I almost couldn’t understand him, sure I’d heard him wrong.

But after a minute of him not saying anything else, I realized that I had not, in fact, heard him incorrectly. And he wasn’t joking. He had been very serious, and was now waiting for an answer from me.

“Like hell,” I got out.

He must have lost his mind if he thought that I was not only going to carry his baby for him, but also going to be the mother of the child. Why would that even ...