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“I can go make you your own bowl.” Blake hopped up, dusting her hands on her yoga pants and leaving an orange smear.
“No, you don’t need to do that.” Callahan sat down beside Axie. “I ate a really late lunch with Maddi.I’m not really hungry.”
“Yeah, but if Jasper finds out we didn’t try to feed his baby mama, he’ll get all pissy.” Blake made her way into the kitchen and then came back tossing a banana her way. She held up a jar of peanut butter with a wink. “I hear this is your fav.”
She settled in beside her new friends and peeled the banana, dunking it into the peanut butter and trying to figure out what their ridiculous movie was even about. There was a clown, but like cotton candy cocoons and a spaceship? As she was about to start asking questions, the patio doors opened and three sweaty men walked into the room.
Jasper’s chest was heaving, like he’d only stopped running once he reached the yard. His skin was glistening and she could smell his yummy scent from all the way across the room. “You’rehome. Didyou eat?”
She held up her banana as Blake snickered beside her. “Told you.”
“Told her what?” He came farther into the room, wiping his face with a towel. Jace picked up Axie and placed her inhislap while Riley came out of the kitchen draining a large bottle of water. He glanced down at the tub of popcorn and made a face of disapproval,which Blake promptly ignored.
“I told her we had to feed her oryou’dget pissy.” Blake palmed more popcorn into her mouth, smiling at Riley while she chewed messily.
Callahancould feel Jasper’s gaze on her, smell his scent. She was afraid to look at him, half dressed and gorgeous. She was having a harder and harder time trying to control her hormones when it came to him.
She knew how good he could make her body feel. Sheknew how amazing it would be. She also knew with sex came consequences, and some of those consequences were too high a price to pay. He already slept in her bed every night,rubbingher hips until she fell asleep. She refused to blur those lines even more by giving in to her silly whims.
“Do you want something else other than thatorare you ready for bed?” He glanced down at his watch, the movement making her gaze jump to his dumb biceps. “I want to shower,but then I can come rub your back.”
“I’m fine.” She got to her feet, feeling out of sorts in a way she wasn’t used to. “I’m full, and yeah, I am really beat. It was a long day.I’m going to go ahead and get to bed.” He took a step, like he was going to follow her, so she held a hand out to stop him. “No. Youtake your time or shower,or uh, I don’t need…I’m fine. Myback is great. Thanks.”
She left the roomwhile notmaking eye contact with a single one of them on her way up the stairs. She was acting insane. Shesounded insane. Sheknew that. She couldn’t stay downstairs and play the fifth wheel, or worse have Jasper come sit next to her and start rubbing her hips or trying to make her smile.
Even him caring whether she’d eaten, it was too much. She couldn’t start to fall in lustorlove with the father of her child. They agreed to co-parents and shit, she thought as she rolled her eyes.
That was the agreed-upon plan and she refused to be the one to mess it all up. Life was already too complicated.
“Hey, what was that? Are you okay?” Jasper was in her doorway, having followed her whether she wanted him to or not.
Childishly, sheput her hand over her eyes, holding out a hand again to trytostop him from getting any closer to her or her hormones. “I’m fine.”
“Callie,you’recurled up on the bed with one had over your eyes and a peanut butter banana in the other.” She felt the bed dip, damn him. “You don’t seem fine.” He pulled her palm from her face, a playful smirk on his face. “What’s going on?”
She looked at him, really looked at him.
It was an indulgence, and one sheshould’vecontinued to avoid if she knew what was good for her.
His shirt was still off, his hair a disheveled mess. He was tan and put together inthe mostperfect way. Gorgeous. No doubt about it. He knew what to do with everything he had going on too.
More and more often, she was recalling their night together. She’d feel hertemperaturestart to rise. Shenow knewwhatdesire felt like and it was hard to ignore. Harder still with him in front of her being sweet and offering to rub her down as she fell asleep.
She was hormonal and constantly unsure of her next move, which was proving to be an intoxicating mix.
Chapter Thirty-One
Jasper
Jasper hadcome back from his run happy to seeCalliewas home safe and sound, and eating. His wolf had a thing about making sure she fed the baby. His wolf had increasing demands when it came to their offspring. Then she seemed to lose her cool a bit and she all but sprinted up the stairs to her room. He’d followed her to make sure she was okay, and also to make sure she didn’t end up tripping on the stairs in her rush.
He tried not to laugh assheput both palms over her eyes once again. “Can you not, um, can you put a shirt on?” Her heart was pounding, he could hear it. She was sweating too, but she did that sometimes. He figured it was the pregnancy. The hormones and the changes in her body. This though,what was going ontonight, this was different. She was flushed and her pulse was racing, her breathing shallow. Now she was asking him to put a shirt on? If he didn’t know any better….
“Are you turned on right now?” He couldn’t help the smirk on his face. She was stunning, and he’d wanted her againtwo beats aftershe’d climbed out of his bed all those weeks ago.
He’d jackedoffover and over to the memory of them and their one night together. He hadn’t hit on her,andhe hadn’t tried anything.
She was pregnant. Theywere going through so muchwhiletrying to figureouttheir future. For once in his life, he’d wanted to do right by someone. He wanted to be who she needed.
