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Authors: D. L. Sparks

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India and I broke our hug, looked up and saw Trip standing in the hallway. Neither one of us heard him come back into the house.
He walked over and pulled me up off the couch. “Idalis, you are the first thing I think about when I wake up, and the last thing I think about before I go to sleep at night. I have loved you ever since the first time I laid eyes on you.”
“I'm so sorry,” I whispered. “I didn't mean for any of this to happen.”
He reached up and wiped the tears from my cheeks. “We can't change the past; all we can do is move forward. It's not about us; it's about that little boy upstairs.”
“So now what?” I asked.
“You do something you haven't done in a long time.”
“What's that?”
“You can try trusting me again.”
He wrapped his arms around me; and for the first time in as long as I could remember, I actually felt safe.
For the first time in a long time, everything felt right.
He chuckled. “Oh, and we gotta explain to my mother that I knocked you up.”
We both laughed a little harder as I buried myself deeper inside his embrace.
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