Page 55 of The Backup Bride Proposal

“Oh…just…nothing, really. Marriage. Family. Children. Or not.”

He turned her in her chair to face him. “Nothing, huh? Care to expound on those nothings?”

“Just a conversation I had with Honor and a discussion about whether to have children.”

“Ah. And what’s your take on that?”

She frowned. “On what?”

“Kids? Yes or no?”

“Oh. Definitely yes. I love kids.”

“Me, too. I want tons of them.”

For some reason, that surprised her, though she had no idea why. Preconceived notions, probably. “Define tons.”

He looked up, thinking. “I don’t know. Three or four.”

“You’d better get started. You’re not getting any younger.”

Now it was his turn to laugh. “Hey, I’m only thirty-two. I could have four by the time I’m forty.”

“Uh…Does the future Mrs. August know she’s going to be popping out four babies in less than ten years?”

“Huh. Okay, you have a point. Though there have been twins in my family.”

“So, two at a time, then. How lovely for her.”

“Hey. I plan to help.”

“You won’t be the one carrying or birthing them, bud. That’s on your wife. Or girlfriend. Or whatever you have in mind.”

“Actually, until we started this conversation, a wife and kids wasn’t even on my mind.”

“But now it is?”

He shrugged. “Maybe. As you mentioned, I’m not getting any younger.”

“I know a lot of awesome single women. Want me to set you up with some?”

He picked up her hand, rubbing his thumb over it. “Trying to get rid of me?”

With the way her body reacted like a sizzling strike of lightning had hit her, just because he was rubbing her hand? Not a chance. “I can give you a few more days, but only because you seem so desperate.”

“Appreciate that.” He stood, pulling her up. “Slow song’s playing and I want to feel you up close to me. How about a dance?”

“How could I say no? Lead the way.”

She was in deep, deep trouble with Kane August. Because he said all the right things, he got her motor running in all the right ways and he made her feel like when it was time to walk away, it was going to be the most difficult thing ever. And she hadn’t felt that way since the last time she loved someone.

That just couldn’t happen.

Chapter

seventeen

Kane had tofly to Los Angeles to do some quick reshoots for the movie he’d completed prior to the one he was working on now in Oklahoma. He left before dawn, slept on the plane and landed early. A car was waiting for him to take him to the studio.

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