Page 108 of Sins or Secrets
“I am.”
“Thank you. How about you show me just how proud you are by eating up.The sea is calling us.”
I rub my stomach. “Logan Savage, I can not eat another bite.”
“Oh come on. Please tell me you aren’t worried about your weight.I swear earlier when I was looking at your ass I was totally thinking of something else entirely.”
“You are so crazy. I’m not worried about my weight.If I eat any more I’ll have a food baby.” I chuckle and point at the little bulge in my stomach.I really had eaten too much. Any more and I’d have to cover up.Then wearing this little bikini would be for nothing.
Logan gives me a look as he glances down at my stomach.I can’t quite figure out what the look means.It’s not a bad look because there’s a little smile on his face, but there’s a dullness that’s suddenly filled his eyes.
“Well, at least I get to fill your belly with my food babies,” he states staring at my stomach.
I know exactly what he’s thinking now.It’s confirmed when he reaches out and places a hand on my stomach, and I remember the baby we nearly had.
Tears are never far when I remember, and the memory is always in my mind.
Slowly his gaze climbs back up to meet mine and I can tell he has questions he’s probably held off asking.
“How far along were you?” he mutters.
“Nearly three months.”
He gazes out toward the sea. “Did we have a son or a daughter?”
I almost didn’t want to know when I woke up from the accident.It took a month after for me to work up the courage to call the hospital and find out.I thought it would torment me if I didn’t know.
“We had a daughter,” I reply, and he looks back to me.
“Oh, wow. Christ. I would have been a super strict dad.”
“Would you?”
“Yes, of course, I would never allow those evil boy creatures near her.Look what I got up to with you.No doubt she would have looked exactly like you, so I would have had my work cut out for me, and my guns nearby to scare the little fuckers away.” He gives me a withered smile.
“I’m sorry it never happened. You would have been a great dad.”
“I’m still her father. Just because she’s not with us anymore doesn’t mean I didn’t get to be her dad.I’m still here, and she’s still my baby.”
My heart breaks as he gazes at me and his eyes become glassy.
I reach out and touch his handsome face, and the walls around my heart start to chip away a little bit at a time.
“That’s beautiful.”
“It’s truth.”
He cups my face too, and the parts of me that used to remember what it felt like to be hisawaken.
“Come on,” he adds. “Let’s goswim.No more talk of death. This day wasn’t supposed to be aboutthat.I wanted to have fun withyou.”
I smile back at him. “Then let’s have fun.” On my word, the sexual haze that was previously lurking around us comes back, but this time with a force that draws me closer tohim.
Quinn
We played around in the sea like old times. Swimming around looking for shells on the sea bed.
It was like I’d just slipped back into my old self from ten years ago. And, so did Logan.
