“Yes, I can. Trust me, Piper. It is not even a possibility.” Of all the things he’d been considering over her week-long silence, that was not one of them.
“Do you think there is even a tiny chance that someday you might fall in love with me?” She buried her face against his chest and waited for his answer.
He wanted to lie; it would make things so much easier, but he could not. “If I was capable of falling in love, I already would have.”
“You really believe that?”
“Absolutely.”
Her head tilted back so he could see her glare. “Everyone is capable of love.”
“That is debatable.”
“Yes, I guess it is.” She grimaced. “There are certainly people that make a great case for that point of view anyway. I never considered you one of them, however.”
He could not help that. He shrugged. “What else scares you?”
“Oh, the usual, what will happen to my business, what if I lose the baby, what if I’m a terrible mother, am I going to turn into a whale, can I learn Greek?” Her litany of worries came out in a voice garbled by suppressed tears he did not know what to do about.
going to marry me.” Why else
If I don’t marry you, we’ll have to share custody and I’m not naive enough to think you are going to settle for being a weekend dad. You’ll fight for at least equal custody, if not
was shocked. She realized that.
try to deny
“I wasn’t going to.”
trembled, but she blinked away the incipient moisture in her troubled blue
“I agree.”
custody issue wasn’t even the most
could have worried
the certainty that if I didn’t marry you, one day you would marry someone else and build a whole family
bothers you?” he asked, just to clarify. She had left him without any sort
course it does. I
inside his chest stuttered. “You love
“Yes.”
friend.” He attempted to
wrapped her arms around his neck and shook her head, those terrifying tears of hers spilling over now. “No, not like a
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