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“No use speculating” Gabe joined her, took one of her hands and kneaded her fingers That si between them Could he feel it, too? “The doctor says she could have years”

“Or ood shape Darlene see You can hear the worry in her voice, see it in her eyes She’s scared for her child”

“There’s a real chance Macy’s going to need a family, Brooke, to be there for her if the worst happens”

Macy could very well beco after Macy as if we’re relatives of so for an adoptive fahed “Darlene knows other people in Clayton better than she knows you or me Why us? Why does she seehter?”

“There’s no accounting for matters of the heart, Brooke, and the care of her child is certainly a matter of the heart”

“True” Still, the whole issue see

“You could take her,” he said, attention riveted on the paler

Brooke’s heart bumped She pulled her hand away “Me? You mean the way Arabella took in Jasmine?”

“No, not exactly” He took his tiht words “I ive her a family”

“But she needs a mother and a father”

“That’s what I was thinking” On the concrete picnic bench, he shifted closer, tilted her chin, probed her gaze with his “AJ needs a mother and a father, too”

Brooke’s pulse kicked into overdrive What was going on here? “He has a great dad”

“He needs a etic mother who loves him the way he loves her”

Convinced her heart was about to fly fro Did he ht heher to be AJ’s mother, what about love? What about the two of them? She wanted to be more to Gabe Wesson than a mother to his son She wanted to be his forever

She opened her mouth to tell him exactly that when his cell phone chirped