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Quinn’s sound of exasperation forced her to refocus ‘Why don’t you tell enta?’

Quinn aiting for answers and she had none This is a dream, she wanted to blurt out I’nancy was a shock to e

‘A shock to you?’ Quinn queried ‘This is a baby we’re talking about How can you talk about the creation of a child as a shock and expect me to be reassured?’

‘Because I can handle it’

‘You can handle it,’ Quinn repeated angrily ‘This is enta Do you seriously expect me to take a back seat and leave every decision to you?’

She hadn’t factored Quinn wanting a child into her thinking She hadn’t thought about shared responsibility at all

‘What gives you the right to do this on your own?’

She knew no other way Since forever it had been Dad and her—the two of thele-parent family ‘I love my baby,’ she said sis were impossible to lie about or to hide

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

IT WAS the first tienta had heard Quinn so iht for his family and stand firm as a rock in the face of any difficult decision Under any normal circumstances, that was just the kind of father she would want for her child But she couldn’t ination and dreams

‘Have you nothing to say?’ he said sharply ‘Why is that, Magenta? Have you got what you ca to leave now and take our child?’

‘Please don’t ly Quinn’

‘It is what it is,’ he rapped ‘A woht I could trust—a woman I care about—cannot be honest with le woed for a child, o to?’

‘Don’t!’ Of course she had heard ofused as sper such a thing herself had never occurred to her ‘I could never be so cold-blooded’ And when Quinn made a sound of conte you?’

‘You love me?’

The tone of his voice chilled her to the bone ‘Yes, I do’

‘Then your idea of love and ’

‘I love you and our baby’