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Jess rested her palm on her stomach.

“Did you hear that, Baby?” she asked. “Grandparents are in your future.”

For the first time, Duffy understood Jess. She had no parents. She didn’t want to let her child down as her mother had. What to him was a casual mention of his mother’s involvement was the promise of a special gift to her: family.

“I’m taking this pillow from the bed for me,” Duffy said carefully. “Don’t get any ideas.”

She blinked at him. But it wasn’t the I’m remembering something dazed look he’d seen her get every once in a while. Jess looked at him as if seeing him for the first time. As Duffy, not Greg’s mirror image.

That look touched something deep inside him, something that warmed and eased, something he’d kept locked away and refused to name.