"Those contracts were made because you were there, and we could trust you in our dealings." He grasped onto the business talk to keep the outright fear from having children close his throat off. The life he swore to live on his mother's grave put any children in a precarious place of losing a father.

He let out a breath. "Oh. Good. Alexa Stark just had a baby. Good to know it's not in Manhattan's water."