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Carter is dressed in his jeans still, but he has taken his shirt off. I turn away, not wanting to look at those abs because, holy hell, but my Ronny is hotter, no one can top him.

Carter is a member of the Devil Souls MC and he has been the MMA world champion for the last five years on a roll.

“Sorry for crashing on you last night,” Trixie tells me.

“Don’t sweat it, you can stay here as long as you want,” I reply, and she walks over, hugging me before looking down at Madeline. “God, she is such a beautiful baby.”

“She is. And she’s ready for her bottle and a change.” I take her down the stairs with them following me.

I get her changed and into a fresh outfit. “Does anyone want to hold her while I fix her bottle?”

Carter holds out his hands and he takes her from me, moving to the couch. Trixie looks like her feet are barely touching the ground as she follows after him.

I don’t care who you are, nothing makes a man look better than being soft and caring toward a baby, especially the ones that are tattooed and look scary.

She sits down next to him. “I think I want one,” she states.

Carter winks at me and then turns to her. “We can start tonight.”

Her face shows her shock at his words, and I can see she tries to speak a few times but her words come out making no sense. Holy shit, he has left her speechless. I don’t think I have ever seen that before.

I take the prepared bottle, handing it to Carter who feeds her while Trixie looks like her brain is fried. Her hair is still completely sticking up on one side, her shirt is hanging off her shoulder, and she still has sleep marks on her face from the pillow she slept on.

But the thing about Trixie is, she is utterly gorgeous, she doesn’t have to try and it’s totally unfair. She jokes a lot but her heart is one of the best, I would love for her to be happy.

She is an RN, but she travels all over to trauma victims to conduct examinations involving sexual assault and rape kits. She specializes in it, and it tears her up when she does them but her personality and how happy she is makes the process easier on the victims.

I even asked her once that if it hurts her so bad, why does she do it? She told me someone has to because no matter what, what she is feeling is nothing compared to the victims’ trauma.

It’s like me and my foster kids, it was hard and it hurt to see so many of them the way they were living, but nothing I feel can compare to their feelings.

Quitting is something I want to do even more now, as Elliot kind of ruined it further for me. I don’t have the fire in my stomach for it like I did when I first started.

I just want to be a mom to Madeline and be happy. One day I know I will go back, but right now my heart isn’t in it.

I ordered breakfast from one of the restaurants in town because I’m not feeling up to cooking, plus I didn’t want the smell to wake Ronny as I cooked.

Carter and Trixie are in their own world as I sit on the couch opposite them, when I hear a door open upstairs.

I get butterflies as I wait for him to walk down the stairs like how I felt when I first saw him.

Ronny is shirtless, only in a pair of sweatpants, and I fight back the moan at seeing his amazing body, his face soft from sleep.

He leans over the back of the couch, kissing me sweetly on the lips. I smile against them. “I wanted you to sleep in.” I catch his hand, dragging him around the couch to sit beside me.

He lifts me before settling me in his lap sideways with my legs on the couch cushions.

“Have you heard from anyone yet this morning?” Carter asks as he passes the baby off to Trixie who cuddles her to her shoulder.

I love that my girl has so many people that love her so much; she went from sleeping in that dog bed to a whole new life full of love.

I can’t fathom the thought of her going without or what would have happened to her if we didn’t intervene.

Ronny runs his hand down my arm, and I lay my head on his shoulder, feeling sad thinking about what happened—well, what Elliot has done.

He has ruined so many people’s lives with his selfishness. “No, I checked my phone and I know that they will be getting the Devil Souls MC involved too, because you guys were attacked last night also.”

“Yeah, I thought so. As if we will not stick our noses in this after what we learned,” Carter says, and Trixie looks confused.

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