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“Oh, God.” Her hands clutched at his hair, and she kissed him with a hunger that seemed to match his own. The kiss was too brief though; in seconds, she was pulling away again. “No. Wait. God, Jax, we have to talk.”
He didn’t want to talk. He wanted her naked and under him. He could see everything he was going to do to her in his mind like strobe flashes against his closed eyelids. On his knees with his mouth fused between her legs and her pretty skirt over his head, trapping the scent of her in with him and blocking out the rest of the world. On the floor with her naked breasts moving on her chest like the ebb and flow of the ocean as he thrust within her. Pulling her lush body up until she straddled him on his knees so he could grip those plump ass cheeks and pull her into his every plunge. He saw her bent over the table, on all fours, and every other way imaginable.
“Jax,” she pleaded. “Stop.” It was one of the hardest tests of his control to step back. He held off with her, because what he felt was so intense he knew the moment he touched her he wouldn’t want to stop. And he’d been right.
Looking at her now was another test of his control. Her lipstick had given way to their kisses, leaving her lips even plumper than they normally were and sex-smudged. Her artfully styled hair was a tousled mess tumbling around her face and shoulders. Andie stood against the wall as if she feared her legs wouldn’t hold her, while she panted and pressed one hand to her heart as if she could slow its thundering beat, and since the moment he stepped back, her legs shifted restlessly like she was trying to ease the aching need between them. If ever a woman’s body was screaming “fuck me now and fuck me hard,” this woman’s was.
“I’m listening.” Jax let everything he was thinking show in his expression. “For now.”
“For now?” Andie looked at him with her forehead crinkled in confusion.
“Yeah. For now. You got about thirty seconds, but then I’m spending the rest of the night finishing what we just started here.”
“Oh.” A flush spread from her still heaving breasts up to her hairline, and Jax saw the muscles flex in her neck as she gulped. Fuck, she was hot.
“Before I moved here. Right before my uncle died, I was in Minneapolis for my old job. I had a training session there,” she told him. It was the last thing he expected to hear at a time like this.
“Okay,” he answered, unsure where this was headed.
“I went to the lounge in the hotel on my last night. I wanted to have at least one evening out before I left. The place was full, and I was going to give up and go back to my room, but just when I turned to leave, a man who was sitting alone offered to share his table with me.” Her voice, which had started out strong, was a shaky whisper by the time she finished, and it caused a sort of foreboding in his gut.
“Well, I took him up on the offer and one thing led to another—”
“Andie,” Jax said in a perplexed voice, “I didn’t exactly think you were a virgin. Why are you telling me this?”
“You see, well…” She hesitated and rubbed her palms nervously on her thighs. “God, I don’t know which bombshell to launch first.”
“Bombshell?” he asked with his brows raised.
“Bombshells,” she answered, nodding with an earnest expression. “I have two, and they are both doozies. I guess I’ll just give you the old one-two punch and be ready with smelling salts.” She sent him a smile that trembled at the edges as she tried to lighten the mood.
“Yeah,” Jax answered half joking. “Spit it out. What happened? Did he give you an STD?”
“Not exactly,” she hedged.
“Not exactly?” Jax felt a cold chill race up his spine. “What is that supposed to mean?”
“He gave me something, all right, but it’s not contagious—” Andie squinted at him and hunched her shoulders like she was bracing for an explosion. “—and I’ll be over it in about nine months.”
If she had told him she was the reincarnation of Cleopatra, she wouldn’t have surprised him more. Jax took the news like a physical blow and actually stumbled back a pace. “Wow, Andie. I did not see that coming.” With his mind racing, Jax had a million questions for her. The only problem was they were buzzing around in his head so fast he couldn’t latch onto a single one. They zipped too quickly for him to focus. Just as he opened his mouth for the third time with no sound coming forth, Andie landed that second blow she warned him about.
“My one-night stand was with Luke.”
Jax went rigid, and all his frantic thoughts froze in place. He whipped his gaze from where he’d been staring at Andie’s midriff to her worried face.
“Luke Baxter?” he asked, though he knew the universe was too unkind for it to be any other than him.
“Yes. That Luke.” She continued to look at him with eyes as big as saucers while his mind, which had been a nonstop whirl seconds before, was now as empty and desolate as a desert.
“How long have you known?” he asked while he felt as if he’d been gutted.
“I just found out today.” She made a move toward him with her arms extended as though she wanted to hug him. Jax didn’t think he had it in him to keep his cool if she touched him, so he stepped back with a tilt of his head that had her stopping in her tracks and whipping those hands behind her back.
“I swear, I didn’t even know I was late for my period or had any clue until today.” When Jax raised a brow at her in question, Andie continued. “I was on the phone with my friend Kiki, and I was complaining because of how tired and weak I’ve been feeling. Then all of a sudden, I just threw up for no reason. And it all fell into place.” She looked down at her feet then and said, “I ran straight for the drug store and took the test. Well, more than one, because I was hoping it was wrong. But it wasn’t. I’m pregnant.”
“I gotta sit down.” Jax added actions to words and fell into one of the kitchen chairs like his legs had lost the ability to hold him up any longer. “Did you…” He looked at her and dreaded the answer to his next question as much as he needed to ask it. “Did you tell Luke already?”
“Yes,” she told him as she pulled out a chair and sat across from him at the table. “I drove straight there from the drug store.”
