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Eric’s throat. “You think I haven’t tried to figure out how to go on without her? That I don’t know how broken I am with her gone? I have and I do. I just don’t know how to go on without her. I don’t WANT to. Every day, I wish I’d been the one to go in her stead. Each and every lousy day, Jeff. Now, I’m facing fatherhood to those babies she wanted so badly, without her and I don’t have a clue how to deal with it… All I know is that I have to FIND a way… because I gave Victoria my word that I would be a father to the tiny little lives we created in that damn lab that day.”
    “Well… for the sake of your child … or children… If you really mean that, you’d best find a way to pull your head out of your ass, big brother. Because if you’re honestly going to be any kind of a father, you are going to need to be a whole man. Otherwise, your son or daughter is going to grow up not knowing how to love.”
    Eric sighed heavily and nodded his head in begrudging agreement. In his head, he knew that his little brother was right. The hard part would be getting his stubborn broken heart in the game. He had a scary feeling it would be the hardest thing he’d ever forced himself to do.

Chapter 4

 
    The last two weeks had been Hell on Earth for Madeline. She’d been through every emotion in the book at least five times each. Her friends had been understanding but nothing they had said or done had been enough to shake her worry that something horrible would happen and the expensive procedure she’d put herself through wouldn’t take.
    She sat on the edge of the examination table in the clinic, playing with the edges of the cloth gown she was wearing, looking nervously over at the woman who was silently standing at the counter with a vial in her hand, wiggling it back and forth to shake its contents. Madeline’s eyes followed the plastic container as if she would have a clue what the color change the liquid inside took, meant.
    Swallowing hard, she watched the woman’s facial features, trying to read her expression one way or the other. Finally giving up, she cleared her throat and asked.
    “Well?”
    The woman looked over her shoulder and offered a smile. “The test looks good. I’m going to have my assistant bring in an ultrasound machine to confirm, but it looks like the procedure was a success.”
    A broad smile covered Madeline’s face as she lay back on the paper sheet covered bed. “Will we be able to tell how many babies I’ll be having?” she asked excitedly as she gripped the paper on either side of her body; anxious for that first chance to catch a glimpse of her unborn child or children.
    “Assuming the test is correct, unless one or more are hidden behind each other, yes. I believe it’s early enough in the game to be able to see how many of the eggs took hold.”
    Madeline’s eyes stared unblinking at the monitor as the doctor dragged the scanner over her flat belly. The wand paused as a group of cells showed up on the screen. “Well, hello there,” the doctor said, patting Madeline on the shoulder with the hand that wasn’t holding the wand. “We definitely have one that took,” she assured the excited new mommy to be.
    After carefully examining the remainder of her uterine wall for any more embryos, the doctor turned the machine off. “Well, one is better than none. Congratulations, Madeline. You’re going to be a mother. My advice is to choose a personal OBGYN as soon as possible and get in to see them. I’ll write you a script for prenatal vitamins. Do let us know how everything turns out…”
    “Oh, I will,” Madeline assured the woman excitedly. “Will you thank Doctor Novak for me?” she asked, as tears of happiness filled her eyes. The man who’d extracted her eggs had been a God send, and she knew that since he was also the man who’d told her about the sperm donor program in the first place, that she owed him a lot.
    Promising herself that she would send the