Scandalously Expecting His Child(88)

                She flushed with passion and embarrassment, unable as usual to                     take her dues. “But you didn’t, and now you’ll have everything you ever dreamed                     of and deserve. I won’t have to feel perpetually sad and guilty that my presence                     in your life deprived you of such a huge thing.”

                “It will be huge only because I will share it with you. But if                     not for you, for your forgiveness and your desire to be part of a family, I                     wouldn’t have accepted. So they do owe you. Just as I owe you my happiness, my                     very life.”

                Crying out, she pulled him down to her. “And I owe you                     mine.”

                And she took him inside her, taking him home, his one and only                     home, forever.

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