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“I couldn’t report that I’d saved him, Charleigh. I knew the only thing that would happen was he’d go right back to Frederick. Everyone needed to believe he’d been lost to the river. So Cash created a new identity for him.”
She scrambled back, that stunning face drenched with emotion, the flecks of cinnamon a toil in the depths of those caramel eyes.
“He’s mine?” It was a plea.
Wasn’t sure how to fuckin’ believe it, but I recognized it then. This woman who I’d only seen pictures of.
Super long blonde hair. Much thinner than she was now.
I’d never gotten a close enough view to see the color of her eyes.
She was so much the same and somehow entirely different.
I reached out and brushed my thumb over her cheek. “Yeah, Charleigh, he’s yours.”
She gripped me by the shirt. “Take me to him. Take me to him now.”
FIFTY-SIX
CHARLEIGH
Dizziness sweptthrough me as River helped me to my feet.
I couldn’t believe it. Wasterrifiedto believe it.
But I knew it was true.
Knew all the way to my soul that that little boy belonged to me.
I’d felt it.
Sensed it.
This connection that wouldn’t let me go.
A connection I knew had somehow led me here.
My heart flooded with emotion, and I swayed with the impact of it.
River curled his arm around my waist. “I’ve got you, Charleigh.”
I nodded against him as he guided me out of his shop. He locked it behind us and led me around the corner to where his SUV was parked.
He helped me in, and I itched on the seat, so anxious to get to my son that I couldn’t sit still.
My heart pounded violently in my chest, and I glanced at River as he climbed into the front seat. I immediately reached for him, thisvolatile, perfect man who kept me steady. “Thank you. I don’t even know how to…”
I trailed off.
River swiveled and took both sides of my face in his hands. “There is no thanking me, Charleigh. I’ve been haunted for five fuckin’ years that I failed you all. And I fucking hate that your parents and your cousin were killed in all of this, but I…” Storm-cloud eyes raged. “I can’t believe it’s you. That you found him.”
My fingers brushed across his lips. “I found you both.”
The harshest kind of love cut through his sharp features. Devotion and loyalty. This man who would truly do whatever it took.
One of his hands slipped into my hair and he dropped his forehead to mine. “Told you, Little Runner, this is where you belong.”
I nodded against him, and he sat back and pulled out of the parking spot, then he started in the direction of Miss Liberty’s.
