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QUINN'S POVSix months had passed since the DNA test.Six months since I learned that the little boy sleeping in Laura's arms was my son.Sometimes I still said the words quietly, just to hear them.My son.They never felt less frightening.They only became more real.Laura and I had settled into something neither of us had expected. We weren't together. We weren't pretending to be. There were no secret kisses or promises. There was simply our son.And somehow, that was enough to keep us connected.I saw him twice a week when Laura was in the city. I attended appointments when she invited me. I sent clothes and toys, although Laura had warned me our son did not need a new gift every time I saw him.Laura had bought a house right next to Riley's.“You're going to turn him into a spoiled little prince,” she told me one afternoon.I looked at the ridiculous collection of toys on the floor.“He deserves it.”“He's just six months old.”“He has expensive taste.”She laughed.That laugh sti

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BAXTER'S POVTwo years had passed.Laura was no longer the frightened woman who arrived in Dewdrop carrying too much pain and too many reasons to leave everything behind.She had built something there.The bakery she and Riley started had grown beyond anything they expected. Their orders reached neighboring towns and cities, and Laura had become surprisingly good at baking, although she still insisted she hated decorating cakes.She had also returned to acting.Not because she needed to prove anything.Because she wanted to.She looked happy.Her son was two now, and he had Quinn's eyes.Quinn had changed.He had become a good father. He showed up, listened when Laura said no, and never confused being the child's father with owning Laura.Their relationship wasn't romantic.It didn't need to be.They had found something quieter.Anto had recovered too.It had taken almost a year before he felt completely like himself again. He had lost the movie that once seemed like his doorway into

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