Chapter 9 - THE SECOND CHANCE
With the legal battles behind them, the atmosphere between Gabriel and Nora began to shift. It wasn't an explosion of romance, but a slow, tectonic movement. He moved into a small house nearby, but he was at Nora’s apartment every single day, for dinner, for breakfast, for the mundane, beautiful struggles of raising a child.
"I think I’m ready," Nora said one evening, after Emma had fallen asleep.
"Ready for what?" Gabriel asked, sitting on her sofa.
"To talk about us."
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"I’m not asking for us, Nora. I’m asking for the chance to keep proving I can be the father she needs."
"I know," she said, leaning her head on his shoulder. "But you’re finally learning to be a man I want to be around, too."
