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“Caro?” His eyes filled with wonder.

That was one way to get him to drop the “Lady” appellation. She shook her head, acknowledging her pregnancy. “I am fairly certain, although it is early days.”

Jack slid down and kissed her stomach. Johnny ran over, plopped down, and taking it for a new game, followed suit.

She threaded her fingers into Jack’s hair. “I love you.”

He put a hand on their son’s back and answered in kind. “And I will love you until the end of time.”

Johnny pointed at his mother’s stomach and said insistently, “Papa kiss.”

“That’s your new brother or sister in there,” Jack told his son.

Johnny looked puzzled and then darted off to chase a butterfly.

Caroline tapped her lips. “Papa kiss.”

Jack smiled and inched up to do her bidding. “Next time we plan a picnic, we need to leave Johnny with his nanny.”

“Better yet, his nursery maid is coming in a half hour to take him home for his afternoon nap.”

“I don’t think I can wait that long,” said Jack, tracing a finger down the side of her neck.

She slid her hand down his side. “I’m afraid you’ll have to.”

“Damn,” he said as he rolled to his feet, then chased after his son.

Caroline watched her husband trot to rescue Johnny from the big gob of dirt he was ready to stuff in his mouth. At least she hoped it was dirt, but then she was too content to worry overmuch.

Jack grabbed his son and swung him in the air as he brushed the dirt from his hand. She rather fancied a girl, but another boy would be lovely too.

But more than that, she fancied the rest of the afternoon in scandalous bliss in Jack’s arms, because there was no other place she wanted to be.





About the Author



KATY MADISON has always loved stories and books. As a child she was always lugging a book around. In third grade, she fell in love with the romance genre when her mother fed her voracious appetite for books with a romance novel. Sidetracked by real life, a husband, kids, and a career at The Kansas City Star, where she authored a few incident reports and a system manual, she returned to her love of the genre with her breakthrough gothic romance, Tainted by Temptation.





Katy makes her home on a tree-lined street in Kansas City, Missouri, and thinks there is nothing better than curling up in front of the fireplace with a good book while a storm rages outside.

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