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Chapter 46

Author: Tarina
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Kendall

I’m full and tired by the time dinner is over, and I go to lie down for a few minutes. It’s still early, but I fall asleep nevertheless.

I wake up late at night. Looking at my phone I notice that it’s two in the morning. Someone is banging on the door and I squint at the doorway.

“Come in,” I call, and Camden all but falls into the room, stumbling toward the bed.

“Are you going to see anyone else?” he asks, his words slurred, and I just stare at him, sitting up in bed with the duvet still over my body.

“What the hell are you talking about?” I ask. “You’re drunk.”

“So?” he asks, walking over and climbing onto the bed clumsily, plopping down beside me on top of the duvet.

“So, you don’t know what you’re saying,” I say, looking over at him and fighting a laugh. His dark hair is falling into his face, his shirt half unbuttoned, showing bronze flesh in between. He smells like whiskey. “Have you been drinking all day?”

“I am stressed,” he says. “You’re having my baby and you’re goin
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