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"It's too late, Chase"
"What do you e to his voice Lawyers had an annoying habit of dragging out the details, especially for their friends
"The procedure took Six o"
"What! Youaround with my baby inside her and I've never laid eyes on her?"
"That about sums it up"
Chase Madison shielded his eyes froh his officeand rubbed his temples Janis had done this He just knew it "God, if Janis wasn't already dead, I'd kill her"
"Oh, it gets better"
Chase closed his eyes, ta down his temper "Let's have it"
"She believes you're nothing but a sper nasty twisted inside Chase just then "And she isn't going to let you near this child, nor give you the time of day"
"We'll just see about that"
Chase hung up the phone and sank into the nearest chair, cradling his aching head in his hands A sperrand joke of the century, now he felt as if Janis were taking digs fro her He'd done that brieflyhe had left for her Now he felt only anger and resentet back at him She'd had access, and God knows she'd had ht, was beyond even her This was vicious
It always came back to kids He wanted them She couldn't have any It hadn't mattered to him at the time He just wanted to be a father Anybody's father He wanted to feel the sweet energy kids gave, their fascination for discovery, wanted to love them and feel loved With secret dreao the adoption route—a seven-year wait for a newborn But it was Janis, as administrator for the clinic, who'd introduced the possibility of a surrogate mother
Chase hadn't liked the idea of a strange wo his child by artificial insemination Even the sound of it was clinically inancy and childbirth only to relinquish her rights to her baby But Janis had convinced him it was reasonable Persuaded him with the fact that the child would at least have Chase's blood in his veins
You let her convince you, his conscience niggled He'd wanted a child that badly, yet still he'd dragged his heels He re a little sterilized roo at the specimen cup in his hand, the leather office couch, the stack of video tapes on the TV/VCR Then he'd dragged Janis in with hi him, as he recalled