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Hormones or not, I didn’t care.
“Nothing is your fault, Hazel,” he said. “But we need to get out of this apartment and be able to talk alone. Can we go to your place?”
“Yeah, sure,” I said.
Atlas turned and whistled. “Everyone out! Hazel and I are leaving so we can go talk someplace quiet and private.”
“Oh, I know what that means,” Rome said.
He wiggled his eyebrows.
Jago made anOwith his thumb and pointer fingers on his right hand.
Rome then slammed his fist through it and Jago screamed and laughed.
“Get out,” Atlas said.
“Wait,” Hannah said. “They can stay. With me. We can talk… hockey stuff. Big sticks. Being sweaty… and wet. Scoring…”
“You’re pathetic,” I called out to Hannah.
“And you’re pregnant,” she said.
I had no idea why that comment made me laugh, but it did.
Atlas took advantage of the moment, put his right arm around me and pulled me close to him.
My first urge was to elbow him and put distance between us.
Then I smelled his shirt. Then I smelled his skin. Then I felt the sheer strength of his arm holding me. Protective.
I feared getting pregnant by Atlas was the least of my worries.
Chapter Eleven
ATLAS
I followed Hazel.
I thought about one thing the entire time.
Pregnant.
I wanted to see her stomach. I wanted to touch her stomach. I wanted to feel what I felt and make sense of everything.
Because nothing made all that much sense at all.
I then ran some options through my head.
Can I sue Ellen and her billionaire family for this? Can I go after everyone involved in my trade to the Sola Empire? I bet I can find some sleazy lawyer who would love to take a case like this one just so he could see his own face plastered all over social media.
HOCKEY PLAYER SUES BILLIONAIRE HOCKEY OWNERS OVER UNEXPECTED PREGNANCY OF THE WINNER OF A ‘WIN A DATE WITH A HOCKEY PLAYER’ CONTEST!
The headlines had the chance to write themselves.
Then again, anyone who knew me knew I didn’t like the spotlight. I didn’t need cameras in my face. Questions asked. Of course, the same for Hazel too. She didn’t deserve to be treated as though she did anything wrong.
And even if I did it… I sue and win and turn this into a spectacle more than it already is… then what? Hazel will still be pregnant. Pregnant with my baby.
