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The snarl of her upper lip answers myuncertainty.
“You brought a freaking pregnancy test?” she shrieks. “Have you lost your fuckingmind?”
A reaction. Finally, I getsomethingfromher.
Hudson warned me she’d go Muhammad Ali on my ass when she saw the test, but as I mentioned before, my brain isn’t functioning at itsfinest.
I stumble forward when Lauren pushes my back to gain myattention.
She signals between Willow and me. “Why would you assume the baby is yours if she’s pregnant?” Her hand flies to her mouth. “Holy mother of God, you two arebanging?”
“No!” Willow yells, as if the thought horrifiesher.
That puts a damper on a man’sego.
I grit my teeth. This isn’t a conversation I want to conduct in front of my baby sister. “Lauren, some privacy,please.”
She scrunches up her nose. “In case you’ve failed to notice, this is my apartment. Where do you expect me to go at three in themorning?”
“Yourbedroom.”
She rolls her eyes. “Whatever. Yousuck.”
“And be sure to put on earplugs,” I call out to her as she heads down thehallway.
She twists around on her heels with a smirk. “And miss thisconversation?”
I give her a look, one that tells her I’m not fucking around, but that only grants me another eye roll. Her bedroom door slams shut, and I know she’s not going for herearplugs.
The air isheavy.
I’m staring atWillow.
She’s staring atme.
A scarlet flush rides up her highcheekbones.
I’ve never had a staring contest last solong.
Willow has the face of an angel with light freckles scattered along her nose and cheeks. Her personality-matching fire-red hair is pulled back into a ponytail with loose strands flying in every direction. I’ve never had one negative thought about her until tonight. She has a huge heart and bends over backward to help others, often putting them before herself. She smiles as if she’s never been hurt, but I know she has from the many times I saw her dip out of rooms with tears in her eyes after an argument with her ex-boyfriend. She acts hard but is asoftie.
She’s also cautious with letting people in. This is going to be achallenge.
“Put that pregnancy test away before I shove it up your ass.” Her cold tone startlesme.
It takes me a few attempts before I manage to push it back into my pocket. She flinches when I move in closer and drop to my knees in front of her. Pain coats my throat as I clearit.
“If you’re pregnant,” I say, blowing out a breath. It takes me a second to continue. “If you’re pregnant and I’m the father, we need to come up with aplan.”
There.
That’s me stepping up and being a man even though I want nothing more than to throw myself out the window. No matter how broken I am, no matter what hell I’m going through, I could never turn my back on mychild.
Willow shakes her head, swatting her hand through the air, as if dismissing what I said. “Dallas, don’t worry about this, okay? You’re going through a lot. I can do this on myown.”
“If there’s one certainty I have for you, it’s that, that’s not fucking happening, do you hearme?”
She sighs, rubbing her forehead. “Fuck.” An annoyed laugh leaves her full pink lips. “You storm over here at the ass crack of dawn after one of the most exhausting days of my life and demand I make a plan?” She snorts. “That’s not what’s happening right now,do you hear me?” She lies back down on the couch and pulls the blanket up her body. “I’m going to sleep, and you can go back to doing whatever it is you were doing … as long as it’s not drunkenly waking up the entire building while waving pregnancy tests through theair.”
