“What’d he say, prince baby daddy?”
He shook his head but didn’t argue against the nickname. “Closing time. Do you want anything to go?”
I shook my head, feeling suddenly sleepy now that I was stuffed to the gills, so he paid the tab and left Gustav a sizable tip.
“Come back soon, my friend, and we will share a beer to celebrate your beautiful child!” the man said a little too loudly, and congratulatory shouts went up around the room as people slowly made their way out the door.
I blushed to the roots of my hair at the attention, but Gael just wrapped his arm around me and beamed as he accepted the congratulations.
There was a lump in my throat the size of my home state as we left Gustav’s, but a soul-deep happiness that I’d never experienced with anyone else.
FORTY-NINE
Gael
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