GAVIN'S POVCAUGHT BY MISTAKEI woke up early, the way I always do. For a moment, I reached out my hand, expecting to feel Iris beside me, only to remember she wasn’t here.The emptiness on her side of the bed hit me like a punch in the gut, her scent still faint on the sheets. It hadn’t faded yet, just like the ache in my chest. I missed her. Everything felt wrong without her and the kids around.As I lay there, trying to push away the heaviness, reality came crashing back. Ciara. She’d come barging into my house last night, uninvited, unwelcome.I pushed myself up from the bed, quickly threw on a shirt, and headed toward the guest room. I needed to make sure she was gone, just as she promised.When I reached the door, I knocked firmly, my patience already running thin. The door creaked open, and there she was, Ciara, standing in nothing but a towel wrapped around her body.I froze for a second, taken aback, then immediately turned my gaze away, irritation boiling up inside me.“What
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