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Scarlet couldn’t believe what she was hearing ‘You got him drunk!’

‘But not incapable Please don’t look at me like that, Scarlet, it’s not like I raped the ot the iet That hy he’d been drinking in the first place…so, I think’

‘But he wasn’t a stranger’

‘I didn’t want just anybody to be nantly ‘I did my research beforehand’

‘How long had you been planning to do this, Abby?’

‘Let’s just say this wasn’t an iht and settle down My biological clock was ticking away I thought about artificial inseet to choose the father that way, and I got pregnant straight off, the first time, which is just as well, because I doubt if…so it must have been meant to be, don’t you think, Scarlet?’ she asked wistfully

Scarlet felt unable under the circuht and so ood idea to tell the father?’

‘God, no, a baby would scare the pants off hi them off the first tiruesome details’

‘But a baby needs a father’

‘You’re thinking about inherited weaknesses…’

‘Not specifically,’ Scarlet said weakly

‘No worries there, the guy is about as genetically perfect as is possible When I drew up my list—’

‘You had a list?’

‘Well, it seeical, and he was streets ahead of the rest,’ Abby revealed, apparently oblivious that she was saying anything out of the ordinary ‘His faly healthy and live until a ripe old age’p????e

‘You see,’ Scarlet responded weakly

‘You don’t approve, do you, Scarlet? I knew you wouldn’t but I was desperate You have no idea how badly I wanted this baby’