Chapter 124

I spring off the table so fast I nearly break a heel.

“Where’s the bathroom?”

Aaron points to a corner of the room.

I rush over, still coughing and hoping he doesn’t smell or see.

When I get into the room I spit into the sink.

Blood.

Not a lot.

But enough.

Time is ticking. And no matter that I feel okay and the baby is growing, I’m still dying.

“Leah, you okay?”

It’s Aaron. He’s at the door. If I know him-and I do-he’s about two seconds from bursting

in here. “I’m good!”

I rinse my mo uth with water and spit.

AARON

Leah’s not acting right.

Maybe she’s shy.

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The s*x was phenomenal and she was completely exhausted afterwards, but we can’t exactly cuddle or curl up for a nap. At least not here.

There is a President’s Suite on the top floor. But that hasn’t been used since her old man started flaking off and I didn’t think she’d be as comfortable in that space.

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scrub my hands with

I stare in the mirror I hardly recognize myself. My eyes are

look like I’ve been thoroughly

for the blood and the pregnancy, I could pretend I

could laugh about what had happened and relish the naughtiness

and a baby who is going to enter a world of strife and change, who won’t have me to love and

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A

again, I wasn’t really ‘thinking’ when I f**ked

now.

mind

care that

L

knock on the

boy to knock before

flare, no doubt scenting

to apologize. I eye him hard. I’ll put his head through

member has been escorted from the premises. All clearances have been revoked and they’ve been locked

bathroom and has smoothed

like

to the head of the table and

should sit. I move to her right hand side and take the chair

laptop. He slides

picture of the

begins, “and the surrounding acreage

have over 16,000 acres of just irrigated

could sell it,”

She shakes her head.

a different plan. She pulls up drawings in quick succession. They’re

residential developments. “Housing,”

need to work, but most can’t afford that kind of mortgage. But they can pay

is way more than most people make in a year,”

sure,” she agrees. “But not in this part of the country.” Leah pulls up

than in 97% of the rest of

doesn’t look convinced. “So we just abandon the tech company? We have over a hundred engineers employed here as well as marketing, data analysts, consumer services…We have two government Defense

between them. I can scent the anger building in Liam. I wonder if Leah can, on

too.

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