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Dray Carlisle reached to switch on a bedside lamp.

“Yes,” she confirmed as light filled the darkness. “Me.”

“I don’t believe it. What are you doing here?”

“Right at the moment, trying to get Ellie back to sleep,” she responded as the baby’s cries escalated. “Unless you’d like to do it? In which case, could I suggest a slightly less aggressive tone?”

She offered the baby to him, but it was purely a mocking gesture.

His eyes bored into her as he responded, “Very funny…I’ll wait outside.”

“If that’s what you want.” Cass’s tone was dismissive.

“No, what I want,” he growled back, “is to go to bed.”

Cass shrugged. She wasn’t stopping him.

“Don’t worry, that wasn’t a proposition.”

“I wasn’t worried,” she returned sharply.

It backfired, however, as he paused briefly to murmur, “Now, that is interesting.”