Page 129 of SINS & Riley
“So be it.” My hand slams across her ass, hard and merciless.
The second she resists, I pin her neck into the mattress and drag my belt free, slow enough for her to hear the leather hiss. Then my zipper. Every motion deliberate. “Is this what you came for?”
Her body thrashes, sobs tearing her words apart. “There’s something you have to know.”
I flip up her dress and strike the other cheek—harder. Hard enough my handprint will be there for a few hours. “You shouldn’t have come back.”
Her whole body convulses beneath me, shoulders shaking, chest heaving, sobs rattling through my grip. “You don’t understand,” she chokes, broken. “He’s out for blood. I came back to?—”
“To what?” I growl into her ear, pressing the weight of me against her. A cold laugh slips out, bitter. “To get fucked by a monster?”
I begin to slide her panties down.
Her sobs shred the silence, jagged and raw, her body trembling against mine.
“It’s Enzo,” she gasps. “I told him?—”
“Enzo?” I freeze.
If Enzo knows she’s with me, he’ll lose his goddamn mind. I just leveled a million-dollar building of his. She won’t be knocked clear by the blast.
She and the baby will be dead center in it.
What the fuck was she thinking?
“What did you tell him?” I shout.
Her voice fractures, splintering in the air. “I told him I was pregnant.”
The world goes silent.
Every vein in my body seizes.
And like a pressure valve blowing wide open—I release her. Pregnant. She told him she was pregnant.
My body collapses over hers, all power bleeding out.
“And I told him who the father is.”
Slowly, she turns, her beautiful tear-streaked face tilting toward mine. Her voice is a death blow.
“I said it was you.”
My lips hover at her ear, every word grinding out in fury and disbelief.
“Why, Pom? Why the fuck would you do that?”
Her answer carves me open, the slow twist of a knife.
“To save you.”
For a long moment, neither of us moves. The confession weighs heavier than chains.
Then, when my heart starts beating again, my lips press against her temple, breathing her in even as I want to shake her apart.
“That was reckless. Idiotic.”
“I know.”
