Chương 27: Chapter 27

Gunner had surely misunderstood. "I'm sorry. What did you say?"

"I said, I'll help you until you can take care of yourself. In return, you'll impregnate me."

"And the request is still just as shocking the second time." He focused on her inane demand rather than the pain throbbing all over his body. He'd been fighting it since he woke, doing his best to take stock of the situation, which was admittedly dire. But now also entertaining. "Are we talking artificial insemination or actual intercourse?"

"You provide the ejaculate, and I will handle the rest."

The statement drew a chuckle. "Are you going to use a baster to put it up there?" He couldn't help the mockery. "I'm going to dangle out over a fissure and predict you don't exactly have a lab with the equipment for fertilization and gestation."