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going to own up to me then I didn’t want her having my kid.” Dale stopped, blowing out a breath. “She stormed off. We never spoke for a long time. She avoided me in the hallways, and I slept with other girls. It was over. For the next nine months I watched her get bigger and her stomach more rounded.” Dale looked lost in his own little world. “I couldn’t stop the wanting. I wanted more than anything to touch her stomach. It’s sick, right? I was eighteen, almost nineteen, and I just wanted to touch my baby. I put it inside her. It was mine. Molly was mine. The other women stopped after that.”
    Trey listened to him, knowing he needed to get this off his chest.
    “When she gave birth she let me hold Sasha for a couple of hours. I asked her again to marry me, and she refused.”
    “Is Luke your boy as well?”
    “Yeah, I slept with her after she refused my proposal. I must have proposed to that woman over a hundred times, and she still says no. Fuck if I know why.”
    “Why are you telling me this?” Trey asked.
    “Because I couldn’t keep it in anymore. I’m twenty-four years old, and I’m tired of hearing my roommate fuck countless women. I’ve not touched another woman in over three years. Molly has been the woman for me for a long time. I was too fucking stupid to see it.”
    “What about all those tales you used to tell of your women?”
    “Lies. I told stories. I support Molly as much as I can. I make sure she has plenty to eat and the bills are paid for. She doesn’t want anything from me, but I don’t know how much longer I can go on watching my kids grow up without me.”
    It was so much to take in. the pain on Dale’s face was heartbreaking to see.
    “ Why did you tell me and not Max?”
    “He can’t keep his mouth shut. I love him like a brother , but he doesn’t know when to stop.”
    Trey understood that. Out of the three of them, Max was the most social, the most exciting. Trey knew he was starting to grow tired of the party scene. There had to be more to life than fucking countless women.
    Fuck, when had he become such a pussy?
    “If we’re being open and honest about shit then I may as well tell you that for as long as I can remember I’ve been into June Armstrong.”
    He let the words settle between them. Never once had he said them out loud, not even to himself.
    “You’ve got a thing for June? The woman across the street? The girl you used to bully along with Dale and me?”
    Throughout all the questions Dale asked, Trey nodded.
    “Fuck, man, you’re in for some tough loving. There’s no way she’s going to fall for you. You’re like her biggest enemy.”
    Trey told him everything that happened last night. “She told me if I was a doctor trying to save her life, she wouldn’t let me near her.”
    “It seems we’ve both got problems,” Dale said. “At least you can try to fix yours and show June you’re a different guy than the ass you were to her.”
    “Why can’t you fix your problem as well?” Trey asked.
    “I’ve got to get past Molly’s defenses. She’s turned me down all this time. I don’t know what it’s going to take to get her to let me back on her team. You knew what you did wrong. I’ve not got a clue what I did wrong with Molly.”
    Raising his cup of coffee to his lips, he took a sip.
    “Then I guess we’ve got our work cut out for us.”
    “I feel sorry for you. I’ve never hurt Molly, but you’ve got a good five years of pain on June. She might never get past that.”
    “I don’t know what I’m going to do. I’ve got to do something.”
    “I’m here for you, buddy.”
    Trey smiled. He was under no illusions that this was going to be easy. In fact he knew it was going to be downright difficult to draw June out.
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    For most of the morning June sat with Sasha and Luke in between her baking commitments. Saturdays were always slow days, which she was thankful for. After this morning with Trey she wasn’t ready to handle a