“Robin, I don’t want to fight with you.”

“I don’t want to fight with you either.”

“It’s not like it’s going to be important. Once the baby is out, I’ll get you back.”

“What do you mean?” she asked. She wasn’t going to point out he still had her. They had never slept together, but it didn’t for a second stop them from being close. She missed her friend a great deal. It wasn’t the same without him.

“My dad can have the baby. No one needs to know it’s yours. He can say it’s from the club. You’ll give birth, and then we’ll be free to be together. No one needs to know it’s your baby.”

“You do know people have seen me around town. They know I’m pregnant.”

“Dad will handle it. It’s not like you need to take care of it. Dad took care of me, and he can handle your kid. It doesn’t have to know that you’re its mom. You can give it up.”

She laughed, but it wasn’t a happy sound. Stepping back from him, she looked at the nursery. “That’s what you want? Me to give it up?”

“Not to some stranger but to my dad, sure.”

“And you’d be happy with that?”

“Yeah, why not? We’d go back to being us.”

She stared down at her wedding band and turned to look at him. “I don’t know what you think is going to happen, but I want to be part of this baby’s life. I want to know my daughter, Bishop. I look forward to meeting her. There’s no way I’m going to give her up.”

“You’re going to ruin your life because of this.”

“Having a child is not ruining my life. I wish you’d stop being so selfish.”

“You think I’m being selfish. You’re decorating a nursery.”

“Which you wouldn’t care about if this baby I was carrying was yours. I don’t see what the big problem is. You’re screwing all the girls you can get your hands on. You think I don’t know about the entire cheerleader team being at your beck and call? You want me all to yourself that’s fine, but I will only have sex with you when I’m ready. All of the other girls and women from high school to the bars, to the club, all of it will stop. You will have to learn to keep it in your pants.”

“Don’t talk fucking stupid.”