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76: Come Hell or High Water
Jarren
It was hard to believe that Jillie was already twenty-eight weeks pregnant. It seemed like time was ticking by quickly, and it wouldn’t be long before our baby was here. I still hadn’t told her that I was going with Christen, even though I was sure she already knew. For some reason, I just couldn’t bring myself to say it out loud. It would only serve to upset her, and I didn’t want that.
Pulling myself from my thoughts, I looked over to the screen from the chair I was sitting in beside the bed Jillie was lying on. Hollie was pointing out the baby’s body parts to us. Excitement was written all over Jillie’s face, and I couldn’t help but smile. It amazed me how far she’d come from the first time Reid told her she was pregnant. She went from deni
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