“Is this how it’s going to be?” She threw up her hands. “You’re going to take care of everything and leave me out of it?”

“Stuff like this? Absolutely.”

“That’s not how I want to live, Mac. That’s not the kind of marriage I want.”

“This is me, Maddie. It’s who I am. I see something that’ll make you sick with worry, and I make it go away. I love you too much to watch you suffer like that, and you would’ve suffered over this.” He went to her, slid an arm around her waist and brought her in close to him. “You would’ve suffered.”

She expelled a deep, shuddering breath as all the fight went out of her. “Yes. I would have.”

“Now you don’t have to. He signed his way right out of our lives.” Mac pressed his lips to her forehead. “Are you mad?”

“No,” she said softly. “I’m sad.”

“Because of what I did?”

She shook her head. “Because his father cares so little about him that he’d sign him away without ever even knowing him.”

Mac stepped back from her, picked up Thomas from the floor and hugged them both. “His father cares so much about him that there’s nothing he wouldn’t do for him. His father will love him and care for him and give him his name and protect him every day of his life.”

Maddie looked up at him with her heart in those caramel eyes.

He brushed a gentle kiss over her lips. “His father will love him and his mother forever.” He kissed her again. “Now about those conditions you mentioned. . .”

“Will Thomas’s father try very hard to not keep things from his mother?”

“He’ll do his best, as long as he’s allowed to occasionally surprise her.”

She raised that eyebrow of hers. “And these will be good surprises?”

“The very best surprises he can think of.”

“In that case, my friend, you’ve got yourself a family.”

“I guess it’s official, then.”

“Our engagement?”

“That, too.” Mac leaned in to kiss her once more. “Knocking you off your bike was the best thing I ever did.”

She smiled. “I couldn’t agree more.”

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