Page 97 of Accidental Baby Daddy

“Then I guess you shouldn’t treat women the way you do.”

“You got my fiancée pregnant,” he scowled. “I should kill you.”

“You can try,” I replied as I sat on his back, not quite breaking his arm but causing tremendous pain. He yelped and tried to wriggle free but I was bigger than him. He was also inebriated so his reflexes weren’t as quick.

The cops arrived in less than five minutes, the sheriff’s office was just down the street.

Reese walked in ready with a pair of handcuffs dangling from his hand, the blue and red lights flashing brightly, hurting my eyes.

“I’ve got it from here, Ollie,” Reese said flatly, and I stood up. Dick scrambled toward the back exit as soon as I got off him, but Reese ran him down, grabbing him and slamming him against the wall.

“You’re being arrested for trespassing,” Reese said. “You have the right to remain silent?—"

“And assault,” I piped up, hurrying over to Lexie, who was sitting on a bar stool, trembling.

I put a hand on her arm, and she winced. A bruise was already forming where Dick had grabbed her.

“The baby?—”

“I’m okay,” she said quickly. “He didn’t touch me anywhere else, just my arm.”

“We should go to the hospital just in case,” I told her, and she nodded slowly.

“The doctor did tell me to avoid stress,” she said with a dark chuckle.

“Our little girl will be fine,” I said quickly, wanting to reassure her while my heart pounded out of my chest.

An ambulance arrived just a few moments after Reese. The dispatcher must have called both, and I was grateful.

I rode in the back of the ambulance with Lexie, taking her hand in mine.

“What if something is wrong?” she asked worriedly. “What if the stress?—”

“Everything is going to be just fine,” I said firmly. “Don’t even talk like that. The baby’s going to be fine.You’regoing to be fine.”

One good thing about living in a small town was that there wasn’t much hospital traffic, and Lexie was in a hospital bed hooked up to monitors in no time.

She watched the fetal monitor with worry, biting her bottom lip. I reached over and gently rubbed her face.

“Strong heartbeat,” I pointed out. “Just like before.”

She nodded slowly, smiling slightly. “Thanks to you,” she said softly.

“I’m just glad I was in the office.” I frowned. “You’re not allowed to be the last person in the bar ever again. In fact, I want you to quit.”

She blinked at me. “Quit?”

“I want to take care of you,” I said quietly. “You and the baby. I know that you don’t want me?—”

“Oliver…”

I cut her off. “Look, you can stay living in the cabin, and I won’t bother you. Just let me pay for everything, at least until after the baby’s born. I know that you’re proud, Lex, butplease, let me do this.”

She opened her mouth to speak but a doctor walked in, halting her words.

I turned, looking toward him, a hopeful expression on my face.

“Miss Tripp, everything seems to be in order here,” he said in a no-nonsense tone. “You’ve got some bruises, but they’ll heal, and nothing is fractured. The baby seemsfine.”

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