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Chapters (103)
  1. Also by Grace McGinty
  2. Dedication
  3. Chapter One
  4. NOVA
  5. Chapter Two
  6. NOVA
  7. Chapter Three
  8. RIVER
  9. Chapter Four
  10. NOVA
  11. Chapter Five
  12. DEVAN
  13. Chapter Six
  14. NOVA
  15. Chapter Seven
  16. RIGBY
  17. Chapter Eight
  18. NOVA
  19. Chapter Nine
  20. RIVER
  21. Chapter Ten
  22. NOVA
  23. Chapter Eleven
  24. DEVAN
  25. Chapter Twelve
  26. NOVA
  27. Chapter Thirteen
  28. RIGBY
  29. Chapter Fourteen
  30. NOVA
  31. Chapter Fifteen
  32. RIVER
  33. Chapter Sixteen
  34. NOVA
  35. Chapter Seventeen
  36. DEVAN
  37. Chapter Eighteen
  38. NOVA
  39. Chapter Nineteen
  40. RIGBY
  41. Chapter Twenty
  42. RIVER
  43. Chapter Twenty-One
  44. NOVA
  45. Chapter Twenty-Two
  46. DEVAN
  47. Chapter Twenty-Three
  48. NOVA
  49. Chapter Twenty-Four
  50. DEVAN
  51. Chapter Twenty-Five
  52. NOVA
  53. Chapter Twenty-Six
  54. RIGBY
  55. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  56. NOVA
  57. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  58. RIGBY
  59. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  60. RIVER
  61. Chapter Thirty
  62. NOVA
  63. Chapter Thirty-One
  64. RIVER
  65. Chapter Thirty-Two
  66. NOVA
  67. Chapter Thirty-Three
  68. DEVAN
  69. Chapter Thirty-Four
  70. NOVA
  71. Chapter Thirty-Five
  72. RIGBY
  73. Chapter Thirty-Six
  74. RIVER
  75. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  76. NOVA
  77. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  78. DEVAN
  79. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  80. NOVA
  81. Chapter Forty
  82. RIGBY
  83. Chapter Forty-One
  84. NOVA
  85. Chapter Forty-Two
  86. RIVER
  87. Chapter Forty-Three
  88. NOVA
  89. Chapter Forty-Four
  90. DEVAN
  91. Chapter Forty-Five
  92. NOVA
  93. Chapter Forty-Six
  94. RIVER
  95. Epilogue
  96. NOVA
  97. EIGHT MONTHS LATER
  98. Acknowledgments
  99. About the Author
  100. Full Page Image
  101. Eight Seconds To Fly
  102. PROLOGUE
  103. THREE YEARS LATER

I tried to push down my excitement. “Uh, not really. Not meals, anyway. I quite like making desserts.”

“Just so happens that I like eating desserts. Cakes or something?”

“Chocolate,” I said noncommittally, taking a fussing Huey back from him.

Rigby’s eyes went wide. “From, like, scratch?”

I shrugged. “Kinda. When I have time.”

I could almost see the chocolate bars in his eyes. My cheeks flushed, and I turned away from the kitchen. Could you be sexually aroused by a double oven? Because I think I was.

It definitely wasn’t because of the way that Rigby’s back flexed as he strode toward the family room. Dev and River had finished hauling all of Huey’s and my stuff up to our rooms, and were now sitting on the couch, watching sports on the huge flatscreen mounted to the wall.

“You finished being a guide dog?” River asked Rigby, who just gave him the finger.

“Better than a beast of burden, asshole,” Rigby replied, flopping down on the other side of the sectional.

Dev looked at me, shaking his head. “The answer to your question is yes, they are always like this.” Huey took that moment to give another disgruntled cry. “He’s hungry?”

I nodded. “I was just wondering where you put the diaper bag, or even the suitcase with all the formula?”

River unfolded from the couch with an ease of a much smaller man. “I packed it all away in the kitchen. Let me show you.” He strode past me and into the kitchen area, then through to a butler’s pantry that ran along the back. He opened up a floor-to-ceiling cupboard. “I don’t know if Rigby showed you in here, but this is where we keep all the food. It goes without saying you eat whatever you want. This place is your home too now.” He looked down at me, his piercing golden eyes riveting me to the spot. He didn’t look away until I nodded my agreement.

“This is the Huey cupboard. I thought it would be easier for you, and us, if everything was in the one place. Filtered water is over there.” He pointed to a spout on the huge sinks. I’d seen bathtubs less deep.

It was thoughtful, I’d give him that. Normally, this wouldn’t be a problem. But River’s kitchen was the size of my whole apartment. Huey’s “cupboard” was the size of my closet. Honestly, what are we going to fill this with?

But when I looked inside, I realized someone must have bought out the baby store, because there was everything I could even think to need and then some. Tins of formula, rows of bottles, a sterilizer, sippy cups, weird little grippy plates so Huey couldn’t throw a plate at my head once he started solids. Pacifiers. Teething rings. Everything. Things I couldn’t even name, let alone have on my shopping list.