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question, refusing to even blink until he had answered; determined to be as honest as he would allow.
    “Most of the time you don’t, which I think says just as much as the way he eats you up every time he looks at you. The two of you—”
    “There is no two of us!” The volume of her own voice surprised her, reverberating in the solitude of their cottage.
    “I’m out.” He didn’t acknowledge her statement, unfolding from his deceptively indolent stance against the counter and leaving the kitchen. “I’m gonna be late for this job you want me to stay stuck in for the next eighteen months.”
    Kerris charged out after him into the living room, ignoring the gibe about his job.
    “There is no two of us.” She stopped to stand in front of him at the door. Cam turned to her, his face tight, eyes hard.
    “You think I’m stupid, Kerris? Is that it? You think I don’t know how you feel about him?”
    “What do you want me to say?” The words heated up in her mouth and boiled over. “I’ve told you that I love you. That it was a mistake. I’m not going anywhere. We’re having a baby together.”
    “But is that enough?” Emotion chipped away at the hardness in Cam’s eyes until they were a little softer, a little sadder. “What if it isn’t enough? Then what do we do?”
    And there it was. The fear that had skulked around in her heart since Cam first approached her about marriage that night so long ago. That what she felt for him wouldn’t satisfy. Would they have ended up here anyway, or had those few moments with Walsh cost her everything she’d thought would make her happy?
    “I gotta go or I’ll be late.” Cam’s eyes scanned her face, and Kerris wondered what he was searching for. She wondered if he found it. “Think about Paris, Ker. Maybe all we need is a fresh start somewhere new.”
    He leaned down to whisper something against her stomach; something she couldn’t hear. Something between him and the child they had made. He looked up and hesitated before standing and dropping a kiss on her cheek. And then he walked away.

Chapter Two
    T ell me again why we’re registering at Walmart?” Kerris’s best friend and business partner, Meredith, pulled into a spot in the crowded parking lot and rolled her eyes.
    Kerris laughed, climbing out carefully, still unused to the additional pregnancy weight she’d gained over the last five months. Nearly seven months’ pregnant in the dead heat of summer. She wouldn’t recommend it.
    “A lot of ladies coming in the shop want to buy things for the baby. I registered at all those froufrou places you chose.” Kerris shared a grin with her friend and wiped at the sweat on her neck. “I want to register somewhere those ladies can afford, too.”
    “I guess that makes sense.” Meredith gestured to Kerris’s baby bump. “And we still don’t know blue or pink, huh?”
    “No. Cam and I want to be surprised.”
    “You’ve had a great pregnancy.” Meredith smiled, the delicate bones of her face and exotic eyes giving away her Asian ancestry. “I know ladies who were sick the whole time, and who gained so much weight they were barely recognizable. Though I barely recognize you anymore with the short hair. Have you gotten used to it yet?”
    Kerris reached up to touch the soft hair curling around her neck, falling just shy of her shoulders. She had cut it a few months ago to honor Iyani. The little girl from the Walsh Foundation’s Kenyan orphanage had come to America battling a brain tumor. In life and after her death, Iyani had left an indelible impression on Kerris. Cutting and donating twenty inches of hair to Locks of Love was such a small thing, but Kerris had wanted to do it. Cam had gone with her, grinning and taking pictures for Facebook with his phone.
    Kerris wondered which Cam would come home tonight. He vacillated from the delighted daddy-to-be to the wronged husband who couldn’t quite manage to forgive or forget her