keep your eye out,” Shaylene calls.
As we walk the halls, Clover’s eyes flutter open, and she smiles up at me as though she knows Daddy finally came to his senses. I just hope Mommy still loves me.
Chapter29
Adeline
“Please sit down, Lucy.”
Today has been a constant challenge, getting the students to be quiet and stop talking or standing up from their desks when they’re supposed to be working.
