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“YOU’RE out of your mind!”

Was she? Parked in the ferry lineup half an hour later, Lacey could still hardly believe she’d made the offer. And recalling the incredulous expression on Dermid’s face, she knew he’d felt exactly the same. But then he’d started to laugh, harshly, and that had let her know, more than anything else could, just how unworthy he thought her to bear Alice’s baby.

Without another word, she’d spun on her heel and walked out. Back to her car. Back to the ferry terminal.

Now, as she waited for the next ferry, she gripped the steering wheel, stared blindly into space, and let her anger come to a full boil. So she wasn’t Alice, would never be as wonderful as Alice had been, but she wasn’t chopped liver either. Her brother-in-law’s response to her offer had been cruel. If he really had wanted this baby as much as he purported to, he’d have jumped at her offer. She was family. She was healthy. And most important of all, she was willing.