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For a moment, I forgot how to breathe.
Chapter Twenty
HAZEL
Nobody would believethis story if I told it to them.
I end up on the beach. Alone. At night.
In the dark, yes.
I go for a walk.
Why am I walking alone on the beach in the dark?
That doesn’t matter all that much right now, does it?
The point is, I’m walking alone on the beach in the dark and guess who I see?
Of all the people in the world, I see the man who got me pregnant.
Honestly, I would have been less surprised to see Santa Claus himself on the beach. In his red suit with his long white beard and his jolly belly bouncing as he screamed out ho-ho-fucking-ho to anyone who cared to listen.
But, nope, that’s not real. He’s not real.
What’s real?
“Atlas,” I whisper.
He walked toward me as I walked toward him.
This undeniable connection between us.
I blamed it solely on the pregnancy.
Of course we had a connection.
We made a baby together.
The life in my womb was created by both of us.
“What are you doing out here alone in the dark?”
His voice wrapped itself around me and pulled at me.
I resisted.
“Nice tone,” I said. “Hello to you too, Atlas. Anything else you want to yell at me about right off the bat here?”
He gritted his teeth and his eyes grew wide.
It was so obvious, Atlas had no idea how to deal with a woman. Especially a woman pregnant and hormonal. Or a woman who hung around past the orgasmic climax of whatever bullshit attempt at a date and night out he had to offer.
Not that I was clinging to him.
We ran into each other like this.
Solely an act of fate.
