“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.”

cannot disagree there.” He

asking you

“That is good.”

she cried out on an explosive

“What?”

each other. We were closer than

friends,” he said, frowning. “You being pregnant with my child will

that much.” So, maybe she did

“What do you mean?”

unbecoming, not to mention lacking in

anything.” He sounded offended, his voice sliding into that zone she’d come to recognize as his anger. The

couldn’t even name the exact reason for. “I don’t mean to

“Thank you.”

along the way, we stopped being merely friends with

term lovers?” he

everything she

Worry crept back into his voice, letting her know this

“Make me the exception.”

that.” He sighed. “Though if you are pregnant, neither of us will have

to be out of his life completely, which said what about her plans to walk away from what they had before

not

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