Lavender quietly shook her head. "No, he doesn't know anything about it. I just found out on Wednesday night when Cormac was here. I mean I suspected for awhile, but I never said anything to him. And I'm not going to tell him now. At least not for awhile. I don't want him coming back to be with me only because of it. I don't want that." She didn't want to be alone either, a single mother with a second child from yet another father, but she still had her pride. Malachi was the type of guy to try to make it work between them despite what he felt for her now.