Chapter One

This wasn't supposed to happen. They'd done everything right, taken all the precautions and yet somehow, someway…

This just wasn't supposed to happen, she decided. Dropping her head into her hands Elizabeth Spencer couldn't stop the shaking that had suddenly taken hold of her body. What in the world was she going to do? How was she going to explain that she was pregnant and it wasn't by her husband? Or should she say soon to be ex-husband. She wasn't sure why she was so surprised by what the doctor had told her. She'd been through this before, she knew the signs and yet all she could do was stare blankly at the white tiled floor and try and wrap her mind around what the other woman was saying to her.

"Elizabeth this should be good news. I know you and Lucky are going through some hard times right now but perhaps this is exactly the thing to bring you two closer together."

Elizabeth almost laughed at the absurdity of that statement but she didn't. Oh she knew Lucky would be thrilled to find out she was pregnant and it would last until he found out it wasn't his child. She'd never told him about her one night affair with Jason Morgan, even when they were trying to work things out between them and he'd been going to rehab. She'd made a promise to the blonde enforcer and she wouldn't have gone back on it for anything. Except now she was going to have to tell somebody, wasn't she? Jason deserved to know that he was the father of her child. But, at the same time her thoughts immediately ran to the very reason she'd kept herself and her son from him for the past two years. Though she knew that the man Jason Morgan was safe and as secure and true as any man out there, his job wasn't. And now they were bringing another life into this world, together.

As a mother could she really place her child in jeopardy by placing it in Jason's life? Even as she hesitated she knew without a doubt that she'd never be able to keep a child away from Jason. The man had gone through so much when it came to children and if there was any man in the world that deserved to have a child, it was Jason. They'd find a way to work around this, she was sure they could. Jason seemed to know all the answers to all her problems and she'd have to say this was the biggest problem she'd ever had to come to him with. Raising her head from her hands she settled them upon her stomach. There was a child resting safely in there, one that she and Jason had created. Jason. the man she'd always loved but never dreamed she'd be able to have, not as long as he was doing what he did for a living.

That night Jason wasn't lying when he said they had really lousy timing when it came to them being together and now they were going to be bringing a child into such timing. She couldn't help the smile that touched her lips as she began to think of that night. They'd never been so open with each other, both with their emotions and with their gestures. Sometimes, when she was alone at night she could still feel his hands touching her, caressing her and making her feel more loved and cherished then she had since she'd first married her husband. No, that was wrong, not even Lucky had ever touched her like that.

He'd made her feel like she was the only woman in the world at that moment. Like she was the only one he cherished and adored. He'd told her he appreciated her, no one had ever told her that or made her feel that way before. And now she was going to have his baby. For the first time since she'd been told the news Elizabeth actually felt a calming, almost joyous sensation envelope her. No mater what happened next, she knew that this child would be loved so deeply by its father that it would never want for anything. She wasn't expecting Jason to leave Sam, if they'd gotten back together that is, or even to be with her but she knew Jason would be there for her and the baby just as he'd been there for her so many times throughout their relationship. Jason Morgan was the one man she knew without a doubt she could depend on.

"The baby's not Lucky's," she glanced up at Dr. Meadows with that same sweet smile that she was known for, and it didn't falter one bit when the older woman looked at her with complete surprise. In fact she almost laughed but stopped herself and instead opened her mouth to speak again.

"Is there anything else I need to do today other than make another appointment?" She had places to go and better things to do than sit here and explain everything about her personal life to the good Dr. In fact the most pressing thing she had to do was to go tell the man that had so quickly become her best friend that he was going to be the father of her child.