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CHAPTER 17
He was a shallow man… And he didn’t want Nevaeh to have that. He didn’t want her to be sad and in constant pain and doubt. She should be sassy and happy. Teasing and laughing the way she’d been with him every morning until this one. But he didn’t know if he could give her what she wanted.
“Aiden?”
After he gave her a quick glimpse, Aiden shook his head and pulled down the coffee mugs she’d bought for them at Starbucks, after insisting that using his company logo mugs wasn’t going to cut it.
They were big cups since they’d both discovered that neither of them could face the day without an extra-large-extra-strong brew. The green background with white flowers always reminded him of Hawaii.
&nbs
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