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“I don’t ever want you to feel as if you aren’t enough with me, Kelly. I mean that.”

They were sitting in the parking lot of her complex right now. He had to pick Ty up in twenty minutes and was just dropping her off.

She reached her hand over and threaded their fingers together. “Thank you for that. I think we all feel it at times in our lives. I’ll feel it with you and most times I’ll just brush it off. I want you to never feel it with me either, but something tells me that you won’t be that way.”

“You don’t know that,” he said.

“And I like that you’d admit that now too,” she said. She leaned in and kissed him. “Go get your son and we can talk later or talk tomorrow. Just remember I love you.”

“Love you too,” he said.

“It gets easier to say it after the first time, but don’t worry, I won’t make you say it all the time. I’m not that way either. When I say it I want to have a lot of meaning behind the words, not something said on auto.”

“I like that,” he said. “I feel the same way.”

She gave him one more kiss and hopped out and he went to get his son.

When he was knocking on Electra’s door, he looked at his watch and saw he was a few minutes early.

Ty opened the door. “Hi, Dad. Mom’s in the bathroom.”

“You’re not supposed to open the door,” he said.

“I knew it was you. Mom yelled from the bathroom for me to do it.”

He wouldn’t say anything about the door not being locked. “Let’s wait for your mother before we leave.”

The bathroom door opened. “I’m right here,” Electra said. “Just getting ready to go out.”

She was in a tight red dress that didn’t cover a whole hell of a lot of her body. Not his problem. Her hair was slicked back and there was a thick coating of makeup on her face.

He wouldn’t make one comment about it either.

“Say bye to your mom.”

Ty ran over and hugged Electra and then ran back to him. “Time to go.”

“Yep, we are out of here,” he said and went back to his SUV to get his kid home to something more stable.

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INFLUENCED YOUR DECISION

“Congrats, new Daddy,” Kelly said to Cade two days later.

“Thanks,” Cade said, coming in to shut her door. Oh boy, here it comes. “Maybe I should say congrats to you instead.”

“What does that mean?” she asked.

Might as well get him to spell it out even though she knew Cade was aware.

“Short of ending up with a guy whose last name is Fierce, you can’t get much better than Michael.”

She grinned. “I think he’s pretty great. Kind of slow and naive like you. Had no clue I’ve been looking at his ass for years.”

Cade burst out laughing. “He needs that in his life too. Might keep him on his toes. If anyone deserves some of your sunshine, it’s Michael.”

She always loved Cade as a boss, but that comment just melted her heart.