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Katherine POV

Monday morning rolls around too fast. I drop the girls off at school and head home again. I have Dr Davis covering for me today. Technically, I'm still supposed to be in Stillwater.

I settle down in my reading chair with a cup of coffee and my favourite book. Pride and prejudice. It's an old worn copy with upturned corners, dog tagged pages and greyed footnotes. I think I've had it since I was seventeen.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Huh? I scoff at this and ponder Jethro's situation. He certainly doesn't want a wife. Came close once.

My brother Nathan is the best example of how off the mark Jane Austen really was. But back then ...

"Hello Jethro," I answer my cell. It disrupted my pondering over Jane Austen.

"Hiya Kat, you home?"

"Where else would I be?" I answer sarcastically rolling my eyes.

"Good, see ya in a few." Grrr! Once again he disconnected the call. Geez, he really frustrates me when he does that.

He certainly won't just knock on the door. So sit here reading more of my book. There's no use beginning to wonder how pride and prejudice relates to my world this year. Knowing he will be her very shortly.

"Kat, you here." He pokes his head in the door, letting himself in with his spare key. "We need to talk about some stuff. The girls at school?"

"Of course L-J you know I don't let the girls randomly skip school because I have the day off."

"Good, I wanted to talk last night but this has the potential to cause an argument and we don't do that in front of Zoe and Lucy."

"What is it Jethro?"

"Sit down, I need to talk to you about something very serious."

"L-J you're scaring me."

"Don't be scared Kat! It's just things are great between us at the moment and I was wondering how you'd feel about having another baby." He takes a breather and my mind catches up. "I'd like a son, someone I can teach to play soccer and tennis. And sailing. I'd like you to be his mother. And if it's a girl, that's great too. As long as you're the mother!"

Wow! A baby! Could I do this? I haven't had a baby in 8 years.

"Think about it, get back to me." And with that he kisses me. Hard and passionately. I felt his tongue gently brush mine. Suddenly his hands move gently from my face into my hair and down my back.

Gasping for air, I break off the kiss slowly and realise he has managed to maneuverer me into laying on the sofa while he is on top of me.

"I can't think while you're kissing me senseless."

"I always did like kissing you senseless." He gives me a very smug smirk and looks down at our bodies and back up at my face. "I love you Kat!" He whispers.

"I love you too."