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“She denied it, laughed it off like I was imagining things,” Freddy’s voice deepened as he looked away. He couldn’t meet my eyes…Jesus.“But I wasn’t imagining things, not things like that. I saw the way she moved when she forgot I was there, saw the way her hand cupped her belly, saw the way her fingers traced the fluttering in her belly. It was the exact same way Connie did. She lied to me when I confronted her, but I know without a shadow of a doubt, she’s pregnant.”
Something hit me.
Something big.
Like sledgehammer big…
Maybe it was even fucking Mars, leaving complete annihilation behind.
My breath left me. Frozen, I couldn’t move. Couldn’t think…couldn’t function.
You don’t want to go back, do you?My own words resounded.
No, I don’t. And I won’t be,she whispered in my head.
Pregnant.
She was fucking pregnant.
Pieces slipped into place. Pieces I hadn’t even known weren’t already fucking aligned. But my world shifted now, creating a whole new landscape, and in the middle of that new world was her. Pregnant her.No wonder she'd fought the connection we shared, wrestled with our love.
Because make no mistake, that’s what thundered through my veins…love.
Sharp, cutting talons curving deep into my chest kind of love. The kind of love that terrified me.
If I tried to remove it…it’d tear out my entire heart.
“What the fuck did you say?” the deep snarl came from the open doorway.
Hale took a step inside, his gaze fixed like a predator on Freddy. “MyKaterina is pregnant?”
My jaw tightened as his chest rose with a sudden breath.Katerina?I was starting to hate that fucking name. It wasn’t hers, not anywhere near hers. She was Kat, beautiful,perfectKat.
I could see it in his eyes. He was already branding her. Piece by fucking piece, he was laying claim to what was mine. Because if Freddy was right…ifthe woman who had my beating fucking heart in her grasp was pregnant—then there was no way possible I was the father.
I wasn’t the father.
I wasn’t the one to fill her with what was mine.
Hale took a step closer, those venomous eyes finding mine. Pride echoed deep inside him. A claiming took place right in front of my eyes as the corners of his lips curled slightly as he said the words I dreaded. “Then congratulations are in order, it looks like I’m about to be a father.”
All I could see was them.
Writhing.
Fucking.
Him filling her as she cried out his name.
All I saw was the blissful gleam that shone after we were done. A gleam she'd givenhim. Agony coursed through my chest as the blade buried deep. In an instant, the walls in the conference room closed in, the air wassuffocating.
“I came to tell you I’ll be taking command.” Hale seemed to grow larger by the second, swelling and consuming, eating the space around us with his presence as he glanced toward Logan. “I understand you have men on the ground on the mainland and I want their details. You will report to me…andonlyto me.Everythinginvolving Katerina is now mine.”
The fucking bastard looked at me when he said it.
And I’d never wanted to murder someone so badly before.
I'd never wanted to shove a gun into his mouth and pull the trigger.
