Saving Both Lives

Chapter 1

Having his partner come to him and confess she was pregnant was the last thing Danny Reagan had expected when he had walked into the station that morning. Even more so when she wouldn't say who the father was.

Baez had always tried to separate her personal life from the job, but even prodding her with questions to the point of her blowing her top wasn't enough to get her to talk to him.

When he confronted her again, this time at her apartment, she admitted it had been a one night stand after an extravagant date with some random guy that had moved into her building a few weeks ago.

"The day after I told him, he was gone," Maria said solemnly. "So...I guess I'm doing this on my own."

Danny left the subject at that. "Anything you need, I got your back," he told her.

"I know."

Since her brother's death, Baez's mother and sister had tried desperately to separate her work from their time together. But after learning about the pregnancy and her desire to stay on the job, they drew the line and insisted she stay off the streets. With Maria deciding to keep working despite their concerns, Ana refused to be near her, furious at her sister for risking her own child's life as she had Javi's.

This left their mother caught between them; she was wanting to offer her love and support for her future grandchild, but still a part of her also disappointed in her daughter's recklessness in continuing to chase criminals.

Maria didn't want her personal life to interfere with any of their cases, but she had a feeling that these new raging hormones would have something to say about it. Especially since her child would apparently never know its father.

She knew there had to be a reason he went up and left. Sooner or later, she knew she had to find out why.