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Оглавление“Your brother—the baby’s father—washed his hands of the entire problem.”
Nora’s voice rose slightly. “Are you aware that he even suggested abortion?”
Jake nodded. “I am. Isabel’s phone call threw him for quite a loop. That doesn’t excuse him, but I know he came to regret that suggestion almost immediately after he made it.”
“And yet you’re the one who’s come to her, when it should be him—”
“My brother’s dead, Miss Holloway: He died a few days after he received the phone call.”
“I’m sorry. I didn’t know.”
“I sat by my brother’s hospital bed for almost two days. He wanted to find Isabel and tell her he’d made a huge mistake, There’s no doubt in my mind he would have married her and given his son a name....” Jake expelled a long sigh. “Toward the end, when he knew... he asked me to make sure she and the baby were okay. Of course, everything’s changed now.”
Nora’s heart cramped suddenly. “What do you mean?”
Jake gave her a hard, level look. ‘I’m sorry, but I can’t let you adopt my brother’s baby.”
