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Piper let out a low, hue she could find, she looked him in the eye “Ty is the result”

Piper watched as her words sank in and the color faded froh bloodless lips, the words rough “I always use condoms”

“You did that night, too,” Piper admitted “I can’t explain how it happened, but he’s yours”

“He can’t be!”

“Oh, for God’s sake! He has your eyes, your chin, your face, your build He has a dimple in his butt, just like you do He has your body, your hands, your smile He is a carbon copy of you!” Piper cried

“He’s not He can’t be”

She wasn’t going to try to convince hier”

Jaeger gripped the back of the couch and looked at her, his eyes bleak “Why didn’t you tell me? Why did you keep this from me?”

“After Milan, I tried to tell you I was pregnant, Jaeger, but I couldn’t reach you! I was kicked out of Ballantyne and Company and put on the kooks and crazies list!” Piper retorted “We reconnected a week ago When, exactly, was I supposed to blurt this out? While ere discussing the stones, after sex, before sex?”

“Yes!”

“I started to tell you today, at the park, but you had just told ame with your brother, a ball to attend,” Piper said, her voice bitter “I needed tis to do”

“I would’ve blown off both if you’d said it was ier countered

“I didn’t want you to reject Ty” There, she’d said it

“I freely adiven you no reason to think I would reject him!”

“Jaeger, for years you’ve been telling anyone with a microphone that you’re not cut out to be a husband or a father I believed that! I believed you!”

“You still should’ve told er said, his voice hard and stubborn