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“Probably. Jasper some day is going to want his mom and dadtogetherlike all the other kids at school and I know Cole, he’ll cave then. He won’t want his son to be unhappy. Not like you’ll make both of them.”

I slammed the door so hard it banged into the wall behind me, and I found both women standing off facing each other around the corner from the mirrors and stalls where there was a sitting room. Thankfully, the rest of the women in the restroom were at least pretending to mind their own business and only a few raised their eyebrows at my appearance. “Anyone records this or lets anyone know I’m here and I’ll sue,” I threatened.

Normally, I wouldn’t, but the last thing I needed was a social media shitstorm with said mother of my son in a public women’s restroom.

The media would have a field day with it, especially the gossip sites.

The women I didn’t know ducked their heads and scurried outside and I finally found Eden and Selma, standing off and glaring at each other.

Selma looked like she was going to blow a gasket at any moment.

Eden looked more amused than irritated or scared.

That’s my girl.

“I think you haven’t learned shit.”

CHAPTER36

EDEN

Of all the ways to end the best Saturday I’d had since I left Marysville, Selma tracking me down and following me into the bathroom and getting in my face as soon as I left a stall was not anywhere near myBingo!card of possibilities.

Cole’s voice was thick as he found us, hands thrown to his hips, and I had no doubt he was resisting the urge to strangle Selma and her irrational dreams.

As angry as I was, and as scared as I’d been when I first walked out of the stall and almost ran right into Selma’s pinched-up, angry face, I was finding it difficult not to laugh.

Of all the things for him to overhear.

“Cole,” Selma said and shot him a thousand-watt mega smile. “Hey. Eden and I were just talking.”

“I heard. And I heard you still have your head full of bullshit.”

“It’s not bullshit.” Her smile fell. “Someday—”

“Someday I’m going to marry the woman standing next to you and she’s theonlywoman I’d ever marry,” he cut her off abruptly, and my jaw dropped at his statement. “I’m not only going to marry Eden as soon as I can get her to agree to it, I’m going to plant babies inside her so Jasper can grow up in a house filled with brothers and sisters. She’s going to move into my house, and she’s going to be my wife. And Eden is theonlywoman I’ve ever wanted to marry, the only woman I’ve ever loved, so all this shit you have in your head, you need to take to a doctor to sort through, because I swear to God, you fill Jasper’s head with any of this shit, not only am I going to be the one setting him straight, I’m going to take you back to court for creating a hostile environment for our child and I won’t care frankly, if he ever sees you again. Eden and I will take care of him.”

“I knew that was your plan,” she hissed, and good-freaking hell.

“I’m not dealing with your brand of crazy anymore. Want to talk to me? Call my lawyer. Want to harass Eden? I’ll slap a restraining order on you so damn fast your head will spin and no one in town will want anything to do with you.”

“I get it,” I said, and Selma’s head whipped toward me, but in a way, I felt for her because she’d been holding onto the hope of Cole Buchanan for longer than I’d ever known her.

“Excuse me?”

“I get it—how much you love Cole.” Even if her love was a twisted infatuation. “He’s the best man I’ve ever met. He’s an incredible dad. He’s a good guy with morals that far supersede any normal human. He’s talented, and he’s sexy as hell, and he loves his family and everyone around him who’s halfway decent. I get it, Selma, why you don’t think you’ll ever meet someone nearly as good as him because that’ll be hard to find, but that doesn’t mean you get to keep trying to claim a man who’s made it clear he doesn’t want you.”

To my utter shock, her chin wobbled before she rolled her lips together. “You’re not good enough for him.”

She was right about that. “I don’t think there’s a woman on the planet who is. But I’m damn lucky he thinks I am.”

“You are,” Cole stated, and his voice was thick with as much emotion as mine was.

“I’ll tell,” Selma said. “I’ll tell everyone that you two killed Hilary. He won’t want you once you ruin his life.”

“It won’t be me doing that, it’ll be you.”

She shook her head.

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