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She shook her head, but the sobs were heartbreaking. They were wounding his soul.
“Baby. Come here. You have to talk to me. ” He picked her up, despite the stiffness in her body, and carried her back to the bedroom, where he sat down on the bed, holding her close.
“This isn’t like you, Janey,” he whispered. “Why are you crying, darlin’? You’re breaking my heart. ”
She cried harder. The sobs were heartrending, torn from her, despite her attempts to hold them back, and Alex had never felt so helpless in his entire life. He searched his mind frantically. Had he hurt her
during sex? Said or done something to hurt her feelings?
Were her emotions just messed up? That happened that time of the month, he knew, but he had never expected it to be like this from Janey. Not that he minded, but he had to blink back his own tears at the sound of her sobs, and real men didn’t cry like this.
“I’m sorry. ” She turned into him, curling against him like a frightened kitten, her arms tight around his neck, her body shuddering as her sobs became harder. “I’m so sorry. ”
“God, Janey, why?” He held her as tight as he dared, and yet he had a feeling she needed more.
“Sweetheart. What do you have to be sorry over?”
“I’m not. ” Another shudder and sob. “I’m not pregnant, Alex. I’m not having your baby. ” And the tears flowed hot and filled with pain against his chest. “I’m sorry. I failed. I failed. ”
Alex frowned. He gripped her chin and lifted her face, his chest clenching at the agony in her green eyes, and then he knew. He knew why she was crying; she was so filled with pain that Janey had finally, truly cried.
“Do you think a baby was all I wanted from you, Janey?” he asked, his voice husky. Dear God, how had he allowed her to believe something like that?
When she didn’t answer, his voice hardened. “Is that all you think I need—a fucking breeder?”
He was close to anger with her. The tears still fell, and her beautiful eyes were shattered. Because she thought that was all he wanted from her.
“We had a deal. ” Her breathing hitched. “You wanted a baby. ”
He laid her back on the bed carefully and rose. He took his time pulling on his jeans, keeping his back to her as he heard her breathing again on a sob.
“I love you. ” He said the words slowly, keeping his back to her, because he knew what he felt was so much more. But Natches had said sometimes they needed the words. He’d give her the words.
“You liar. ”
Alex turned in time to see her grab a glass he had set there earlier and throw it at him. If he hadn’t ducked, it would have probably laid him out on the floor.
But she wasn’t crying anymore.
“I don’t lie, Janey,” he snapped. “And the next time you throw something, I’m spanking you. ”
“Your spankings make me come,” she sneered. “Big whooping deal. Just let me put my shoes on so I can shake in them. ”
He propped his hands on his hips, glaring at her as she moved from the bed. She threw him a furious look. She didn’t bother to dress. A second later, a slender little finger was poking in his chest.
“You kept me because you thought I was pregnant,” she accused him. “You gave yourself, committed yourself to me just like you committed yourself to the military all those years. ”
Alex blinked back at her. “I left the military, Janey. I wouldn’t leave you. ”
Her eyes flamed in green fire. The light green darkened, sparked, raged.
“I’m not pregnant, Alex. You don’t have to let me own you anymore and you don’t have to lie to me. ”
“Accuse me of lying to you again, and I promise you, the spanking you get won’t make you come, baby,” he warned her, his voice quiet. “I said I love you. I didn’t keep you as you call it because I thought you were pregnant. ”
“Then why else?” She sent him a scathing look. “The daughter of a traitor, remember, Alex? Daddy’s perfect little girl that smiled sweet and did what Daddy told her to do. Why the hell do you think Augusta Napier thought I was corrupting you?”
“Hell if I know. ” He pushed his fingers roughly through his hair. “Because honestly, I was thinking I was corrupting you, while I had my dick shoved up your ass. ”
