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“Where’s your plate?” He looks around.
“In your hand. Those were mine.”
He blushes and puts down the plate. “Shite, I’m sorry.”
“Shite? You talk like that, too?”
“No.” He shakes his head. “Let’s just say all these shocking reminders of home are dragging me back to a place I couldn’t wait to get away from.”
I round the island, passing him, soaking in the musky smell of his skin.
“We have that in common.” I turn the burner back on and make two more pancakes. I get a little creative, sprinkling in cinnamon and adding fresh blueberries.
“Hopefully, you understand that and will let me go.”
“Not until the baby is born.” He eyes me, daring me to bring up our argument last night.
“Since you told me it’s a boy, I… I feel different. All the kicking. It makes sense now.” I flip the new batch, not looking at him anymore.
“We’re going to find out for sure today. I’m taking you to my hospital in the afternoon. I know who’s on that shift. She’ll do an ultrasound and—”
“I told you, they did one in the infirmary.”
He cocks his head. “Excuse me if I don’t trust a Las Vegas prison nurse.”
“I can’t argue there.” I glance at the clock. “When does Sophie wake up?”
“Any minute.” He finishes his pancakes and rinses off the plate. “That was delicious. What else can you cook?”
“I had fun making use of the kitchen in the villa. I never learned to cook growing up, but now I can cook pretty much anything.”
“Good. Feel free to use the kitchen and cook whatever you like while you’re here.” Darragh’s smooth, bare, honey-colored chest, and sculpted muscles take my breath away. “What? What are you staring at?”
“There’s another way you look different from Cormac.”
“How’s that?” When he crosses his arms, thick veins pop and bulge everywhere.
“Your twin is full of ink.”
“I noticed a few tats on Cormac’s neck. All my brothers have them.”
“There were quite a few more.” I swore he sold drugs to finish the skull-and-crossbones scene on his back. “He has ink on his fingers, too.”
“Do you have any tats?” Darragh gives me a once-over.
“You would have seen them. You saw me naked.” Heat swirls in my chest.
“It was overwhelming, and I didn’t get a good enough look at you—”
“The answer is no,” I bite out, the subject hitting a nerve. “I’ll save you the trouble of remembering. I was too scared it would hurt.”
“What about the drugs you did with Cormac?” he asks with an icy tone.
“It wasn’t hard drugs. It was pot and a few hits of crack here and there. Cormac injected heroine before we went broke. I wouldn’t touch that. But these creepy friends of his would show up…” My throat tightens. “That’s when we got kicked out of the villa.”
Darragh’s eyes darken.
“I had you kicked out. When I found out he was doing drugs there, I snapped.” He hovers over me, his skin glowing and smelling sweet. “I didn’t know you were there, too.”
