Adopt-A-Dad. Marion Lennox

“No way. I’ll lose my baby.”

      “For this to work, you’d have to trust me.”

      “I don’t trust anyone,” she said flatly. “Not where my baby’s concerned.”

      “You need help, Jenny.”

      “You’re proposing to hide me in the basement until Gloria goes away? She won’t. Now she knows where I am, she’ll be around forever.”

      He smiled. “I don’t think hiding in a basement is a sensible solution.”

      “No, but…” She shook her head. “Believe me, there’s nothing you can do. There’s no possibility I can stay here legally, and now the immigration officials are aware of me, I have to move on.”

      “There is one thing you can do.”

      “Which is?”

      “You can marry me.”