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Meredith chuckles. “I’ll calm him down.”

My chest swells when she doesn’t correct the doctor.

I know we’re nowhere near married, but it feels good that she didn’t scream, “He’s not my husband!”

The doctor leaves, and I huff out a breath.

“I’m being calm,” I say through gritted teeth.

“You’re always like this.” She sighs. “You’re too overprotective. You and Grayson both.”

It’s something she could have said years ago, and I can’t help that it warms my heart. In another life, we would have been married, and I would have rushed her here.

“How are you feeling?”

“Terrible.”

“You look terrible.”

She glares at me. “Gee, thanks.” Then she sighs. “But thank you for coming over. I really wasn’t able to drive myself here.”

“You’ll feel better after some fluids.” I rub her back as she starts to look nauseous again.

I sit next to her, pulling back her hair when she throws up into a basin, and she flushes.

“I’m sorry about all of this.”

“You’re sick. There’s nothing to be sorry about.”

The nurse comes in and gives her fluids and medication, and soon enough Meredith’s eyelids are drooping.

I smile, sitting next to her bed, having scooted the chair over to the cot.

“Get some rest, princess.”

For once, she doesn’t complain about the pet name.

The doctor returns after a few hours, and I nudge Meredith to wake her.

“I think we’ve discovered the problem, Mrs. Whitlock.”

Meredith rouses and sits up. “What’s going on?”

I sit up stiffly. “Is it something serious?”

“You’re going to be a mother.”

All the sound seems to go out of the room.

ChapterFifteen

MEREDITH

“Wh-what?”

“You’ll have to see an ob-gyn to see how far along you are, but I suspect this is all just morning sickness.”

Logan’s staring at the doctor as if she said I have alien blood or something, and I wonder if he’s processing all this.

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