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“Yeah.”

Her shoulders relaxed slightly.

“Good.”

“I’m having a boy.”

She paused.

Then nodded.

“Another boy.”

“Yeah.”

“Congratulations.”

“Thank you.”

There was another silence.

Not uncomfortable exactly.

Just different.

Our conversations had boundaries now.

We didn’t talk about men.

Definitely didn’t talk about Xay unless we had to.

And we didn’t talk about us.

I looked over at Carter crawling toward Serenity.

She was sitting inside one of those activity seats kicking her little legs while Carter tried to grab whatever toy she had.

Sam watched them too.

I looked down at my hands.

“I know saying sorry doesn’t do shit.”

Sam didn’t answer.

“I just…”

I stopped.

Because we’d done this already.

Not exactly like this.

But I’d apologized.

Cried.

Tried to explain.