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her a little help here and there, but I refuse to watch her give her heart to a man who is not capable of returning her affection.
    I’d throw away years of friendship and even look for another VP to save her from more heartache. She’d grown up wanting love and not getting it; I’ll make sure she does even if I have to beat this man to death and find her one worth her heart.
    My tone and whatever he sees in my face alerts him to his mistake, and I watch him swallow before his face hardens.
    “You mind your wife and I’ll mind mine, Jasper. Fair warning: I won’t tolerate shit from you while I bring my woman to heel.”
    Huh.
    “Still got one nut in there, huh? Good for you. Break my sister’s heart and I’ll break every bone you own.”
    His smile is back in full force, and I laugh, feeling the world right itself once again. Good, now I can go back to worrying about my wife and the little monster I put in her belly.
    Love the kid, really I do, but the little bugger is draining my love.
    “What’s got ya so tense, man?”
    I release a breath and scrub at my neck, closing my eyes on a sigh.
    “Ash isn’t doing so well, the children are running wild, and my unborn child seems to be growing like a weed. The poor woman looks like she swallowed a beach ball, and she’s only just over six months along.”
    Brody whistles and purses his lips, giving me a pointed stare.
    “Dude, I’m gonna do something that’ll chap your ass, but it’s gonna win me some much needed respect with my woman.”
    “Yeah, what’s that?”
    “I’m laying down a grand and that winter place you got in France that your girl’s breeding more’n one little Jasper heir in her belly.”
    My face, I literally feel it pale as blood rushes out of my suddenly pounding head and settles somewhere in the vicinity of my gut, making me feel woozy and lightheaded.
    I’m up and out of my chair, running for the door without a word, when I hear Brody laughing heartily at my dilemma.
    Twins?
    Well fuck me.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Chapter Nine
     
    “Lucian, goddammit! Stop that shit right now and put me down!”
    “Shh, love, we’re just going to a doctor’s appointment,” he mutters, cradling me in his arms and carrying me to the waiting car.
    “Hey, Mrs Jasper.”
    “Hi, Harry, how’s your wife?” I ask, glaring at my husband when he attempts to buckle the seat belt around me and curses when it won’t go around my girth.
    Stupid cravings! I’m big as a freaking house, and he wants me to fit into this shit? As if I don’t feel gross enough as it is.
    “I have to get Mad from school and take her to her dance classes. I don’t have time for this shi—stuff today. Anyway, we were just at the doctor’s a few weeks ago,” I mutter, slapping his hands away when he goes for the belt again. “It’s not gonna fit, asshole, so stop trying already!”
    He mutters something obscene, a rarity, since he’s pedantic about not cursing in front of me unless he’s inside me and out of control, and settles for taking me onto his lap.
    “Harry, call Mavis and have her get Maddy from school and to her classes, and get Philip to swing by Benjamin’s school once he’s done with football. Stop squirming, love, it’s not doing any good,” he groans, trying to pull his crotch away from my twitching butt.
    Well, hello there!
    “Okay,” I sigh, relaxing all my weight onto his thighs.
    If he never wants to walk again that’s his business, not mine. My fat ass can’t help it if he insists on this macho crap.
    “What’s gotten into you?”
    “Love, haven’t you been wondering why you’ve…expanded so rapidly?” he asks haltingly, cringing when my eyes go molten and I glare down at him with a curled lip.
    “If this is your way of telling me I’m fat, you’d better let me off your lap before I do something you’ll never recover from, buddy!” I hiss.
    That makes him laugh. Yeah, like I really need to be amusing right now, and I