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She arched, her cries rippling through the room. He kept thrusting. Kept playing with her until she cried out again, louder, her walls pulsing around his cock as she broke.
Fuck, she was beautiful. He wanted to pause time. To freeze this moment with them exactly as they were.
He kept thrusting, kept watching the array of emotions play over her face. But too soon, his own body tensed and then shattered.
This woman was his world. And no one was taking her from him. No one.
CHAPTER 28
“This house is quite a distance away from town, Angel.”
Hannah cringed from the passenger seat. “I know. I wasn’t even going to show it to Owen because of how big it is, not to mention old. But there’s so much land for his bikes, and it’s so cheap, he could get a real bargain. I mentioned it, and he seemed interested, probably because of how much space there is.”
The place was a huge old mansion. It had been deserted for years, and the family had finally decided to sell. It shouldn’t be hard to unload, what with the low price, but it needed a lot of work.
Erik’s gaze shifted to the rearview mirror. Henry and Owen were driving behind them. Henry hadn’t broken up with Owen, and she wasn’t sure where his head was on that. He hadn’t mentioned breaking up with him since the morning at Erik’s house a few days ago.
“You know you didn’t need to come,” Hannah said quietly, taking Erik’s hand and holding it in her lap. “With both Henry and Owen here, I’ve got two guys looking out for me.”
The muscles in his forearm contracted. “They’re not trained. I am.”
She nodded. Erik hadn’t been more than one room away from her since the attack in her office, and he’d been tense and alert.
She turned her head to look out the window, her mind shifting to the thing she’d been trying not to think about for days. She wasstilllate. Every day, she woke expecting to get her period but never did.
She hadn’t taken a test yet, partly because Erik was always with her, partly because every time she even considered it, the fear took hold of her body, rendering her frozen. Fear that a positive test would mean the end of her and Erik. Either that or make him resent her.
He didn’t want kids. He’d told her that more than once and was so unyielding.
And she understood why. Losing a child before they were born… God, she couldn’t even imagine.
She peeked at Erik and chewed on her bottom lip. “Can I ask you something?”
“Anything.”
It took her longer than it should have to get the words out. “You thought you’d never heal enough to love another partner.”
“That’s not a question, Angel.” His thumb swiped her thigh. “But you’re right, I didn’t.”
The roof of her mouth was as dry as a desert, and she had to swallow a few times to make the words come out. “Have you ever wondered if maybe you could heal enough to have a child with me?”
His reaction was immediate. The muscles in his arms corded. The softness left his eyes, and his hand tightened on the wheel. “That’s never going to happen.”
Her stomach dropped. Never. No leeway. Nothing she could do to change his mind. “Erik—”
“I don’t have the capacity to take on that kind of responsibility, Hannah.” His voice was hard and low as he used her first name. “The sheer thought of having a child to protect scares me to death.”
She gripped his hand tighter. “It wouldn’t just beyouprotecting the child. I’d be doing it with you.”
“No.” The word was so hard and final. “I’m sorry. That’s not something I can give you.”
A sick feeling churned in her belly, and she almost wanted to place a hand over her stomach.
What would happen if it turned out shewaspregnant? What would he do?
She opened her mouth, not even sure what she might say. Worried the words “I could be pregnant right now” were going to fall from her lips like small explosions.
But Erik pulled into a long drive, and she looked up to see that they had arrived.
