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“I’m your last stop before court,” warned Eliza Burke. “I know you both know that. You’ve done so well up to now. I’m sure we can work this out.”
“She endangered my child,” Dev said stubbornly.
My child? Megan gritted her teeth to stop herself from losing her cool. Dev always knew how to say things that got under her skin, but she couldn’t fall for that trick. “Ruby is perfectly fine. She had an unauthorized adventure, but we found her before any harm came to her. She understands that she screwed up. This is a normal part of childhood. A normal part of a normal childhood.”
“And that’s exactly where we differ.” That British colonial accent of Dev’s was driving her nuts. It always made him sound more rational than he actually was. “Ruby is not normal. We need to stop treating her as i
