Surrender: Keeping Her in the Dark Vol. 4
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“Henry is only 18 months old. He can’t go to school yet. He can’t even feed himself.” He kissed her forehead.
“But I want to stay here with Abuelita too!” Isabell was the one with the attitude.
“Please get in the car like a big girl and don’t make Mommy angry, sweetheart.” She crossed her arms against her chest and got in the car unassisted. It was funny that Liam was warning someone about my temper.
He stood back up and gave me a kiss.
“She is all you,” he said. “Stubborn, mouthy and full of attitude.”
“Lord help us,” I said.
“Have I told you lately that I want another baby?” he kissed me again.
“Four is enough,” I nodded.
“Really?” he looked at Henry.
“Liam, we can’t keep having kids because the other kids keep growing up. I promise you, they will all grow up.”
We had agreed to stop after Isabell was born. We thought three kids was plenty. He had his son and I had my girls. He still worked as much as ever at his company and I still ran my event planning business.
We had even decided that I would get permanently fixed so I couldn’t have any more children. Liam didn’t like condoms and I didn’t like being responsible for a pill or a patch or even a shot. But in order to have the surgery, I had to come off all my birth control two weeks before.
Seven days in to the two weeks, Liam and I both had a little too much to drink at a dinner party and got a little frisky in the car on the way home. When I went in for the surgery, Henry had already been conceived.
Four children. Liam and I were the parents of four children.
Liam Thomas Hastings 3rd
Catherine Elizabeth Hastings
Isabella Rose Hastings
Henry Wayne Hastings
When Liam took the bag off my head on board the yacht I never thought it would lead to four other lives.
After John drove away to take the kids to school, I turned back to face Liam.
“You are so beautiful,” he said and then kissed my cheek.
“You always say that,” I said.
“That’s because it’s true.”
The End
Thank you so much for reading the “Keeping her in the Dark” series. I hope you have loved Liam and Norah as much I have enjoyed writing them.
Please check out my other novels already out:
Lost at Sea
Lost in the World
Stranger on Route 35
Broken Crowne
Weekend in Vegas
In the pipeline for the future:
King of Kings trilogy
The Step Sister’s series
Chasing the Sun- follow up to Stranger on Route 35
Restoring Faith –follow up to Broken Crowne
Barely Legal
Another Weekend in Vegas – Brad and Taylor’s story
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Table of Contents
Prologue Norah
Liam
Chapter One Norah
Chapter Two Liam
Chapter Three Norah
Chapter Four Liam
Chapter Five Norah
Chapter Six Liam
Chapter Seven Norah
Chapter Eight Liam
Norah
Chapter Nine Liam
Norah
Chapter Ten Liam
Norah
Liam
Chapter Eleven Liam
Norah
Chapter Twelve Liam
Norah
Chapter Thirteen Norah
Liam
Chapter Fourteen Norah
Chapter Fifteen Liam
Chapter Sixteen Norah
Liam
Chapter Seventeen Norah
Liam
Chapter Eighteen Norah
Chapter Nineteen Liam
Chapter Twenty Norah
Chapter Twenty-One Liam
Norah
Chapter Twenty-Two Liam
Norah
Chapter Twenty-Three Liam
Norah
Chapter Twenty-Four Liam
Norah
Chapter Twenty-Five Liam
Norah
Chapter Twenty-Six Liam
Chapter Twenty-Seven Norah
Chapter Twenty-Eight Liam
Norah
Epilogue ~Three years later ~