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I look up into his gorgeous face and take a deep breath, steadying myself to finish the story

"So, the doctor toldI am I have a picture

I’ll show you in a minute"

"Okay," he whispers

"After the doctor left, Jules was flipping through channels on the TV in the rooossip show, and that’s when I saw you" I try to release his hand so I can stand and pace, but he holds on tight

"Don’t go Finish the story"

"My world fell apart I hated seeing those pictures,inat her…" "

"I know, but it didn’t look like nothing, and then I learned that you’d been engaged to her, and I was hormonal and scared and sick and I just wanted to be in your arms"

"Come up here"

I lie back down next to him and he cradles me close to him

"When I couldn’t reach you yesterday it s It’s not like you to not respond or answer your phone"

"At first I didn’t knohat to say, and then I was ht back to Seattle and went straight to your place, and you know the rest"

"I’s I said"

"Me too"

"Luke, I don’t want you anywhere near that woman I don’t want you to ith her"

"I called her after I left your place last night and told her that I was going with soain I’ her e left the restaurant I certainly didn’t kiss her I probably hugged her goodbye, but it didn’t , but the rags always twist things to look the way they want the you"

"So," Luke says and I tilta baby"

He smiles, widely, and just looks so… proud of hiet married sooner rather than later"

"Luke, I don’t want you to feel like you have to ht there I asked you to nant"

"I know, but…"

"No buts Natalie, I love you soIt is soon, sooner than I would have preferred, but a baby is never a bad thing You’re going to be a fantastic mom"

I didn’t know I could cry so much in one day More tears flow I’m relieved and happy and so in love with this beautiful man

He leans down and rubs his nose across entle way that makes me swoon "I love you, baby"

"I love you too"

"Oh, God, Natalie the poor man has almost been killed Must youfull of food She plants her hands on her hips and shakes her head

"Don’t be a brat, Jules" I sit up and start unloading Luke’s food for hiht soives Jules a wide suys"

Jules walks to hi at both of us