Intimate Secrets (The Love and Danger Series) by Elizabeth Lennox

for myself.”
    He rubbed his hand over his face, the fatigue and shock just starting to bear down on him.  “I agree we need to talk.  But maybe we should do it tomorrow when we’ve both had a chance to sleep on everything.”
    Amy nodded her head, crossing her arms over her stomach nervously.  “That sounds like a pretty good plan.” 
    “Do you have an extra blanket?”
    That was a surprising question.  “Yes.  Why?”
    His hands on his hips challenged her.  “Because I just discovered that I’m a father.  I know some crazy person is trying to get to you and there’s really no way in hell that I’m leaving you here alone.  I would cart both you and Lilly off to my place where I can protect you better, but my place isn’t equipped for a baby.  So I’ll sleep here on the couch until we figure out a long term solution.”
    She backed up a step, horrified at his proposition.  “Sleep on my couch?” she asked.  “You can’t do that!”
    He raised his eyebrows.  “Do you have another option?” he asked, his eyes moving down her gorgeous figure. 
    She quickly shook her head , indicating that he couldn’t sleep here more than she was denying that she had another option.  “You sleep at your place and we’ll talk tomorrow morning.”
    He dismissed that suggestion with a wave of his hand.  “No way am I walking out of here with the two of you unprotected.  I’ll sleep on the couch.”
    Her eyes took in his enormous frame, her mind immediately going down a different road until she mercilessly pulled it back again.  “You’re too tall, too big.  I don’t even have a sofa.  It’s just a love seat.”
    He’d already noted that, but it made no difference.  He wasn’t leaving Amy and Lilly unprotected.  He was a cop.  He knew all the horrors that could happen and he wasn’t going to leave these two ladies alone.  “I’ll be fine.  If you’ll just get me that blanket.”
    She looked up into his brown eyes and shivered, remembering too many events in that very same love seat before…
    Shaking her head, she moved up the stairs.  Grabbing the spare blanket, she brought it back downstairs along with her extra pillow.  She actually only had two and she used both at night, pulling one up close to her body, but he wouldn’t know that.  When they’d slept together, she had snuggled up to him.  The pillows… in fact, the sheets and blankets, had rarely stayed on the bed after their extremely physical encounters.  But they’d always been too exhausted to notice, much less even care. 
    “Here,” she handed the blanket and pillow over to him grudgingly.  She thought he was overreacting.  This stalker person hadn’t come close to her hou se.  There was no reason for Walker to stay here, but she couldn’t push him out. 
    She watched him as he unfolded the blanket and contemplated her love seat.  It was almost amusing to watch him try to figure out how to get his enormous body onto that small piece of furniture.  But in the end, her thoughts were swerving into dangerous territory and she knew it would be better if she got out of the man’s proximity.  “Good night,” she said and hurried up the stairs before he could say anything else to her. 
    Walker watched her race up the stairway , his eyes taking in her lush figure once again.  Okay, so he’d looked at her earlier, but he’d been too furious with her to really appreciate her body.  And all the changes that had occurred.
    Wow!  The totality of those changes suddenly hit him right between the eyes.  Thinking of those changes, he dropped down onto the love seat, staring up at the ceiling.  And then another thought hit him.  Just one floor away, his tiny little daughter slept!  A powerful surge of love and fear struck him full force and he could barely breathe for several moments.  A daughter!  The idea hadn’t ever occurred to him.  Even last year after Amy told him she was pregnant, he hadn’t let his mind