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I laughed.

He narrowed his eyes at me, “Don’t you start. I’m Isaiah’s godfather. Like hell am I letting anyone touch him with dirty hands.”

And beside him? Alec stood doing the same thing.

Alec looked at me and winked.

I had asked Alec to be Ryder’s godfather.

I had chosen Harlee to be Isaiah’s godmother and Tatum to be Ryder’s godmother.

It was perfect.

My mom walked over to me and said, “You're going to be an amazing mom, Talia. I am so proud of the woman you have become.”

I smiled, “Thank you, Mom.”

I rocked in my rocker that night with Isaiah and smiled at Dominik, who was swaying back and forth with Ryder.

They say that two fractured halves can’t make a whole one.

Well.... just look at us.

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After we put the boys to bed, he stood there removing his shirt by gripping it behind his neck.

His muscled body.

Those tatts.

I licked my lips.

His eyes smoldered.

Oh, yeah.

Oops.

‘When in a relationship, a real man doesn’t make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.’

– Bronson’s Secret Thoughts.

Chapter 19

Bronson

I watched as Lila moved across the restaurant, and that was when I noticed the man at her back.

The man who had his hand on her lower back.

I ground my teeth together so hard that I felt a molar chip.

Fucking. Hell.

I sat there as I watched her sit down, then he took the seat across from her.

And when she smiled at him, it took everything I had in me not to flip this table over and storm across the restaurant.

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