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baby being put in the middle of this mess.
    “I told Mason to have the doctors do blood and DNA tests on the baby,” Sawyer added.
    Grayson stayed quiet a moment. “You want the DNA compared to yours?”
    “Yeah.” Sawyer paused, too. “And if I’m not a match, then I’ll run it through the system to see if we can find out who is.”
    She wasn’t sure what to hope for. At least if the child were Sawyer’s, then she would have him to protect her.
    “Any sign of Bennie?” Cassidy asked. She moved even closer to Sawyer, until they were shoulder to shoulder. He noticed, glanced down at the contact between them and scowled. But Cassidy stayed put.
    “Nothing yet,” Grayson answered, and with that, Sawyer did hang up. Another glance at her had Cassidy moving back to her side of the seat.
    “You still haven’t forgiven me,” she mumbled. No surprise there. Sawyer wasn’t ever likely to forgive her.
    “What do you think?” he mumbled back.
    His voice was a growl, and it should have unnerved her. Along with that steely glare he was giving her. But sadly, even now, her reaction to Sawyer was a different kind of unnerving.
    The images of them naked in bed flashed through her mind. Memorable images. But with bad timing. Then and now. She had been his one-night stand.
    His decision, not hers.
    She’d known him for months before that one-nighter. Months of lusting after him. And when Cassidy had finally run into him at a party, they’d left together to go back to his place for that one glorious night.
    “I was attracted to you,” she reminded him. Still was. “That’s why I slept with you, not so I could get information about the investigation you were conducting on my brother.”
    “Right,” he grumbled. “But it was a nice perk that you got that information.”
    Cassidy swallowed hard. “Only by accident, because I overheard your phone conversation with your boss.”
    “Worked in your favor, didn’t it.” Not a question. He spoke it as gospel.
    And it was something she couldn’t argue with.
    She had alerted her brother about the investigation into his possible involvement with money laundering. Not intentionally but only because she’d questioned Bennie about it. She hadn’t wanted to believe he was involved in something so awful. However, Sawyer was certain that Bennie had used that info to cover his tracks so he couldn’t be arrested.
    Maybe he had.
    But when she’d slept with Sawyer, she certainly hadn’t known that was going to happen. An investigation had been the last thing on her mind.
    Sawyer pulled into the parking lot of the hospital, and he made more of those glances around before he got out and ushered her inside and to the E.R. The first sound she heard was a baby crying, and they followed that sound to an examining room, where she spotted a dark-haired man holding the baby.
    Cassidy actually dropped back a step. This guy had a deputy’s badge clipped to his belt, but with his desperado stubble and hard eyes, he looked more outlaw than lawman.
    “Hope you have better luck with her than I have,” the man said over the baby’s cries. “She won’t hush. Won’t take her bottle, either.” And he eased the baby into Sawyer’s arms.
    Despite everything that had just happened, Sawyer looked amused. Well, for a split second he did.
    “Your wife’s due any day now,” Sawyer said to the man. “Better get used to it.”
    The deputy grumbled something Cassidy didn’t catch and put the baby’s bottle on the table next to Sawyer.
    “This is Mason, my cousin,” Sawyer told her. “And this is Cassidy O’Neal.”
    Mason made a sound deep in his throat that she figured was disapproval. It was possible Sawyer had spilled all about their brief affair, and even if he hadn’t, she was sure her reputation preceded her. Most people thought she was a spoiled heiress. She was rich but worked plenty hard to manage the real estate investment business that her late parents had left her and her