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It was the last thing I expected him to say, and for a second I just sat there, stunned. Then—
“Are you crazy? I can’t tell him! What if he says he wants me to keep it?”
“He can’t force you,” Dix pointed out. “It’s your body.”
“But it’s his baby.” Our baby. And God, the thought of that—! “He has the right...”
“He doesn’t have the right to tell you what to do. Legally—”
I interrupted him. Mother taught me that interrupting is wrong, but I couldn’t keep it in. “Legally, schmegally. Come on, Dix. Morally and ethically, he has the right to an opinion. And I have an obligation to take what he says into account.”
“I always suspected Bradley Ferguson wasn’t the only reason you dropped out of law school,” Dix grumbled. “With an attitude like that, you’d never make it as a lawyer. Legally, it’s your body and you can do what you want with it.”
“But here in the real world, I offered him my body, and he put a baby inside it, and that means he gets a say in what happens to that baby.”
“If you tell him,” Dix said.
“Right. If I tell him.”
“And right now he’s gone. Any idea when he’s coming back?”
“None.” Could be tomorrow, could be never. He’d already been gone longer than he thought he’d be. Before he left, he’d told me he expected it to take a few weeks, maybe a month at the most. It had been almost two.
“Then I suggest you think fast,” Dix said.
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