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"Congratulations," she said again, tears close enough again that she knew she had to get out of there Not just from their bedroom, but out of the house, away fro she’d told herself she never wanted, but so desperately did

"I need to get back to the dogs Zach, you should stay I’ll watch Cuddles as long as you need me to"

She practically broke into a run as she fled the bedroos, maybe even his mother, say her name as sheout sos, she didn’t stop to acknowledge theain

She couldn’t let Sophie look at her so sweetly and say they were all really hoping for a normal sister-in-law

She couldn’t let herself fall deeper into the quicksand that she should have been sh to keep out of in the first place

Zach had driven them here in one of the dozen cars he seee, but a ould do her good, would help her clear her head and figure out what the heck rong with her

Only, she already knew she could walk all day and all night for the next year and never be able to erase the picture of Zach with the baby in his ar to do it the traditional way, she had always planned to have children of her own Not only because she wouldn’t dare risk trusting a e a lifetime to him, but also because she couldn’t possibly risk her children’s hearts either, the way her mother had risked hers

But as soon as she’d seen Zach and the baby, when she’d witnessed the complete adoration, the pure, unconditional love in his eyesshe’d stupidly wanted that dream family With him

Because she’d fallen in l--

No

God, no

Horrified by what she’d al hands on her waist, pulling her against him out on the sidewalk Of course, her body had to betray her by instinctively curling into his heat