Page 88 of Hunted Obsession

“It’s not for me to tell. I’m just going as support for Merrick.”

It’s my turn to laugh. “You mean as backup?”

“Basically.”

Then something ugly slides throughout my belly. “Don’t you dare let anything happen to you,” I snap.

He slides his hand around the back of my neck and gently squeezes me as he guides my face down toward his again. “Nothing could keep me from this bed, from your side, Luce.”

“It better not,” I mutter against his lips. “You’re the only person I’ve ever loved, Theron Henderson.”

He hums against my lips before he speaks, and when he does, a thrill of desire slides down my spine. “You’re the only person I have ever wanted to wake up beside. The only person I would buy for two million dollars without batting an eyelash. And the absolute only person I could fall in love with.”

My heart swells, and I wonder if I should tell him my news right now. I had planned on waiting until his birthday next month, but now that he’s going to be leaving, I think he needs to know. Or maybe it’s just the fact that I can’t keep this inside for another minute without bursting.

I hold my breath for a moment, then let it out slowly before I tell him what I’ve been holding inside for almost three whole hours.

My words come out in a whisper. My eyes fill with wetness, and then tears begin to fall down my cheeks in a steady stream. I can’t hold back the fact that I am going to have a baby with the only man I’ve ever loved. A man who I thought was lost to me. A man who I watched from a distance and wished would come back to me.

“You’re the only man I would make a baby with.”

His eyes widen as a deafening silence hangs between us. I watch him, waiting for his verbal reaction, but he just stares at me. Pressing my lips together, I try not to demand he say something. I need to know right now just what is going through his head.

Then, without saying a word, he pulls my head back down so that my lips are on his. Effortlessly, he rolls me onto my back, his hips fitting between mine. Staying silent, he slides inside of my body, burying himself to the root.

I wrap my arms around him and hold on, wishing I could look up into his eyes. I can feel the wetness of my tears sliding down the sides of my face and onto the pillow when his tongue slips out and swirls around my mouth, tasting me.

Theron’s hips move, his length sliding in and out of my body. I’m still sensitive from earlier and let out a hiss as he grinds his pelvis against my clit. Nibbling on my bottom lip, he breaks the kiss before he lifts his head and his gaze finds mine.

“My baby?” he asks on a downstroke.

Shaking my head once, I smile up at him. “Our baby, Theron.”

“Fuck me,” he growls. “I never thought I was capable of this or that I would ever want this.” He continues to move inside of me with every word he speaks. “But I don’t think I could ever be happier than I am in this moment.”

I lift my hands between us as a fresh wave of tears rolls down the sides of my temples to cup his cheeks.

“I didn’t think this reality was even possible. Thank you for choosing me, Theron.”

He shakes his head, his eyes searching mine for a moment, then lowers his head again before his lips brush against mine. “You didn’t give me much of a choice, Luce, but I’m thankful as fuck about that.”

I didn’t give him much of a choice, and if I could do it all over again, I would have tried all my tactics a lot earlier… like years earlier. But I know it all happened the way it was meant to happen, even if it felt almost like a form of torture at the time.

It’s perfection now.

Every minute of every day is better than the one before.

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