Page 156 of Stay With Me

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Is it a boy or girl?

Tripp

We don’t know yet. Not until she’s twenty weeks.

Noah

Awwww what a cutie!

Tripp

Five different people thought I was the dad today.

Landen

Yikes. How’d that go?

Tripp

Well, we didn’t correct them.

Wilder

I know I give you shit 99% of the time, but you need to be careful. You’re gonna get attached to the idea of a baby that isn’t yours, and she could walk away at any time.

Landen

Magnolia wouldn’t do that.

Wilder

Maybe not, but Tripp’s putting himself in a position to get hurt.

Tripp

Are you actually worried about me? Is that love I hear?

Wilder

Fuck off. Don’t get used to it.

A laugh bubbles out of me because this is a whole new side to Wilder I haven’t seen in a long-ass time.

Tripp

I appreciate the concern. But trust me, I know. I’m willing to risk it.

Waylon

You still think she’s gonna change her mind and wanna get back together,don’t you?

Tripp

I’m hoping that, yeah. We were good together.

And I’m madly, deeply, stupidly in love with her.

Noah

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