When button-down biracial lawmaker Cassidy Uematsu meets hardscrabble fry cook Buford “Jax” Jackson, it’s lust at first sight. They’re only too happy to jump into the sack, and when Jax loses his condom mid-getting-to-know-you, Cassidy urges him forward, damn the consequences. What’s the worst that can happen?<br><br>After a couple weeks of morning sickness and a few months gaining weight, Cassidy learns an unfathomable secret about the men in his family that he’s pretty sure he was happier not knowing. Jax is a fan of Cassidy’s rapidly rounding belly, and of the sexy “Dude Mama” roleplay it inspires.<br><br>But the night he feels a kick inside Cassidy’s growing belly, Jax hightails it, certain at least one of them has lost his damn mind. A pregnant dude? That’s impossible. As the ninth month since the condom mishap approaches, Cassidy sure hopes he’s right.

Dude Mama

Hearing no response, Jax opened one eye.


“I do. I just live up on 13thand Penn, too.” Not that Jax had asked all that, Cassidy realized, but he couldn’t pass up the chance to establish that he was close by. Readily available, even if it was on short notice…


Cassidy shrugged. I guess. “What about you?”


“I thought you were here kind of a lot,” Cassidy riposted.


“Yeah, well, they pay me. What’s your excuse?”


Cassidy shrugged again. “Good beer. Food’s so-so.”


Jax raised an eyebrow. “Yeah, well, I hear the cook’s not that great. Seems he’s always out back doling out cigarettes.”


Here Jax dropped all pretense and deliberately, toes to top, undressed Cassidy with his roiled-sea gray eyes. When they met Cassidy’s espresso browns, he cocked that eyebrow again. “Lucky for us.”


Chapter 3