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He looked at her broodingly and she lanced away

This happened a lot less than she had fearedthis flipping over of her heart when their eyes when she happened to see soaze that spoke of other stuffnot just the normal, casual, comfortable stuff that passed between them from day to day

It was like looking down into a clear strea so fast and so deep that they didn’t ruffle the callittered and seduced and held her temporarily captive

Dry- that he wouldn’t stand there, stretching, so that his shirt tugged free fro a sliver of bronzed flat belly that teers

‘I know’ Her breath hitched in her throat ‘Every tio into labour—even though the midwife’s told me a hundred times that it’s only labour if I can ti that feels like a contraction every other day doesn’t count’

‘You’d be forgiven for getting panicky—especially in light of that scarenot to mention the fact that the baby’s due any day now’

‘I know It’s come round so quickly sincesince’

‘Since you sprang it on me?’

His voice was low and serious, and for soh her because this was as serious as he had been since Well, since he had moved in

The intiht on her It was pitch-black outside Dinner had been eaten, dishes stacked in the dishwasher, and she was a handful of io in the sitting room He would resu the night or the early hours of the

Winter was all around them The homely warmth of the house kept it at bay, but as he continued to look at her she are of the fact that, yes, there really were only the two of them in this place Ex-lovers who had created a baby between them Herself and the man she was compelled to look at, driven to want