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“I’m trying to compromise with you, here. I am not raising six boys.”

“It might be six girls.”

“Oh, hell no. Girls are worse than boys.” She pointed to herself. “Case in point.”

“You’re beautiful, smart, and the best person I know,moye serdste. Six more of you would be a gift.”

“Until boys started coming by the house.”

“Fuck no. Our girls aren’t dating until they graduate college.”

She laughed, and his heart melted. It was the first real laugh he’d heard from her since she’d spotted their son.

“You can’t dictate what they do when they go to college.”

“The fuck I can’t. They are going to stay home and go to school. We’ll save a small fortune in room and board alone with six girls.”

“I love you.”

“I love you too, Angelique Lemoraux Kincaid.” He brushed his thumb across her lips. “More than I can ever tell you.”

She took his hand and placed it on her belly. “This tells me just how much you love me. Our nugget.”

A love so fierce it took him by surprise swelled up, and he laid his head on her belly. She’d given him a second chance after every awful thing he’d done to her. Now God was not only giving them another second chance with a baby, but he might have given them their son back.

He wouldn’t let God down. He’d protect them with his life this time.

He caught his brother a little while later before he came back into the hospital room. Angel had dozed off, and he wanted her to sleep. The nurse said she’d wake her up every two hours because of the concussion, so trying to cat nap between those would be the best thing for her.

“I got her a couple things. Not sure what she’d be able to eat.” Nik held up the bag from one of his favorite Italian places. “She awake?”

“No, she just dozed off, but I need to talk to you two.” He included Watkins in this. “I don’t want her to know about Matthew yet.”

“The fuck you say.” Nik nailed their mother’s angry glare in that moment. “She has a right to know her son is alive.”

“Yes, she does, but not right now.” Kade pulled the door closed in case she woke up. “She’s pregnant. Do you think she’ll let me go get him by myself?”

“Shit.”

“Exactly.” Kade rolled his shoulders, hearing joints crack and pop. “If we tell her, and she goes to Miami, what if she gets hurt? If she loses this baby, she’ll never get past it.”

“I get where you’re coming from,brat.Really, I do, but if youdon’ttell her, she’ll never forgive that either. If it were Lily, I’d die to protect her, but I wouldn’t keep this from her. She deserves to know.”

“I think everyone’s jumping ahead of themselves.” Watkins leaned against the door, watching the hallway. “The DNA results aren’t back yet. Wait for that, and then decide. No need to tell her right now then have it come back negative. Don’t cause her worry for no reason.”

What Kade had originally planned on doing anyway before Nik took the high road on him. Or maybe he wouldn’t have. Fuck if he knew. All he wanted to do was protect her, the nugget, and Matthew, wherever he might be.

“How long before we get the results?”

“Couple hours,” he told his brother and grabbed one of the coffees out of the cardboard container. “I’m going a little crazy.”

Nik handed a separate bag to Watkins, who sniffed and closed his eyes. It reminded him of Angel when she described food porn. No wonder the two of them got along so well. They were both food whores, but then again, his brother Dimitri could beat them both out for that title. Where all that food went, Kade would never know.

Kade’s phone started ringing, and he tore it out of his pocket, hoping for news. Conner’s smiling face greeted him. Viktor must have called him.

“Conner.”

“How is she?” Abrupt and to the point. That was Conner these days. Not the happy-go-lucky kid who’d left for the military six years ago.

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