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Pulling the blanket over herself, Michelle shook her head. “Not maybe. One hundred percent definitely.”
He rose from the bed and crossed his arms over his chest. Time to get real. “We were only together a few times. What makes you think I’m the father?”
“Because you’re the only man I’ve had sex with. Ever.”
“What? No. No way that’s true.”
“Why? Because I was so great in the sack? You and I both know I wasn’t. I didn’t have a clue what to do. You’re the only reason it was any good, because youdoknow what you’re doing. Boy, do you know what you’re doing.”
He backed away, details from their night together flooding his mind. Stuff she’d said that he’d clearly mistaken to mean other things.
I don’t have much experience with men.He’d assumed she’d meant she hadn’t slept with many guys, not that she was a virgin.
I’ve never done this before.He’d assumed she’d never spontaneously hooked up with a stranger, not that she’d never had sex.
I didn’t expect to come the first time.He’d assumed she’d only been with selfish assholes or losers who didn’t take the time to deliver the big O the first time around, not that she’d been talking about her first time ever.
“Assuming you’re telling me the truth—”
“I am.”
“Why didn’t you tell me you were a virgin?”
“I didn’t want it to spook you out of having sex with me.”
This could not be happening. Only it was, and it had. “Why didn’t you tell me to use a condom?”
“Same reason.”
“Was I that much of a prick?” No reply needed, he knew he had been. And not only with Michelle.
“You were the opposite of a prick, Sam. You were charming and friendly and funny. And hot, of course. That’s why I chose you to do it.”
After his run as a master player, he had no business feeling used. Tell that to his feelings. “So, you went to a sports nutrition convention looking for somebody to secretly take your virginity?”
“No, I went because my boss sent me to source new products for the gym. Then I met you and decided to get rid of that pesky V-card, so that when I met somebody I wanted to really date, I wouldn’t break it off because I was scared to go further than second base, like I had every other time.”
He looked across the room, to the nurse holding a swaddled newborn. A nurse who’d obviously overheard every word of the conversation and didn’t want to interrupt. Couldn’t say he blamed her.
Time to get to the end of it. “Maybe your daughter is from the next guy you dated.”
Michelle shook her head. “There was no next guy. My cycle has always been regular like a Swiss timepiece. I knew I was pregnant before I had a chance to meet anybody else who interested me. That baby isyourdaughter, Sam.”
If she was telling the truth… “I’m not calling you a liar, but I’d like a test, to be sure.”
“I don’t blame you and you can get all the tests you want. They’re all going to tell you the same thing. But, there’s something else you need to know, before you go forward with the paternity test.”
“Okay.” He’d hear her out, but honestly, what more could there possibly be?
“I’m not keeping the baby.” She glanced at the nurse, then met Sam’s eyes again. “That’s why they haven’t brought her over yet. I told them I don’t want to hold the baby.”
“What?”
“I’m twenty-two. I don’t want to be an unwed parent and I don’t want to marry somebody just because we combined DNA. I also don’t believe in abortion, so here we are. As her other biological parent, you can take full custody of her when she’s released from the hospital. You won’t be able to come after me for any sort of support because I’m signing away all parental rights. If you don’t want her, there’s no point in having the paternity test, because she’ll be adopted by another family. It’s already been arranged.”
He half-staggered to the nearest chair. Fell into it and scrubbed his hand over his head.
“You look good with hair, by the way. I wouldn’t have picked you to have sex if you’d had hair when I met you, but it looks nice.”
