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“How can you ever think I’d put a woman carrying my blood on the streets?” He looks down. “Because of Cormac. I’m so fucking sorry.”
“I just don’t know how to be a mother yet. How will I be able to balance everything, especially when the baby comes?”
“I know it feels impossible, and at first, you don’t have to. You’re not expected to do it all alone.”
“Will you eventually hire another nanny?”
“With you here, I was thinking I might not need to. Sophie just needs to be put on the bus, and taken off, given a snack, sat down to do homework, and then I get home.” He runs a hand through his hair. “It’s also second grade, not law school.”
He spends the next few minutes telling me about his schedule and the rundown for Sophie, ending with the caveat: It’s all written on a legal pad in the kitchen.
“Are you sure you want me to take care of Sophie?”
“You’ve proven yourself responsible. I trust you.” Darragh brushes my cheek. “When the baby is born, I’ll figure something out as far as getting someone to help you. I have time off coming to me. I’ll be here to get Sophie to and from school. If anything, when she’s home, she can help you.”
That makes me smile.
“Darragh, I’m scared,” I finally voice and feel tears leaking from my eyes. “I don’t know if I can do this. All of this.”
“You can do it,” he whispers, kissing me. “You’re tough Russian stock!”
I laugh through my tears.
“We’re gonna do this together.” He kisses me. “You won’t be alone. I’m here. Let’s take everything one day at a time. I’ll call the school on my way to work tomorrow and tell them you’ll be at her bus stop.” He exhales. “I need to use Ana Michaels, don’t I?”
“I would if I were you.”
We already registered me at the hospital with that name and that I’m uninsured. When the more-than-eager administrator offered to find state-run insurance for me, Darragh spoke up and said he’d pay all the bills out of pocket.
“What about Sophie?” I ask, a thought nagging at me.
“As far as?”
“Us?”
Acknowledging we are falling for each other rearranges the air around us.
“I have to end my marriage.” Darragh rolls onto his back. “Sophie needs to deal with that first.”
“Will Ginnifer come home?”
“I doubt it,” he scoffs.
“And she has no interest in seeing Sophie?” I fight the anger in my voice.
“Sophie doesn’t remember us together like that.” The pain in Darragh’s face guts me.
I’ve felt so alone in this pregnancy. Cormac dumped his seed inside me and saw me as a burden. Darragh looks at me like I’m precious.
And the baby is related to Sophie. It hits me strong, and takes my breath away. No. I don’t want to leave. I belong right here.
“I find this so fucking sexy.” Darragh runs his hands along my stomach, possession in his eyes.
“Mmmm. I’ve felt so big and in the way.”
“Not in the way,” he says, kissing my mouth. “Never. Now turn around. I’ll remind you how I feel about you.”
He pulls my ass against his groin, but lifts my leg to slide into me from behind. His cock buries so deep and for a second, I don’t feel like the baby is between us.
