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“What if you moved?”
“No,” she said quickly.
“One of us is going to have to compromise at some point.”
“I won’t on that.”
I pressed my lips together. I loved my place too. And I got that hers represented the life she’d built with another man. But when it came to gummy bear, I was quickly figuring out there wasn’t much I wouldn’t do for her.
“We could try living together.”
Her gaze snapped to mine. “Are you insane?”
A little. Except the idea pleased me. The location, not so much.
“We will right after she’s born. I’ll have to research how long, but that’s non-negotiable.”
“That mojo you use on a jury won’t work with me,” she huffed. “Didn’t you just say we’d both have to compromise?”
“You haven’t yet.”
“Neither have you.”
“I haven’t heard a single suggestion come out of your mouth.”
She pushed to her feet. “I can’t do this.”
“You’re going to have to,” I called after her. “We aren’t leaving this place without a plan.”
The door slammed in response.
The woman could be vulnerable one minute and vicious the next. But I’d just found some common ground, and we could work with that. Neither of us wanted to be with gummy bear only 50 percent of the time. So that was where we’d start.
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Marlow
I sankdown on the sand and pulled Blake between my legs.
“This is exactly what I pictured.” I ruffled his hair. “When I was a kid, I always begged Dad to take us to the beach. He never would. At some point, I figured it was because of her.”
He ran his fingers through the sugary powder.
“That made me so angry. I couldn’t understand.” I picked up a shell and held it out to him. “Now, I do. All too well.”
He examined the shell. Ran his fingers over the smooth surface.
“Did you know if you put it up to your ear, you can hear the ocean?”
“How.”
I pressed the small slit up to his ear. He covered my hand with his and laughed. He had no idea what we were doing, but he was happy.
“Don’t let me do that to you. Keep you from the things you want to do and see because I can’t handle them. Can you promise Mommy that?”
“Ass.”
I snorted. “Yeah. Don’t let me be one of those.”
