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Juniper felt the unconditional love and support of her mother blooming in her chest, and she smiled and rested her hand on Maeve’s hand. “It’s okay, Mama.”
“I simply don’t understand why he thinks he has the right to threaten your partners.”
“Simply because I have only known of my daughter a few days, Maeve, doesn’t mean I can’t love her already. The moment I looked into her eyes, I felt the need to protect my daughter. I know you think this is something which needs to build up or be earned, but I cannot simply turn off the love I immediately felt the moment I met her.”
Maeve’s nostrils flared but Fermín continued speaking.
“It is no different than a daddy in the delivery room holding their baby for the first time and feeling the overwhelming need to love and protect their child for all time. It doesn’t matter to me she is approaching thirty and never wanted me in her life. That point is moot to me. I am her father. I love her as unconditionally as you do. I have no problem warning any man, at this table or anywhere else, she owns my heart and if they break hers, I’m coming for theirs.”
Juniper pressed her lips together at the bold stateme
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are the greatest blessing of my life and my affection for you doesn’t need to be quantified by time. I know you are strong, independent, and resilient, and it’s always just been you and your mother but now you have me.”
“Like it or not?” Maeve asked with a curl to her mouth.
“Yes. Like it or not. I am her Papa. You can’t deny it. Look at her. You saw the photos of my sister. I don’t need DNA to prove what my heart tells me.”
“You can get DNA testing if you want. I know who her father is.” Maeve folded her arms defiantly over her chest.
“My darling, I have just finished saying, I don’t need it. I know what we did that night so many years ago. I was there. It was magical. We talked about making a baby and we did.”
“How does that work?” Beni interrupted making Juniper wonder if he was trying to change the subject. “You meet her once, hook up in a truck and plan to have babies?”
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been through so much loss. Three miscarriages over the last
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drunken fantasy of the perfect life coming out the pain you’ve both been through, but the reality is something different.”
“I don’t need the DNA connect, Maeve. I just want her to mother my children. Whether we adopt or use a surrogate or we have babies of our own, I only want her to be their mother. I want to watch her fulfill every dream she’s had in her life, and I want to be part of it. I know, from the moment she fell apart in my arms when she lost her baby just over a month ago, that her heartbreak was real. She wanted it so desperately and fuck me if I won’t beg, borrow or steal to give it to her.” He smiled at Juniper with a crooked tilt to his mouth, “so yeah, I knew from the first time I ever held her in my arms, I wanted a family with her.”
“See, he gets it.” Fermín grinned at Maeve. “Blame the Spanish blood.”
“Blame the cock,” Anna said shocking the other two women and causing them to burst into laughter.
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