Chapter 17 Bella’s Father
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You like it here?” Errataka wat on a nearby rock, noting how at ease jordan sewed.
She nodded and launched into an impassioned speech about everything the loved about this place, including hen inlghts on the posjert.
pression. Then, suddenly, something caught his attention…
dith t have an Adam’s appl.
His brows futi owed slightly. His gaze locked onto Jardun, but her words had already Laded into white nobe
Helps parted and closed, revealing pearly white teeth. She smiled occasionally, his face lighting up like a blooming flowers. Her skin t
Lepurecalled when he grabbed jordan’s wait on the interview day. It had been slim and soft, likea willow branch bending in the wind.
And the long night they spent working overtime. By maning, he and Coles had been posting inessy stubble, but Joel’s chin detained perfectly th
Coles had even joked about Jordan’s Jow testosterone levels.
Kinder?” Jordan called out after a long silence.
Het voor inappet tou back teredity. He blinked and realled the sum had already risen, castling wasihgolden light over the entire village
Things the bill. Like Dell, she’s the morning sun, full of new beginnings that we’ve ache at noon, burning at our peak. And in a tese deca
gher arms wide and closing his eyes as the gentle moutain breeze brothel against hei akini.
ell, his paar altetching beyond the horizon. “You just graduated, and you’re aloessly thinking that far ahead
And after everything that had happened with Della, she hadnesa ka view line with anitain delabaient
Fara glased denial þat din at the mention of Bella. He was still standing there, arma wide open, pulsacing the moquing von like she had nacare in the “Della in berly two, and you’re plenady sent her to preschool? A private se, noless. Aue you brally okay with that?” He wasn’t sure why, but sanribing
be with feet all the Dr.
“Public school durch taka kich then young Next year, 111my to transfer hari to ugun
“Tour Fanndly den an’t help?“Lara asked. He wasn’t mantled, but he knew that the grandparents usually stepped in to lend a hand in mumi hosisebokb.
kan duined siglatly. “My dad’s lan baby with the company. And my mama hayes dan garene for having a child so young, the refuse tabely.”
chou boudy with beasty sakata atal alapping trips termentair mahabout becawn daughni, let alone hes granklaugh
“Hame you wari flunghe a’s giedon the distant mentalna ak
Die mitgedulaar het ansari, bet at the satin Hine, fie mai abjaidat in dod yet, be
ned‘) la Katia, Jordan coulikih İsagter hom muscİ
Marriage? In this lifetime! tajomnible
Hering Delia hutnough thing:
In a shifted his pure back to feedan, studying het. “You really loved Bella’s mother, didn’t you?”
Jedan dicth’s tripped immediately and kept stating off into the distance, lost in thought
Was he thinking absit Bella’s mother? A strange feeling settled in Ezra’s chest – something heavy, something sour
Jondan locked up at the sun, which had climbed higher in the sky. The brightness was almost blinding now. She rated a hand to shirkther eyes.
In the story she had woven, Bella’s mother was actually Bella’s father.
And he was her senior. The person she had secretly loved. The one who had destroyed her innocence.
the never even had the chance to confront him. By the time she found him, he was already lying in a pool of blood. There was no longer any point in seeking justice or answers.
Jordan had been forced to swallow the pain in silence. And Bella was conceived not long after
My first love, I suppose.” Jordan’s eyes dimmed
Ezra hadn’t been in a great mood since returning from Glowcrest Village. He ordered an investigation into Jordan’s family andher past.
The business trip had ended just in time for the weekend, and for once, there was no work to be done. But Jordan’s cold had worsened, and now Bella had come down with a fever too.
Jordan barely ate, focusing entirely on caring for fella. Alter making sure she had lunch and was comfortably tucked in, Jordan finally allowed herself fourst
Bella woke upon her own by the afternoon. She blinked her big, roundeyes, ut up, and turned to see her daddy lying beside her, face flushed ted.
Curious, she tilted her head, studying Jordan intently before reaching out her tiny lingers to poke her warm, reddened cheek
“Maddy, Daddy,” she called out in her soft voice.
Bui jardin didn’t st
Being something was off. Bella shook her gently
didn’t wake up.
ellated to panic, her voice trembling with a hint of fear.
“Daddy wake up bella is being good.”
