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“I don’t need any of that stuff. I can—”
“Then what do you need, Hazel?”
I didn’t know how to respond, so I didn’t.
“At some point, you’ll have to forgive me. Because I’ll tell you right now, I don’t regret getting you pregnant, and if you’d let me, I’d do it again.”
“If you keep saying stuff like that to me—”
“You’ll what? Admit you’re still in love with me?”
I kept his intense gaze, once again announcing, “I don’t love you, Ledger. How many times do I have to say it for you to believe me?”
He stubbornly challenged, “I’m not the one who needs to believe it. You may hate me, I’ll give you that, but the truth is, you also still love me. It’s a very thin line, you and I.”
“You know what?”
“What, baby?”
I snapped, “I fucking hate you.”
“Great.” He deviously smiled. “Now say it again until you believe it.”
I could feel his heat searing into my body. I couldn’t take it anymore—it was all too much to process. I felt as if I was that eighteen-year-old girl all over again, completely at his mercy. Exactly how I craved.
He skimmed the inside of my thigh, my dress making it easy for him to do so.
I froze, locking eyes with him.
I cleared my throat, trying to steady my voice. “You’re obviously ignoring what’s blatantly in front of your face.”
He looked me up and down. “Sweetheart, you’re the only one who’s in my face right now.” Slowly, he slid his fingers higher. “What do you want to do about that?”
I had nowhere to go.
I could barely move.
“Because I can think of plenty of things to do with your sweet little mouth that loves to push all my buttons.”
“Beckham…”
“So I’m Beckham when my hand is near your pussy?” His pupils dilated, dark and daunting. “You’re not going anywhere unless I want you to.”
“You can’t keep doing this to me.”
“What’s that? Making you wet?”
“Ledger—”
“Oh, now I’m suddenly Ledger again?” With an arrogant smile, he called my bluff and my body’s natural reaction to him while his fingers caressed back and forth on the soft skin of my bare thighs.
My breathing elevated, simply proving to him that I was full of shit.
Reading my mind yet again, he added, “You can keep lying to yourself all you want, Hazel, but I know the truth. I can see it in your eyes, I can hear it in your voice, and I feel it”—he finally touched my core through the silk of my panties—“on your pussy.”
I sucked in another breath, leaning into his touch.
“You can think I’m an asshole for it, but I honestly don’t give a fuck. I’ve lost ten years with you, and I plan to make up for it. Even if it takes me the rest of our lives, I’ll prove to you how much I regret hurting you the way I did. I make no excuses for how I behaved. I was painfully wrong, and I know that now. I need you to understand how much I need you in my life. All I want, all I’m hoping for, is for us to be a family for our baby girl. With two parents who love each other and will give her the world.”
