“Are you okay with this?” Lucy asked him, concerned that he wasn’t thinking things through. The truth was that he probably wasn’t. “I know Violet is on to us, but this complicates things immensely.”

“No it doesn’t,” James shook his head. “I know exactly what needs to be done and I’m going to make sure that it happens.”

“What does that mean?” Lucy asked him, putting a hand on his chest. She didn’t like what she was hearing and she was afraid her worst possible fears were going to be imagined. “If you cancel the engagement, then the tour will end,” Lucy said with a concerned tone in her voice. “You’re going to be ruining the lives of everyone that has had a part in it. Your entire band will go under from it. You know how much money is wrapped up in this.”

“What does it matter?” he asked her with a frown on his face. “I don’t care about any of that. I’m going to be a father and I need to do the right thing and I need to be with you during all of this.”

“I am fine,” she assured him strongly. “But the right thing isn’t going to be that you devastate all of those around you. All of your friends in the band are expecting this tour to take you to the next level. You can’t throw that all away because of me.”

He looked at her with a frown on his face. The excitement was being sucked out of this moment and she knew it was cruel, but he was just catching up to what was happening and he wasn’t in on all of the thought that had been happening behind the scenes. He was late to the game and it was time that he was brought all the way up to speed and got in on the real action.

“What would you have me do?” he asked, letting out a sigh and clearly giving in to the demands of the woman who had been thinking things through since the moment she found out she was pregnant. She was glad he was being cooperative with all of this. She knew it must be hard and that he was going through a thousand things right now trying to catch up.

“Don’t tell anyone,” she urged him. “Don’t say anything. If we can keep our affair and our pregnancy to ourselves and keep it a secret, I’ll just wait until I can’t work anymore and then I’ll leave and head back home. Once I’m gone, you can make up any reason you want to leave the band, but you can’t do it before then. You have to keep the peace and you have to make sure that everyone keeps their job until then.”

“That’s a tall order,” James said, furrowing his brow. “I want to talk with you and I want to spend all of my time with you. I can’t think about anything other than you and I feel like I’m losing my chance to get to know you better and spend time with you. It’s like it’s all being ripped away from me and I hate it. I want to have a chance to explore my own life and to have everything that I want. I don’t want people defining my life anymore.”

“They don’t,” Lucy said, kissing his lips softly and looking into his eyes. “They just think they do. All they have to do is think that you’re theirs for a little while longer and then we’ll have our lives together. We’ll be able to spend our days with each other and we’ll be able to do anything that we want. We’ll raise our child together and no one is going to tell you what to do.”

He smiled and kissed her on the lips. She sank into that kiss and she could feel her whole body longing for him.

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