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She felt a flush spreading over her. “Too early to be sure, but…most probably.” She hid her face into his chest, burning. “That’s why I never mentioned protection. I wanted to have your baby, thought it would be all I had of you.”

He turned her face up to his, his smile delight itself. “Same here.” Then whimsy quirked his lips. “I shudder to think what more complications we could have had if we weren’t already on the same wavelength.”

She pulled his head down to hers, took his lips in a kiss that pledged him everything, melded them for life. “I’ll tell you all I can think of. You. All of you. Your flesh in mine, your pleasure, your happiness, your existence.”

And he joined them, took her, gave her, pledged back, “Then take all of me, for life, ya hayati. For you are my life.”