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"It was just what the doctor ordered," she answered hih I’ll see you tomorrow," she told him, as she pushed the elevator button

The second the doors opened she stepped in and quickly pushed her floor’s nuh of relief, until Lucas ju you needed to speak to me about?" she decided to throw out to him "Or do you just follow all employees to their ho any patience for the new game he’d decided to play

"Stalker?" he questioned her "I happen to live here too A place?" he lifted his brow at her

"You live here?" she asked dumbfounded Why in the world would he live in the apartments when he could live anywhere he wanted? She looked at hi how to reply to this latest infor and she’d assu place because he did a lot of business there with the clients that came and went

"Yes," was all he said in reply to her question

"But ould you live in an apartment when you can have a house?" she let her curiosity overrule her need to not speak to him

"I prefer the apartment because I’ up a property," he said in explanation

She just snorted quietly Like he would have to worry about the upkeep anyway He would hire runt work He wasn’t the type of e and take it for a spin around the yard She shrugged and went back to ignoring him

The door opened on her floor and he stepped out with her That hen she figured out he was the one who lived in the other apartured that out in the few months she’d been there already? They worked and lived in the sa a few feet away fro to have an even worse ti how very close he was to her and yet how very far away Why couldn’t she get over the man?

She picked up her step and al difficulty with the lock, when he stepped up behind her and took the key His body brushed hers and she just about juainst her, if only for aagainst her the whole ti her miss his touch

The door finally opened and she slipped inside, turning with her hand out for the key He looked at her for athe door behind him Howquickly

"May I please use your bathroos" He didn’t even wait for an answer He just headed towards her bathroothen her willpower She could handle this She handled it fine at work Her apartment was no different, she tried to convince herself She really, really wanted a stiff drink right then

She rubbed her belly and smiled softly Don’t worry little one, ht She would just have to be strong

Lucas took a deep breath walking to the bathroom He could be civilized Maybe they could even start so in a co to try He couldn’t stop thinking about her so there had to be so That was farnew

Heshe would be after anything He s wrong about anything, not even to himself They would have a nice, reasonable adult conversation and then he could take her to bed without feeling badly about it

Lucas was feeling pretty good about things as he walked into the bathroom He finished up and then washed his face and hands in the sink He turned around to leave and that’s when his world stopped turning

He alnancy kit box What the hell? He’d never felt as scared in his life, as he reached for the box He looked inside and found the little stick There were two lines on it What did that mean?

He quickly read the back of the box and tinant! Had she planned the pregnancy? How could she have? He couldn’t even think as he stood there staring at the pregnancy test A few of his ex-girlfriends had tried to trap hinant and he’d deftly avoided thenant the one and only tirier with her He kneasn’t logical but he couldn’t be logical at that iving the with it but none had succeeded, until now Well, I better get out there to the future Mrs

Anderson, he thought bitterly Lucas took a few extraback out to her

A roorateful for because he was having a heck of a tiht back There are a couple of phone calls I need to h her front door He didn’t look her way to see her face

"I need to speak with my father, please?" Lucas asked without any preah to his father a minute later

"Hello son, how are you?"