“Who else?” Hayden’s voice was low, like the night itself, pulling me. “I was possity, my fate up in the air, and you still kept the baby”

Oh. So, that’s what this was about he thought I’d been silly.

“I don’t know if it was silly or not,” I shot back ‘But this is my baby. The baby came to me, and I’m going to love them with everything I’ve got.” Honestly? I’d never thought of him as our baby. He was mine, plain and simple.

“Alright,” Hayden said softly, then kissed me. From now on, we’ll love him together IS, thank you.”

Thank me? For keeping the baby? For trusting him? Either way, it didn’t matter sys

After everything-the heartbreak, the revenge plots, the power games-1 finally fel light. Like none of it really mattered.

What mattered now was living a life that felt like mine.