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Nikki propped a hip against the vanity in the bathroom “A Freudian slip of sorts?”

He stared a bit harder at her “As in, I subconsciously want to knock you up?”

She couldn’t help but grin at his flippant tery He’d used it on purpose Because this was actually very serious business they were discussing Their own risky territory

She reasoned, “You intiht find a new professional home on the ops campus In DC Where do you live, Damen?”

His jaw clenched for a moment “In DC”

“And your niece, whom you want me to meet? Where does she live?”

“With me”

“In DC”

“Her parents passed a while back My one”

Obviously, there was ical trauma wrapped around all of that

Nikki stayed the current course, however, saying, “I’d certainly avoid disaster zones if I were pregnant”

Now, his gaze narrowed on her “I did not intentionally—”

“I don’t believe you did, either,” she was quick to interject “Using a condo on my mind as well I would like to believe that, with anyone else, I would have immediately insisted But with you, I ept away and…that’s not even an excuse I didn’t want you to use a condom”

He took a step closer to her, still staring into her eyes “How deeper into each other are we getting here, Doc?”

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