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narrow my eyes at her. “I thought you didn’t. Heck, you even tried to tell me not to marry him.”
    Mom sighs and turns to me. “That is true. However, over the years, I’ve seen how he looks at you and you him. I’ve gotten over everything I’ve thought about him in the past. He’s ‘it’ for you, Avalynn. You just need to open your eyes and see it.”
    “How can you say this? You’re supposed to be on my side, not his. He got his mistress knocked up, and he only married me for his stupid company shit, anyway,” I spit out at her.
    “Ava, open your eyes. You’re only seeing what you want to see, hearing what you want to hear. I thought I raised you to be smart.” She shakes her head.
    Ouch.
    “Just don’t shut him out completely, not yet.”
    I grab the plate of cookies after she frosts them and take them up to my room. Seems like the only person on my side right now is Daddy, and I doubt that will last long once he and Cameron talk, since he’s always liked him.
     
     
     
    Cameron
    I shut the guest room door after putting my bags away and walk toward where Loretta said the office was. I knock and wait until I hear him say to come in.
    Opening it slowly, I peek my head inside. “Uh, hey, Jeff,” I say hesitantly.
    His jaw clenches, and he nods. “Cameron, come in. Take a seat, and then you can start with why the fuck you broke my baby’s heart.” I gulp and do as he says.
    “I don’t want a divorce from her. I love her,” I tell him.
    He narrows his eyes at me. “Then why have you still been playing around with your side piece, huh? You say you love my daughter, but you can’t even remain faithful to her?”
    I close my eyes for a moment before responding. “Jeff, once Ava and I went all in on this marriage, I never touched another woman.”
    He tilts his head to the side, his dark brown eyes glaring at me. “Explain this then,” he says, throwing the same newspaper that Alana threw at me.
    With a sigh, I place it on his desk in front of me. “That was taken out of context. I was summoned to Becky’s father’s house that night. I left, angry, and she followed me. She was upset and I decided to just go get something to eat with her. That’s it. She talked, but I didn’t even pay attention. She felt dizzy when we stepped outside, and she thought she was going to faint. It was instinct to help her. That’s it. There is nothing more to that.”
    “The baby yours?”
    “Hell no. I know who the father of her baby is, but it’s not mine, that’s for sure. I haven’t touched Becky in years. That’s the truth.”
    He stares at me, and for a moment, I fear he’s going to grab his hunting rifle from the cabinet across the room and shoot me. But his face softens. “Well, then, I think you need to go set things right with Avalynn.”
    “I’m trying, Jeff. I really am.”
    “Well, try harder!” he booms.
    I’m starting to get annoyed. “Everyone keeps telling me to try harder. What am I supposed to do, tie her to a chair and make her listen to me?”
    “If that’s what it takes.” Jeff shrugs.
    “I’ll try, Jeff. That’s all I can promise. Right now, though, the divorce business is over. It’s not happening. Once I tell my lawyer that Ava is pregnant, having my child, the divorce will be shelved until after the baby is born.”
    “Well, that gives you lots of time, then,” he says. “Just so you know—if it wasn’t for Ava, you’d be dead.”
    I stare at him, a little scared.
    “Ava hid my guns. I went hunting a while back, had to borrow a rifle from my buddy. You get talking to Ava, and tell her I need my guns back.”
    My eyes widen, and I just nod. 
    “Now, I’ve always liked you, but Loretta, not so much,” he tells me, and I have always known that. Although, over the last year, her opinion has obviously changed. “You need to make her listen. I know my Avalynn, she’s stubborn and puts up a good fight, but I have faith that you can make things right