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“A baby?” Jake blinked, obviously startled by the abrupt question.

“Your baby,” she prompted expectantly—knowing she was doing this all wrong—but she couldn’t hold back now.

“My baby?” he echoed softly, and his eyes darkened a fraction of a second before he brought the shutters down. “Look, Maggie, I know you were badly let down, and that the two of us…went a bit further than we should have that night. But I told you up-front that I won’t be getting married.”

“But I wasn’t asking you to marry me,” she retorted, completely sidetracked. She suddenly realized that he still hadn’t commented on her announcement, and wondered if she hadn’t made herself clear. “Jake, I just wanted to tell you that we—”

“I’m sorry, but I’m just not cut out to be a family man.”