“You’ve mentioned that point several times.”
“Have I?”
“Yes.”
“I’m sorry,” she apologized distractedly.
“Are you that disturbed by the idea of being pregnant with my child?”
“We’ve already covered this ground.”
“Then by the prospect of being pregnant at all?” He slid a sidelong glance at her before looking back at the road.
“I’m building a business. Having a baby will change a lot of things, including how much time I can spend on work.” It was the only concern she was willing to voice right this second. She’d been on an emotional thrill ride since discovering the loss of her patch. Fear competed with hope and illicit joy at the prospect in equal measure.
“And this worries you?”
“A little,” she admitted. “I’m willing to rearrange my priorities though. Any child of mine will not pay for the choices of its parents.”
“As you felt you paid for yours.” He saw immediately her determination to give her child everything she felt she’d missed out on.
“To an extent, but even more so, as you paid for yours.”
there.”
asking
“That is good.”
cried out on an
“What?”
other. We were closer than we’d ever been
being pregnant with my child will not
much.” So, maybe
“What do you mean?”
dumb. It’s unbecoming, not
into that zone she’d come to recognize as his anger. The chill-factor was
tears she couldn’t even name the exact reason for.
“Thank you.”
way, we stopped being merely friends with benefits. I mean, for
term lovers?” he
would be a start.” Not everything she wanted,
are never permanent in my life.” Worry crept back into his
“Make me the exception.”
He sighed. “Though if you are
wanted was to be in his life by default. The last thing was to be out of his life completely, which said what about her plans to walk away from what they had before she got even more hurt? “I don’t want it to be that
we want is not always
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