Page 51 of Remember That Time

Janos rubbed his hands over his face for a moment before dropping them and letting them dangle between his legs. "I honestly don't know."

"You know this isn't me, right?" He had answered that question before, but I had to be sure. "I would never threaten the life of the baby."

Janos gave me a wan smile as he patted my leg. "I know it's not you, Gianni. You would never harm our baby, even if you never learned that I was the father."

Hewas the father.

That might be taking longer to sink in than someone threatening the baby. "You're really the father?" I asked just to be sure I'd heard him right.

"That's what the test results stated. The lab sent them directly to my phone since I put a rush on them. The official documents should be here in a couple of days."

My eyes narrowed for a moment. "Who has access to your penthouse?"

"Me and Vasso." Janos frowned. "Why?"

"Do you trust him?"

"Besides you, my grandmother, and my sister, he's probably the only other person on the planet that I completely trust."

Something in the center of my chest warmed. "You trust me?"

"Yes, of course I do. I wouldn't want to marry you if I didn't."

I wrapped both hands around Janos's arm and leaned my head on his shoulder. "Thank you."

"Don't break that trust, Gianni," Janos warned. "Once it's gone, it's gone for good."

I got it. My family was the same way.

"I won't," I promised in a solemn tone. I lifted my head so I could see his face clearly. "Although, I do have to warn you that my family has pretty tough pre-nuptial agreement that you'll have to sign."

Janos lifted one dark eyebrow. "Does that mean you'll marry me?"

"Let's just say you're in the running." Luckily for him, it was a one man race. "Is there any way you can stop the lab from sending the official papers or maybe send them here instead of your office?"

"I can, but why would I do that?"

I was still trying to piece my thoughts together myself so it was going to be hard to explain it to Janos. Someone close was acting behind the scenes. I could feel it.

"Whoever is doing this knows too much about your personal life. I feel like they are close to you or getting information from someone close to you. I mean, I doubt you've talked to a lot of people about sleeping with a stranger in a hotel room and getting them pregnant. There's certainly nothing about it on the news or even the gossip magazines. That tells me that whoever is behind this wants it kept quiet."

"So, maybe we need to not keep quiet."

I frowned at Janos, not quite understanding what he was getting at. "What do you mean?"

"Marry me and we can announce it to the world that we're expecting a baby," Janos stated calmly as if he hadn't just pulled the rug out from under my feet. "If we get married and provethat the baby you are carrying is mine, then this person has no ammunition against us."

"We still need to know who they are, Janos." How was he not getting that? "This person is trying to blackmail you for ten million dollars. If they can't do it this way, they'll figure out another way."

They wouldn't stop until they were behind bars or dead.

"Don't worry, I have people looking into this."

I knew Janos was trying to reassure me, but I was not reassured. If anything, his casual reply made me think he wasn't taking this seriously at all. "And how do you know the people looking into this aren't behind it."

"Technically, I don't, but—"

I snorted as I dug my phone out of my pocket and dialed the one person I knew could help me find whoever was doing this. "Nonna, I need your help."

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