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“Well if you were on time, you would have been here for us to announce that the baby isn’t mine.” Aiden tosses his casual words at his sister like a grenade.

“What?” Her shocked gaze whips between us as she stumbles into the room. “She cheated on you?”

“Ouch.” Aiden holds a palm over his heart.

“I’d never,” I promise as I kiss him softly on the lips.

“Can someone tell me what the hell is going on?” Cortney settles her hands on her hips.

“Come on.” Whitney hands off baby Soren to Cortney. “Let’s go chat in the kitchen while I spike your hot chocolate.”

Whitney throws us a wink as she ushers Cortney around the corner.

EPILOGUE

Isla

Two MonthsLater

“Tell me you’re close,”Aiden growls in my ear.

I huff an exasperated breath. “Will you stop freaking out?”

“If I’d have known the two of you would be traipsing around in a damn blizzard I wouldn’t have let you go.”

I yank the phone away from my ear so fast Juniper whips her head in my direction. “Look at the road!” I throw my hand out at the windshield.

“Yes, Juniper, look at the road,” Aiden barks loud enough for me to hear.

After a cleansing breath, I put the phone back to my head. “I’m going to give you five seconds to rephrase that last sentence to me or I’m hanging up.”

The long pause sends my hormones into overdrive and not in the good way.

“You didn’tletme do anything!” I shout when he doesn’t respond.

“Sorry, starshine. I didn’t expect to worry over your shopping trip today.”

I flick a loose strand of bottle-brown hair over my shoulder. “You don’t need to worry. Juniper is an excellent driver.”

“You’re thirty weeks pregnant. You can’t blame me for being concerned when it’s snowed half a foot since you left.”

My heart melts a little at the direction of conversation. “I’ll give you a pass this time.”

“I’ll make it up to you later.”

“Oh, really? How will you do that?”

“I’m thinking dinner… in bed. And after, I’ll give you a nice rub.”

“That does sound nice.”

“From the inside.”

A coughing fit steals my breath. “I’m letting you go. We’ll be there in five minutes.”

“Be safe, beautiful. I’ll be waiting.”

“I won’t make you wait long.” I hit the red button and tuck my phone into my purse.

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