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I gritted my teeth, locked down my emotions, and continued with a dead calm in my voice. “You’re pregnant with my child. Why didn’t you call me?”
Her eyes flashed with hurt and defiance as she faced me head-on.
Finally.
Tension crackled between us like electricity, almost palpable.
Sophie’s eyes blazed with fury—shining more brightly, like an exploding star.
My little kitten was showing her claws.
My little sassy star was finally back.
“You sent me away when I wasn’t ready to leave, Gabe!” The raw hurt in her voice cut through me like a knife. “And now you’re a complication I don’t want.” She threw my own words back in my face.
A complication?
She was calling me a fucking complication?
My hiss pierced the air when I got in her face.
Her anger was a force to be reckoned with, radiating from her in waves, but beneath it, the raw pain in her eyes was unmistakable.
Fuck.
My righteous anger deflated like a balloon with a bullet hole.
She’d been hurting all this time, and it was entirely my fault.
We locked gazes, our breathing heavy and labored as our silent staring contest continued.
I drank in the sight of her—even furious, with fire blazing in her eyes, she was the most beautiful woman I’d ever laid my eyes on.
Especially furious.
I wanted to touch her—her pale cheeks, the curve of her lips—wanted to run my fingers through the golden strands of her hair, framing her face.
She was everything I didn’t want to want, but everything I needed.
I’d tried to live without her, tried to erase her from my thoughts.
And without her, I might’ve just been the most miserable I’d ever been.
From now on, I refused to live without her, refused to spend even a day without her by my side.
And I needed her to get on board with that.
I continued to stare until Sophie sighed and broke our intense stare, punctuating the tension between us. “What will you do if I tell you I want to leave, Gabe?” she asked, her voice barely above a whisper.
My heart clenched, and I looked her straight in the eyes.
No sense in prolonging the inevitable.
“Leaving isn’t an option,” I told her, my voice firm, laced with steel. “Now that you’re pregnant with my child, your fate is sealed. Your place is by my side, whether you want it or not.”
I could feel the weight of my words settling between us, like a weighted blanket of truth burying us under its weight.
The reality of our situation was undeniable—we were forever entwined, for better or for worse. And as much as I wished for Sophie’s happiness, I wouldn’t let her go.
