First Came Baby. Kris Fletcher
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When she looked up again, her face was set in a resolve he’d seen only a couple of times before. When she’d told him that no matter what, she was keeping their baby. When she told Maggie that no matter what, they were getting married.
When she had taken him to the airport for his flight back to Peru. And why hadn’t he put that together until just now?
“I know that you don’t see yourself as a family man, Boone, and that’s...well, it is what it is. It’s part of you. But as we both know, things happen.”
She had a point. Maybe he should look into getting a vasectomy while he was here.
“But I’m not you. I want to have more kids. I would like to have them with someone I can build a life with.”
She wants to be with someone else.
Once, when he was helping build the expansion on the project’s office, the guy carrying the other end of a board had slipped and Boone had taken a solid chunk of wood to the torso. Kate’s words made him feel like he was doubled over in the yard once again, struggling to breathe through a chest that had forgotten how to move.
“I...guess that’s another thing I hadn’t thought about.”
Maybe because it was impossible for him to think about her being with someone else and still see straight.
And then he had to know. “Is there someone?”
“What, do you mean, like, am I taking applications?” She started at him blankly before bursting into laughter.
“No. No, Kate, I’m not...”
Her laughter faded into a bemused smile. “I’ve been kind of busy, you know?”
Yeah. He knew.
“Sorry.” He attempted a smile. “You caught me by surprise.”
“Obviously.” Her gaze slid sideways, though he doubted she was really seeing Jamie chewing on the alpaca. “I mean, it would be one thing if you thought that maybe, someday...”
His breath caught in his throat. She shook her head.
“But you’re there, and I’m here. And if it turns out this is the only life Jamie ever knows, then that’ll be his normal and it will be wonderful.” She stretched her foot out again to straighten the corner of the blanket. “I only remember a little from the years when it was just me and Mom, living here with Nana and Poppy, but I know it was good. Then she married Neil, and then Allie came along, and things just felt so different. Like we’d found something we never knew was missing.” Her voice dropped. “Someday, I would like to have that for Jamie.”
“And for you?”
He shouldn’t have asked. He had no right. Yes, she was his wife, but that was only a matter of time. She would always be the mother of his son, but that didn’t give him any say over who was in her life, or her heart, or her bed.
Jamie. Keep it focused on Jamie.
“As long as this future potential...person...is good to Jamie, I don’t see how I would have any input.”
“Well, you wouldn’t, really. But I want you to think about it. If someone else was in our lives, day in, day out, he would become the father figure. You would still be Daddy, but things would be...different.”
Different. Yeah, that was one way to describe it.
He was pretty sure he was okay with things being different. Change was good. But he was also pretty sure that Kate would prefer the version she had laid out.
That, he wasn’t so certain he could handle.
But he also knew that he had no choice.
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