Hugo The next morning, I felt marginally better. Luca's lecture and Michael's unconditional love had grounded me. My son had crawled into bed with me at dawn, his small body warm and solid against mine, and whispered, "Daddy, you smell sad." Kids. They saw everything. "Daddy made a mistake with a friend," I'd told him, smoothing his wild morning hair. " I'm going to fix it." "Is it RiRi?" he'd asked, those big eyes so much like mine looking up at me with concern. "Yeah, buddy. It's RiRi." "You should say sorry and bring cookies. That's what you tell me to do." So here I was, mid-morning, headed to Erica's house with my crutches awkward under my arms and a peace offering in a paper bag—pastries from Flour & Co., the only bakery in the city that could possibly compete with The Sweet Spot. It was the thought that counted, right? I needed to see her, to apologize properly. To explain that my jealousy had gotten the better of me, that I'd been an ass, that her happiness mattered mo
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