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Chapter 49
"Hello?" I greeted him and a smiled broke through his tired face.
"Hey." He groggily replied, giving me a side hug. "Didn't sleep?"
"Nah." I wrapped the shawl around myself more properly. "Couldn't without you. Was reading."
"I don't want my kid to be a nerd." He chuckled lightly as I followed him upstairs into the bedroom.
"Reading is so much more than what you think of it." I took out clothes for him as he freshened up. "How was the dinner by the way?"
"Good." He replied briefly, changing his shirt.
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