Page 3 of Happily Evan After (Dog Tags #5)

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Marley

Four months ago…

Even before I saw the two pink lines, I knew that night would live with me forever.

How could it not? He had been everything. An unparalleled lover, and I didn’t need more experience to know that.

My first ever one-night-stand, and he’d forever changed me.

Yes, because of the baby, but it was more than that.

Somehow, in the midst of two strangers connecting in the most carnal of ways, he had somehow burrowed so deep into my conscious.

I didn’t even know his name, but there hadn’t been a day in the last couple of months that I hadn’t thought of him.

He was my first thought every morning and my last before I went to sleep.

When I first found out I was pregnant, I tried to find him. He deserved to know. Lana didn’t know who he was. I guess she’s not as nosy as I am because had I had access to his wallet, I likely would have snooped on at least his name. And verified his age.

No one had answered the few times I’d knocked on that lake house door. It was probably an Airbnb, and I’d never find out his identity. I hated that for our child.

I’d grown up without a father, and it made me feel terrible that I’d created the same situation for my baby. But unless he just walked into my life, I had no idea how we could reunite.