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CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
KNOX
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I walk slowly back into the bedroom and find Payton curled up under the covers. Her eyes follow mine and then fall to the box I’m holding in my hand.
Her mouth falls open.
When I hold up the pregnancy test in my other hand, she’s gone deathly white.
“Payton. Are you pregnant?” my deep, rough voice asks.
She nods.
I have about seven questions rolling around in my head, but I’m not sure which one to ask first.
“It’s yours,” she tells me and that was not one of them.
“It fucking better be mine,” I growl, tossing the test and box on her dresser and walk to the bed sitting next to her.
We stare at each other for a long moment, and finally I reach out and take her hand.
“Fucking hell.”
Payton tucks up her legs in what is clearly a protective move and says, “I’m scared.”
Me too.
But I am also... I’m going to be a dad.
A fucking dad.
Holy fucking Jesus.
“Come here.” I pull her onto my lap and wrap my arms around her. “Payton. We made a baby.”
“I know.” She nods, and tears fall down her face.
I grip the back of her head. “A baby. You are pregnant with my baby.”
“Yes.”
Oh, my god.
“A baby.”
“You can stop saying that.” She bites her lip.
This woman is mine.
This woman and the child growing inside her belong to me.
