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His lips brushed against my ear.
I turned my head.
Our mouths met.
Sloppy for a second.
Then he pulled away.
“I’m not the man for you, love,” he whispered. “I’m not sticking around here.”
I groaned and let the words float around in my head.
Everything just felt too good to ask the most logical question.
He didn’t want to stick around?
Then what about the baby?
Chapter Seventeen
ATLAS
I couldn’t fallasleep for a variety of reasons.
First off, the couch wasn’t meant for a guy like me to be sleeping on.
I had a say in the kind of bed I wanted when I got the place, but as far as the rest of the furniture went, what the hell did I care?
Sleeping on the couch one time had been enough.
Now a second time?
Knowing Hazel was in my bed?
After everything I had felt on her…
Her body and pleasure in my hands. Literally.
The moment came and went, then she stood up and walked away from me.
I pictured her standing at the dresser, hands flat, slightly hunched forward.
Her beautiful, curved hips rocking left to right.
I knew in that moment how much more I wanted.
But I knew…
Anything else would have been too much.
We didn’t speak another word when I left my own bedroom to face the uncomfortable couch.
At some point, I turned on the television and saw highlights of the hockey game.
It was weird seeing myself.
“Check out this brawl later in the game,” a voice said. “This was like a heavyweight fight. Someone ring the bell! Look at these two going at it!”
