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Baby Daddy

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Chapter 31

Baby Daddy

Trent

Today we have our retest for paternity. I'm not nervous and I know that no matter what the results are, Zoe is mine. I love her as if she were my own. I'm only doing this test to make sure Adrienne didn't screw with the last test. I'm not sure why she would make sure the test wasn't one of us but I have my suspicions that is exactly what she did.

Rolling to my side I look at Maggie, my girl, sleeping peacefully next to me. She's fully moved in now and Lily is now at her beach house. Frankie will be there too soon. Once Mitch is out of the hospital and back on his feet. The shooting was harder on her than she let us see. All of us but Harper, he saw through her facade and wouldn't leave her side. That set Frankie off, but Harper stepped up, in a way that I think surprised even him.

I want my brother to know the same solid love that I found with Maggie. Seeing the way he looks at Frankie, watching his frustration with her and with himself for not knowing what to do about his feelings, I can see he's heading down that slippery slope into love. He's got a ways to go before he'll admit it to himself or her but it's going to be fun to watch him fall.

Emerly told us the other day about Jeremy's fight with Adrienne. As we set the final details for the hearing, we agreed that the secondary test was a good idea. Jeremy agreed to the test too but I definitely noticed the tension between him and Emerly. The looks they gave each other, the way they all but avoided contact when they were too close to the other.

What the hell happened with them?

Jeremy has been a bit off with all of us. He's snapping at Cole and me a little more, short with Zoe but the shocker has been he's nicer to Maggie. Jeremy's not giving her a hard time, or being his normal rude self. I appreciate it. Maggie is mine, and I want her to be accepted by my family. Despite Jeremy's faults he's still family.

Still watching her sleep, I carefully move a strand of hair out of her face so I can see her beautiful face better. My girl, my love. I don't want to know what my life would be without her. As much as I want to stay here with her, make love to her again, I can't. I need to get moving.

Slipping quietly out of bed, I grab a fast shower. Letting the hot water pound down on the tight muscles in my neck and shoulders, my head drops to my chest and I breathe in the heated steam.

The image of Maggie is instantly there in my head. Hot steam swirling around her. Her curves slick with soapy water slipping down her body. Damn this is something I would love to happen. Having my girl in here with me, making love while hot water pounds us. Slipping her up against the wall, sliding into her and creating a life.

Wow! That certainly changed this image! A baby with her. What would that be like? Not just the creating part, I think I would have her tied to the bed for the next month or until we knew she was pregnant and then to watch her bloom. To see her carrying our child.

Man, I gotta stop!

Working the soap into my hair, I try to stop thinking about it but I can't. I want this. I've got the girl I've been waiting for, I've got a great daughter in Zoe. We're already a family in a way. I just need to give Maggie a chance to get used to this first. Then, then I'll.... no she needs to know that I'm committed to her. She needs to believe that I'm not going anywhere.

That's where the construction noise above me starts in. I forgot Cade was starting today on the remodel. The changes in this place are for Maggie and Zoe. So they know I'm ready to move forward and be a father and the man Maggie can be proud of, maybe she will be able to say the words to me then.