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She swallowed tightly. “It was just one time . . . ”
“Twice. ”
“It ripped twice?” Her eyes widened as she grappled to understand what he was saying.
His lips tilted in a strange half smile. “No. I just didn’t bother with one the second time. ” He lifted his coffee mug and sipped as though they were talking about nothing more important than the weather.
She was in shock. There was no other explanation for it. Janey felt her lips go numb, but she felt a wild, impossible surge of excitement racing through her. She did a fast mental calculation and knew, she knew the chances of her becoming pregnant couldn’t be any higher than right now.
She licked her lips nervously. “Was it my fault?”
She had rolled the condom onto his heavy erection. She had loved doing it, but it wasn’t as though she had any experience at it.
His brows lifted. “How could it have been your fault?”
“Well. ” She swallowed tightly, feeling the blush burning across her cheeks as she lowered her eyes to her coffee. “I put it on you. ”
“It wasn’t your fault. ”
Was there a vein of amusement in his voice? She couldn’t lift her eyes to see
. Confusion jumbled through her mind. She hadn’t expected that. She wasn’t certain what he wanted her to say or what she was supposed to feel. She had a feeling this hard surge of joy, anticipation, wasn’t it.
“It doesn’t change anything. ” She lifted the cup of coffee and sipped at it, ignoring the heavy silence that
filled the room then.
“Excuse me, but I could have sworn you just said it didn’t change anything,” he stated, his voice dropping, lowering.
Janey forced herself to lift her gaze, to meet his hard, flinty one.
“That’s exactly what I said. If I’m pregnant, I’ll deal with it. ”
“And how exactly will you deal with it?” His lips thinned. “You wouldn’t consider getting rid of my baby, would you, Janey?”
Shock raced headlong through her. She stared back at him for a moment in disbelief. It took critical seconds for the accusation to fire inside her brain and disbelief to burn away beneath anger.
Cold, brittle mockery curled at her lips. “Your opinion of me sucks, Alex. ” She pushed back from the table, abandoning her sweet breakfast as anger curled through her. “No. For your information, I’d never consider harming our child. ”
The accusation hurt. It sliced through her soul with a ragged edge and left her bleeding, aching in pain.
She had forgotten; she had let herself forget to hold back with Alex. She had slipped up last night.
Realizing she was in love with a man softened a woman. Made her weak.
“Good. Then I’ll talk to Natches tonight. We can get married in the morning after securing the license at the courthouse. ”
He crossed his arms over his chest and stared back at her coolly. None of his emotions showed; she had no idea, one way or the other, what he even thought about a child.
Janey looked at the cup of coffee, wondering for one insane moment if it had been drugged. Or if Alex had just lost his ever-lovin’ mind.
“No,” she finally said carefully. “We’re not getting married. ”
This was happening too fast. Too many emotions were crowding inside her now, racing through her brain, making it impossible to make sense of everything.
For one moment, wild, impossible joy had filled her. Alex wanted to marry her? She could keep him, hold him close to her. For how long? Until he realized the cost of marrying her? A woman everyone in the county wanted to convict as a traitor? How long would it take him to hate her?
“Janey. ” He came out of his seat, his finger pressing into the top of the table, so commanding, so dominating. It was equally sexy and irritating. “I won’t allow my baby to be raised without me. Period.
