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around anyone with flu like symptoms?”
    “I’m always meeting with people. Who knows if any of them have been sick.”
    He nodded, make a mark on her chart. “Period?”
    She caught her breath and coughed. “What?”
    He looked up and met her gaze head on. “Menstrual period? When was the last time you had one?”
    Startled she shook her head and scrunched her forehead. “I’ve never missed one…I mean, I don’t keep track…if I did, I probably wouldn’t…”
    “Are you on the Pill? Or another birth control? Have you had any sexual encounters lately?”
    That sick feeling in her stomach got worse and she glanced at the picture of the pregnant woman again. “Yes, a few weeks ago and of course we used proper birth control.”
    She blinked and moistened her lips.
    Mostly they’d used proper birth control, but there had been that one instance when they’d gotten carried away and…
    She gave an uncomfortable laugh and shifted on the table again. “I’m hoping I have the flu. I don’t want it to be…you know, the other thing.”
    “We’ll check all of the options.” He shone a flashlight in one eye, then the other, felt her neck glands for swelling. “Any other symptoms? Tiredness? Swollen breasts? Lack of or heightened sex drive?”
    In the middle of stifling a yawn, she got that sick feeling in her gut again, and she slumped back against the wall. “Yes, yes, and definitely yes.”
    Especially the last one. And it was all Stone’s fault because he was irresistible.
    He stepped back, his eyes kind and concerned, his voice gentle and fatherly. “We’ll run some tests today. The results will be back within a couple of days. I suggest you make another appointment and we’ll take it from there.”
    Her voice came out small and needy. “You won’t tell anyone, will you? My dad…” She covered her face with her hands. “He’d be so mad and disappointed in me. And my career…I’m in the middle of planning the Kincaid wedding. I wouldn’t want news to get out.”
    As she stood up, he set one hand on her shoulder. “This is just between you and me. If the test turns out positive, it’ll be up to you when and how you break the news to anyone you care to tell.”
    As she headed down the hallway for the blood and urine samples, she struggled against the shock of it all.
    Stone Kincaid, hotshot divorce lawyer, the man who starred in her nighttime fantasies.
    It was his fault she was in trouble now.
    His fault her ever expanding waistline might be… expanding .
    No wonder she felt fat and frumpy.
    If he hadn’t been temptation with a twinkle in his eyes, a ready smile on his mouth, and the best looking shoulders she’d ever seen, she might have been able to avoid him.
    But one look had led to a zillion intimate touches later, and now…
    A baby ?
    As she left the doctor’s office, she resisted the urge to cover her midriff with her hands, and when a space between vehicles opened up, she hurried across the street.
    What would she do if the test results were positive? Move back in with her parents? Work at the local grocery store just so she could put food on the table for her growing youngster?
    No way could she be pregnant. They’d been so very careful…mostly. It had to be the flu.
    She spied the Serendipity Island Pharmacy sign and stopped mid-step.
    If she picked up a home pregnancy test, she wouldn’t have to wait to find out the results.
    Because if the results were positive, Stone Kincaid would never look at her like a goddess again.

CHAPTER TEN

    Stone had been certain the Goodwins would stay with their daughter during her checkup—in hindsight, he now realized he’d been hoping on a prayer and a song—so when her parents followed him into the coffee shop and slid onto the stools beside him, he immediately shifted into defensive mode.
    He never ever met the parents of the women he dated. Not only did it give marriage minded mothers and their daughters false hope, but he had enough