Page 164 of Savage Brothers MC: Tennessee Chapter

“You have to look at me to talk to me, Rory.”

“I’m afraid to,” she whispers and this time she’s staring at the wall.

Acid churns in my stomach and I struggle to catch my breath.Immediately my mind begins grasping for the reason this is happening and I imagine the million different things she could say—none of them good.I mentally prepare myself, knowing it’s not fair, but already positive that Rory is about to prove to me that I’ve been stupid for trusting her.

Fuck.I was going to ask her to move in and now this.Once a stupid son of a bitch, always one I guess.

“Just spit it out, Rory,” I tell her, tired of this cat and mouse game.I need her to just say it.I need to know what I’m dealing with.I need to know how bad this hit from her is going to be and just how much it will fucking cost me.

She jumps at my tone and I see her body tremble.I war with the guilt inside of me, immediately wanting to apologize.I don’t.I can’t afford to be weak here.I’ve been weak with her for way too long.

“Noah,” she starts and then sighs, not saying anything else and that’s starting to piss me off.I need to know what’s going on so I can begin dealing with the fall out.

“For God’s sake, Rory.Just spit it out,” I tell her, done with the waiting.

“I didn’t mean for it to happen, Noah.You need to know that.”

Christ.

Just hearing her say those words makes me sick to my stomach.Old memories swirl in my head, and so much of those memories are lethal.I keep that shit buried deep, but I carry it inside of me.With her words it all comes barreling through me, surging through my veins…poisoning me.

“Will you just?—”

“I’m pregnant, Noah.

Three words that completely destroy me and threaten to make my legs buckle underneath me.

Fuck.

Chapter36

Rory

“Don’t do this, Rory,”Noah says, and of all his reactions, I didn’t expect this one.

I’m trying to breathe shallow, the nausea slowly beginning to fade.I’ve been in denial for over a week, but I took a pregnancy test yesterday morning.

There’s no denying it now.

“Noah—”

“Whatever you got cooking in that fucking brain of yours, Gorgeous, do not do this.”

“I don’t understand.”

“What we have is good.I’m not going anywhere.Don’t fuck it up by lying and trying to tie me to you.”

“Noah, I…lying?What do you mean lying?”

“Exactly.Don’t pull this shit, Rory.”

“Noah, I’m not pulling anything.I didn’t plan this.I?—”

“There’s no way you could.We use condoms,” he growls and the look on his face and the tone of his voice is so cold, so full of… hate that I can’t breathe.“Ialwaysuse condoms and the reason I always use them is because of lying bitches likeyou.”

If he had slapped me in the face it wouldn’t have hurt more.I put up with a man doing me that way because I was trapped.I’m not trapped with Noah.There’s no brother in command, with an army at the snap of his fingers.There’s nothing to make me take it this time around.I am not helpless…and I never will be again.

“Get out,” I tell him quietly.

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