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Intently Dante stared at her, and he could feel the powerful beat of his heart. “Is there something you need to tell me?”

Justina nodded as a wave of emotion threatened to overwhelm her, but she held it back. Don’t act coy or ashamed or intimidated, she urged herself. Just deal with the facts. “Is that a roundabout way of asking whether you’re the father?”

“Am I?”

For a moment she hesitated, tempted to tell him that no, he wasn’t. But then she thought of the child she carried. The baby who was currently kicking beneath her fluttering heart as if it was trying out for a fetal football team. Could she willfully deny her child the knowledge of its father, just because that father didn’t love her?

“Yes,” she breathed—and then she said it again, so that there could be no going back.

“Yes, you are the father, Dante.”