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“What?”

“Nothing.”

I coughed.

“Goddamn spit.”

Nigga.

I had to watch my fucking mouth.

Keith been calling himself Carter’s daddy here and there lately, mostly playing around because her actual father supposedly wasn’t around.

Meanwhile, Carter’s actual father was ten feet away.

I looked at the babies again.

And fuck.

My mother was right.

Carter and Serenity looked crazy alike.

Not identical.

But enough.

Same little eyes.

Something around the mouth.

Even the way their cheeks sat when they smiled.

I’d been able to ignore it because Carter looked so much like me.

But seeing her right beside Serenity?

Fuck.

Then I looked at Collin.

He was still so little that babies that age barely looked like anybody but angry old men to me.

Still…

Why the fuck was Xay so comfortable with him?

Before I could think too hard about it, my mother clapped her hands.

“Okay! Y’all, pictures!”

Oh, fuck no.

“Ma—”

“I want pictures before everybody starts leaving.”

“I don’t think⁠—”