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“I can already picture it,” he explained. “I’ll be bouncing Daniel Jr. on my knee, telling him the day he was conceived was the day I first told you I loved you. It’s kind of romantic, don’t you think?”
I stared at him.
“Please think so,” he said. “It’s the best I’ve got.”
My heart pounded as I tried to find the words. “There’s not going to be a Daniel Jr.”
“What?” he asked, looking genuinely disappointed.
“I didn’t go through with it.”
“What do you mean you didn’t go through with it?” he asked. “I went to the clinic. They said you were there this morning.”
“I didn’t go through with it,” I repeated, my throat closing up at having to say the words aloud, at having to hear them in my own voice.
Finn’s brows crashed together. “Why?”
I shrugged. “Because I don’t want Daniel’s Boston crème.”
He shook his head like he didn’t understand.
“And for the record, I don’t want twenty babies by twenty different men either.”
“What do you want?” he asked, dipping his head as he waited for my answer.
I was frozen in place, as shaken from his candor as I was afraid of my own.
“Maeve.” His large hands gripped my shoulders. “What do you want?”
“You,” I said, searching his gaze. “I want you.”
His jaw clenched at my words.
“If I’m going to be uncomfortable for nine months and turn my life upside down, I want it to be because I made a baby with you.”
His eyes took on a glassy shine. “Really?”
Seeing him upset made my own tear ducts twitch. “I’m sorry,” I said as one escaped down my cheek. “I know that’s not what you want.”
“Are you crazy?” He pulled me into his arms. “Of course that’s what I want.”
I hugged him back, melting against his strong chest and breathing in his masculine scent in the hope that it might calm the frenzied energy inside me. “You’re not just saying that, are you?”
The rumble of his laugh rocked my whole body. “Maeve—” He straightened his arms out to look at me.
“Because guys will say anything for sex.”
“I want more than sex,” he said, fixing his gaze on mine. “And I want more than friendship.”
I bit the inside of my lip.
“I want it all,” he said. “With you.”
I held my breath and hung on his words, the steadiness in his voice making me feel rooted and safe.
“You’re everything I never knew I wanted.”
I pressed my lips together until a smile broke them apart, the doubts that had been swirling through me finally laid to rest. “I feel the same.”
