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“Did I miss something?” He lay on his side, propped up on his elbow.
“What? No.” She shook her head. “I was just thinking.”
“About?”
“The apartment. The coffee shop.”
He traced a finger down her rib cage. “The apartment would make a great perk for a manager.”
Maggie smiled. She had been thinking the same thing. “I’d have plenty of time to get things in order before the baby comes.”
“Plenty.”
Was she dreaming? Maggie resisted the impulse to pinch herself.
Slade leaned down and whispered against her belly.
Maggie stared down at him, puzzled but pleased.
He glanced up at her and smiled. “I’m talking to the baby.”
That was the sweetest thing she had ever heard. “Did my sisters tell you to do that, too?”
“Nope.” He kissed her tummy. “I bought a guidebook.”
She ran her fingers through his silky hair and thanked God he had saved this man and brought him back to her. “Maybe I need to read that book.”
He crawled up next to her and kissed her on the nose. “We’ll read it together. And in a couple of years we’ll make him or her a baby brother or sister.”
“I love the way you lay out a plan, Keaton.”
“Hang around and I’ll teach you a few things.”
Maggie planned on it. Forever was a long time, but that was about what she had in mind.
ISBN: 978-1-4592-1593-1
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgement
Dedication
About the Author
Books by Debra Webb
Cast of Characters
Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Copyright

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