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“I don’t sleep around with married women, lady, especially pregnant ones. You’ve made me something I really did not want to be.”

Never much good at lying, Becca realized her mouth was still hanging open when Aiden stopped his tirade.

“You thought I was married?”

He scowled. “Not then. But when I saw you here—pregnant as a house—what was I supposed to think?”

“Uh…” It finally registered in Becca’s tired, stressed-out brain. He thought she’d been cheating on her husband. He didn’t know she didn’t have a husband. He didn’t suspect the baby was his.

A nervous, relieved laugh escaped before she could stop herself.

“Wait a minute.” Aiden peered at her in the gathering darkness. Then he snatched up her left hand. “You’re not wearing a ring.”

Becca pulled her fingers back. “I’m not married.” It was too late for that.

“If you’re not married, whose baby is that?” He pointed at her belly as if it were repugnant to him.

“It’s mine.”