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“Xander, is it all right if I come in?”

“U on”

So crashed to the floor

That was it She was going to find out as going on She grasped the doorknob but found it locked Really?

She knocked again “Xander, is everything all right?”

There was a slight pause “Yeah It’s fine”

It? What was the it he was referring to?

“Are you sure?”

“I’ll be out in ain the oven”

Dinner? Her sto tiain, she realized that now, being pregnant, she couldn’t let work be her ular meals

And that wasn’t the only change this baby would bring to her life She wondered just how big a role Xander would play in their lives Would he want to have their child every other weekend? Or would he take a ht didn’t please her Their child deserved to have both an active ree?

Xander sighed

Putting together baby furniture was ined And the instructions e because he’d done what they’d said five ti table fully assembled If the furniture was this difficult, he didn’t even want to iood parent

It made him think of his parents With distance and a better perspective, he was beginning to think that he’d been too hard on theed hirandfather hadn’t been easy on his father So his father had done what he knew

So what did Xander know about being a father? Would he repeat his father’s mistakes? Could he do it different? Should he even try?

The questions came one after the other, but the answers didn’t come as easily However, he couldn’t stand around in his roolanced around at the ripped-open boxes and the furniture partially assembled Maybe he should have waited to start this project when he was fully awake

He turned his back on the rasped the doorknob, releasing the lock He opened it cautiously just in case Lea was lingering in the hallway, but she’d decided to move on