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“I’ll do it for the baby.”

Tara placed the infant Laura in a sling against her chest. “Here’s a man who needs a wife. And I need a husband so I can get a home study to adopt Laura.”

“Tara, you can’t...”

Tara laughed. “Just kidding, Mom.” But she wasn’t.

She wanted to adopt Laura legally and she knew the other midwives at the birth center in Texas would help her. But Tara also knew that in her case, the authorities . would insist on a prerequisite. A husband.

Tara didn’t have time to “fall in love,” as her mother had suggested the other night. It would take a century. But a “suitable” man to marry lived two miles away, and she had the tool to bribe him. Herself. She would care for his children and she would clean his house.

Are you crazy, Tara? What made her think Isaac would marry her because he needed child care—or a housekeeper?

But she needed him. Isaac McCrea, M.D. She needed him so she could keep Laura.