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“Where are we going? It’s kind of late, isn’t it?”

“Well, we can’t go bar hopping due to your current condition…”

“First off, fuck you,” she said. “My condition? You mean me being pregnant? The pregnancy you caused?”

“That’s the one,” I said. “So I had another idea in mind.”

“Which is?”

“Come back to my place with me. Meet up with Hannah and tell her-”

“She already left,” Hazel said. “We were texting and I told her to leave.”

“Good. So it’s just us. Come back to my place. You can have my bed. All to yourself.”

Hazel took a deep breath and thought about it for a second.

“Okay,” she said. She pointed up to me.“But I’m only doing this because your bed is more comfortable than mine.”

Chapter Sixteen

HAZEL

I truly hadno idea what I was thinking when I agreed to go back to Atlas’s place with him.

On top of that, Hannah had been the one who drove us to the hockey game.

Which meant when I told her to leave, I basically hinted to her what my intentions were with Atlas.

That didn’t even occur to me right away either.

I definitely had what people calledpregnancy braingoing on.

Or maybe it was a combination of being pregnant and being near someone like Atlas.

I never met a guy who could scramble my brain like Atlas did.

Like I knew in my heart this guy was no good. I knew he was big, mean and angry, and loved to fight. He was not someone I could ever picture being with.

Yet when he looked at me, it was like I forgot my own name for a few seconds.

That explains why I’m pregnant, right?

I glanced over at Atlas as he drove.

His right hand completely swollen from the insane fighting all night.

But something kind of cool happened from all that.

As we were leaving the arena, there were some fans of the team lingering around near the back gates.

When they saw Atlas, they cheered for him.

Nice fight!

Welcome to the team!

You’re a badass, man!

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