Healing Hearts

I just made a deal with my dream girl.

We’re friends so what’s there to worry about?
I’m happy to be the one who picks her up after a bad date. When she needs help at home, I’ll be there–no expectations or questions asked.
She’s the strongest person I know, raising her son after her husband died.
I’m an ex con, with regrets a mile long. Loving her from afar has to be enough for me. I know I don’t deserve her.
But now we’re snowed in together on New Year’s Eve.
And she just asked me to get her pregnant.
I don’t want to lose her, but how can I say no when it’s all Emily wants?
I think I’m about to make a baby with my best friend.

This is a small town, steamy, best friends to lovers romance that deals with grief/loss and some mention of fertility issues.