Page 33 of Remember That Time

My shoulders heaved as I sighed. "I don't exactly know who the father is."

Janos's jaw hit the table.

"I know that makes me sound like the biggest slut in the world, but I'm not. I swear. I haven't even been on a date in two years. I just don't have the time."

"Then how...?"

"I went to a party hosted by another medical student. It was right after two weeks of hell doing hospital rotations and I needed to unwind a little bit. I guess I had too much to drink and six weeks later I found out I was pregnant."

"And no idea who the father is?" Janos asked as if he had to be sure he'd heard me correctly.

"I don't even remember having sex. That night is a complete blur." Well, not a total blur. I got impressions of some really hot sex, but nothing of the man I had been having sex with.

"How far along are you?"

"About twelve weeks."

Janos was silent for a moment, his thumb rubbing over the top of my hand. "Are you keeping it?" he finally asked.

"I am." I nodded as I dropped my gaze to our hands. "It took me a while to get to that decision, but ultimately, even if I don't know who the father is, this is still my baby and I don't want to give him or her up."

"Good for you."

My head popped up. That wasn't the response I had been expecting. "You don't think I'm a slut?"

Janos's eyebrows furrowed. "No, why would I?"

"Because I slept with a man I don't know and got pregnant?"

The smartest minds in the world couldn't have helped me interpret the smile that crossed Janos's face. It almost looked self-depreciating.

"About a month ago I received a letter at work. It was a positive pregnancy test. There were no names on it."

My eyebrows lifted. "Seriously?"

"It happens more often than you would think."

"Why?" I asked.

"I have money, a lot of it, and people want it."

Oh, right.

"I didn't really think anything of it until a few weeks later when some bloody cotton swaps were delivered in the same way the pregnancy test was and it was recommended that I do a Non-Invasive Prenatal Paternity Test." Janos raised an eyebrow. "I assume you know what that is?"

I nodded.

"Turns out I'm going to be a father," Janos admitted. "Problem is, I don't know who I got pregnant. I vaguely remember having sex with someone, but it's more of a blur than anything. And whoever it was, they were gone when I woke up."

"I woke up the next morning in my apartment. I have no idea how I got there."

Janos grunted. "I woke up in a hotel room."

My heart skipped a beat. "What hotel?"

"The Regency Hotel."

I swallowed tightly. "The Regency?"

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