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Irritation slams into me so fast I pivot, with the intention of chewing his ass out for being another asshole cop wanting to push off a hard case because he doesn’t want to deal with it.
But that isn’t what happens.
My lower abdomen clenches up, tightening to such an excruciating degree that I feel a repeat from half an hour ago coming on. My teeth snap together, locking my jaw so I don’t scream out in pain, but I swear to God if he wasn’t here, that’s exactly what I’d do.
I need to scream. I want to scream.
Fuck!
This hurts like nothing I’ve ever felt before.
My eyes shut, bracing for the impact my body is about to encounter with the hardwood floor. Yet, it never comes. I land on the ground, but I don’t hit the floor. Eric wraps his large arm around my middle and I end up sitting in his lap. My stomach still feels the hard land, but not as bad as it could have been if he wasn’t here to catch me, taking the brunt of the fall to the ground himself.
“What the fuck?” His hot breath coats the inside of my ear, making me squirm and tingle at the same time. “I thought you said your doctor released you?”
I relax against his hard chest. For a minuscule moment, he feels familiar; like Drago. And for that brief second, I let my mind pretend he is.
“Bri,” he says, his voice softer. “Are you okay?”
“She did. I am fine, it’s just—”
“It’s just what? This doesn’t look like you’re fine. You’re definitely not fine, Bri.”
“I am fine. But apparently, my miscarriage isn’t completely done like I thought, so I have to go through the motions until it is.”
I take a deep breath as the last of the cramps pass. Then I look over my shoulder, seeing everything I don’t want to see.
Not now.
Not ever.
“Don’t look at me like that.”
Pity.
I don’t want fucking pity, but that’s exactly what’s looking back at me through those deep dark eyes of his.
“How did you get here so fast anyway?” I ask, changing the subject. He had to have been in the area to get here so quickly.
“The field office isn’t far from here. I was wrapping up some documentation before I was going to head to the airport to pick up my parents.”
“They don’t live here?”
“Nah. They’re currently in Virginia, which is usually where my sister and I go, but Dad has some business to do out here.”
“What does he do?”
One of his eyebrows lifts.
“Getting personal for someone I’ve only known for a day, Detective.” He smiles down at me, showing off his perfectly pearl-white teeth. From this angle, he’s certainly more attractive when he smiles. He looks more boyish and carefree when the dimple on his right cheek displays. “Let’s get you up. Yeah?”
I nod, then Eric pushes off the floor, standing us both up. He steadies me before removing his hand.
“Thank you,” I say genuinely, not as ticked off at him as I was earlier.
“You have a hot backside. I’d be an asshole if I had let you land on it.” He laughs, but his words trigger a memory.
Hot piece of ass.
