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Chapter Eighty

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“To love someone is to risk not knowing if they’ll ever say it back.” By Unknown

April was already back home by the time Noah returned from golf. She’d changed into leggings and a tank top, her feet tucked under her on the couch, a mug of tea cooling beside her.

Her hair was piled on top of her head in a messy bun. She had Noah’s iPad in her hands, looking at baby names. Being with Poppy and Jade today had got her thinking about it. What was a good name for a baby?

Because they wouldn’t always be a baby. Being at school with a bad name could be terrible. Kids could really be cruel. She remembered being at school with one kid named Scott… great name, but the kids had called him Scotty Snotty. It was the kids that had been little shits. How could actors or famous people call their kids’ stupid names? April often laughed at them when they got announced. Thinking poor kid.

Now it was their turn to think of a name that wouldn’t put their child into therapy.

She didn’t hear him walk in until
Billie Summer

Cute moment. between them. Now let's talk baby names without sending their kids to therapy. Ideas because I'm going to need it at end of book. Boy or girl at this point I hadn't made up my mind. Love Billie

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Rhais
I like meaning in names. Boy - Lucius means light and Girl - Abigail means father’s joy.
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Baby Foxy
twin, boy and girl. Alexander and Alicia
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Heather
Boy handsome like Noah Name Declan Ryan— after his friend
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