Chapter 51

• **GEORGE COLLINS**
• I always knew that Claire wouldn’t be able to resist for long. Sure, she was stubborn, always had been, but blocking my messages? That was just a desperate attempt to avoid the inevitable. I knew Claire better than she knew herself. She could pretend to be with Alexis, that she wanted a future with him, but deep down, she knew I was the right man for her. And that baby? Oh, it only made everything clearer. We were meant to be together, and nothing—not Alexis, not her ridiculous pride—was going to stop that.
• In the past few days, I’d been more vigilant. Claire was getting more distant, but I knew where she was, who she was with. I’d figured out her routine, the places she frequented. She couldn’t block me out of her life, not when we had something so important between us.