CHAPTER 32

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CHAPTER- THIRTY-TWO

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BRINLEY.

"Where have you been?" Julia says, both hands on her hips.

'Taking care of your baby,' I wanted to say, but I didn't; there's no sense in causing Julia to say something that will make me slap the shit out of her.

No matter how bad I want to do that.

"Bane was fussy. We walked around town all day,"

She scoffs, "You should have asked my permission to take him into town," She says.

"I didn't want to wake you from your beauty sleep," I say sarcastically.

"Whatever, give me my baby,"

I hand Bane over to his mother, and without uttering another word, I run upstairs to my room. My phone starts ringing when I close the door and glance at the screen.

Kelsy.

"Hey, Kels,"

"Brinley, who was that adorable baby, you sent me a picture of. Unfortunately, I was busy earlier and couldn't phone you," She says, sounding exhausted.

"It was Julia's baby, his name Bane," I tell her as I run my bathwater. My feet are