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    â€œCar trouble?” he asked, sounding amused as he shoved his hands into his armpits to help block the cold.
    Caress looked up at him in annoyance at his amusement, and he dropped his grin.
    â€œIt won’t start and I have a doctor’s appointment,” she said, moving back to bend inside the car and pop the hood.
    Miss Independence , he thought.
    Julius wasn’t one of the let-me-take-a-look-under-the-hood kind of men. Nor was he interested in being in twenty-degree weather trying to figure out what was wrong with her ancient car. What he was was a gentleman. A gentleman who believed in paying those who enjoyed doing certain things in life…like fixing cars.
    â€œWhat time is your appointment?” he asked, walking down the slanted drive to stand beside her in front of the car.
    â€œIn thirty minutes,” she answered, pulling the stick to check the oil.
    Julius shook his head. “No, no, no,” he told her in a stern and deep voice that invited no argument—or so he hoped. He gently removed the stick, stuck it back where it belonged, and then closed the hood. “Give me five minutes to dress and call a mechanic. I’ll take you to the doctor.”
    Caress instantly shook her head. “I can’t afford a mechanic—”
    Julius felt like rolling his eyes but he didn’t because maybe he was hanging around Dwayne too much. “Caress, let me do this for you,” he requested in a serious tone as he looked down into her bright eyes that were filled with water from the January cold winds beating around them.
    Caress’s gaze was one of refusal.
    Julius nodded in persistence.
    â€œI’ll pay you back for the car,” she told him with determination that made him want to smile.
    Julius wanted to take her to the doctor anyway. Maybe hearing from the doctor’s mouth what her due date was would help ease the questions that still remained with him as to his true role in Caress’ unexpected pregnancy.
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    Caress settled deep onto the sand leather-heated seats of Julius’s Range Rover. She couldn’t lie—it was a far better ride than her chilly, in-need-of-shocks-real-bad hooptie. Still, she hated to think that Julius thought she was pushing herself or her baby onto him. Of course she’d be happy if he would get happy about the baby at least, but nothing else was foremost on her mind…during her working hours at least.
    She shivered at the heated memory of her erotic dreams of him at night. Pregnancy obviously didn’t cool her desires any because one thing she couldn’t deny was that Julius Jones, debonair urban man of the new millennium, turned her the hell on without even trying. And Lord knows he wasn’t trying worth a damn.
    â€œThanks again,” she said, glancing over at him as he drove with ease and confidence. “I wish I didn’t have to bother you.”
    Julius glanced over at her as well and their eyes met briefly before she looked away. “It’s not a bother, Caress.”
    They fell silent and the soft strains of some instrumental jazz filled the interior of the luxury vehicle again.
    â€œI guess if your car hadn’t broken down this morning you wouldn’t have told me about this appointment either?” he asked, adjusting his position in the driver’s seat.
    â€œOf course not,” she answered. “I clearly see our situation for what it is and nothing more. So the whole happy picture of us going to doctors’ appointments and shopping for the nursery…and…picking names together is not what I’m looking for. And I ain’t trying to push it on you either.”
    She felt Julius’s intense eyes on her and it made her feel electrified, but she ignored looking in his direction again.
    â€œThis is a hard situation for us both, Caress,” he told her.
    â€œI agree, Julius,” she answered.
    They fell silent again.
    â€œYou still not

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