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Chapter 145: The Parenting Classes

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The room was small, smelled of stale coffee and floor wax, and was filled with the most terrifying people Liam Cross had ever met.

Other fathers.

It was 7 PM on a Tuesday. He was in the basement of a community center in the West Village.

He was wearing his "Dad Uniform"—jeans, t-shirt, leather jacket. But he still felt like a wolf in sheep's clothing. He was a billionaire CEO. He owned towers. He moved markets.

And he had absolutely no idea how to swaddle a baby.

Or, more accurately, how
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