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ant you to leave me.”

“Leave you? What the hell are you talking about?” He wiped the tears from her eyes and looked at her imploringly. “Kate, just tell me what they found.”

“I’m…” She sucked in a breath and gazed up at him. “I’m pregnant.”

He froze, sure he’d heard her wrong. “You’re what?”

“I’m pregnant.” Then more tears flooded from her eyes.

“Pregnant, as in, you’re going to be a mother?”

She nodded.

“Kate, don’t you want to have a baby?”

She nodded some more. “More than anything.”

He sucked in a breath. “Okay, then, isn’t that good?”

“No, because you don’t want a baby.”

“I don’t?”

She gazed up at him with wide eyes. “Do you?”

Confusion swirled through him and combined with the fear that she was dreadfully ill, the elation that she was with child, which he couldn’t quite allow to surface, and the complete lack of understanding at her reaction.

He waved his hands back and forth. “Okay, let’s just focus for a minute. You’re going to have a baby,” he said in wonder.

She nodded and his mouth turned up in an almost painful grin as he released his fear of something being wrong and allowed the good news to seep in. “And I’m going to be a father.”

She nodded again.

“Oh, Matt, I know you didn’t want to have a baby, but the doctor said this can happen sometimes. Even on birth control.”

He took her hands. “Kate, whatever gave you the idea that I didn’t want to have a baby?”

She pursed her lips. “When you forgot to wear a condom that time—before you knew I was on birth control. You said you didn’t want a pregnancy to be the result. It seemed really important to you.”

He laughed and pulled her in for a big kiss. “No, Kate, that was just because I didn’t believe we could be together, even though I desperately wanted us to be.” He stroked her hair back from her face. “And you know how much I want you. I just didn’t want to put you through that … having a baby with a man you didn’t love. Who wasn’t, and could never be, your husband.” His smile broadened. “But all that changed.”

He kissed her again, then gazed deeply into her shimmering eyes. “I love you so much. And having a baby with you is one of the biggest joys I could ever experience.”

Her eyes filled with tears again. “Oh, Matt. I love you so much.”

She wrapped her arms around him and kissed him. Her soft lips moved sweetly on his.

As he held her, their bodies pressed tightly together, her loving kiss turned more passionate, and she plunged her tongue deep into his mouth and swirled.

“Oh, God, Matt. I’m so turned on.” She began tugging on his robe, then pulling it open.

His cock swelled at the feel of her hands stroking over his chest, then tweaking his nipples.

God, he could tell this was going to be a long, chaotic pregnancy.

And he was going to enjoy every second of it.