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I clear my throat and all three of them look over at me. “Ummm. Dixie? Is there something you want to tell me?”

She flushes and her pretty eyes dart away from me. “I-I don’t know what you’re talking about. Don’t you have somewhere you need to be, Cord? All those people are waiting to hear from you.” Her green eyes jump up to mine. “And by the way…why didn’t you tell me who you were when we met?” Her brows knit and she glares at me hard.

“I would have told you but unfortunately I woke up the next morning in a cold, lonely bed since the woman I loved ran out on me and didn’t even say good-bye.”

Both of the other guys grunt and stand up straight, frowning, fists clenched. “Are you telling me that you had sex with our sister?” The older guy looks ready to blow but Dixie jumps between us. I eye them both happily from behind her, my hands settling on her hips. My brows scrunch.

“I’m telling you, Dixie. You feel different.”

Both Troy and the other guy step closer, their faces wearing fierce masks. Dixie huffs. “Why can’t you keep your yap shut, Cord? While you’ve still got all your body parts.”

I can see that they didn’t know fuck all about me. And I can also see that there’s something different about Dixie. She turns back to her brothers and the wind picks up, pushing her loose-fitting tee up against her body and I suck in a sharp breath.

“You’re pregnant!”

Troy and his brother both growl and glare at me. “Is that it, little sis? Did this asshole get you knocked up and disappear?”

I glare at them. “I just told you that she disappeared on me. I told her that she was mine. She’s my woman.”

Jokester isn’t laughing now. His ice-blue eyes are just like his brother’s and he stomps closer to me. His big, meaty paw smacks at my chest and it takes everything in me not to flinch.

That fucker has a hard punch!

“Why, if you told her that she was your woman, would she run away in the middle of the night? A happy woman doesn’t just take off and leave a warm bed…”. Here he actually starts to look a little pale. “I don’t want to talk about the bed,” he mutters under his breath, driving his hands into his hair and pacing.

“I don’t want to discuss it with you either, asshole.” I shouldn’t call him an asshole. He’s going to be my brother in law. Open hostility isn’t going to win me any points with her family.

I turn and look at Dixie, my eyes eating up her lovely features, getting lost in her emerald gaze. “I want to know why you took off, Dixie. Why did you run from me? All I wanted was to make you happy. Why wasn’t that good enough for you?

She whips around and stomps off but then comes back to me, her cheeks flushing a deep pink.

“It is good enough for me. If that’s all it is. But why do you keep being so insistent that this is forever? Why can’t you just believe that it’s good enough for now?”

“Dix…every damn piece of you is perfect. There isn’t one thing about you that I would fucking change. Except this way you have of putting yourself down and calling yourself names. I’m not okay with that at all. You are fucking perfect and anybody that tells you differently should get their ass kicked.”

I glare at the two brothers and both of them lift their hands high, shoulders up and matching smirks on their faces.

But I honestly don’t have time for them right now. I’ve got a woman to win. A mother to spoil. And a sweet little girl to introduce to the family that loves her unconditionally.

You can tell. But I’m not sure if she realizes how much.

I nod at the big fuckers. “I need to talk to my little baby mama alone, if you don’t mind.”

Truth is, I don’t care if they do mind. This is my show. I’m playing to win.

CHAPTER 11

Dixie

This has to be a nightmare. Two of my brothers are here in town and about to beat up my baby’s daddy who just found out that he’s a future daddy.

At least I hope it’s only two.

I whip around as they walk away. “Where are the rest of the guys?”

Troy grins. “Wouldn’t you like to know?”

“Do not embarrass me, assholes. This is my home.”

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