Chapter Twenty -Two

Maverick

Maddox and I left Ivy at home while we checked into a hotel to discuss our options so we could convince Ivy to come back. My suggestion was to leave her here with her mother. No one knows she’s here, so she should be safe. Ivy would probably appreciate staying with her mother and Maddox and I visit when we can and when the baby is born, she comes and lives near us. We can’t force her to be with us, but we can force her to give us time with the baby.

“Are you going to be ok with not knowing who fathered the child?” Maddox asked.

“Yes, it’s probably better that way. It won’t cause any competition. I say we only find out if one of us wants out of this. I’m hoping Ivy will come back.”

“I think I want to know who the father is. I also think I’m going crazy.”

“Why do you think you’re going crazy?”

“I actually want this child. I swore up and down for years that I wasn’t father material, that children only complicate things, but a part of me thinks about my legacy when it comes t