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

eyes are bright. My hair

I’ve

blood and the pregnancy, I could pretend I was an average twenty-something engaging in

happened and relish the naughtiness

to enter a world of strife and change, who won’t have me to

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‘thinking’ when

now.

mind where this female

weird when I mentioned children. But that is the inevitable outcome for us. I don’t care that she’s human. That alone should convey that I’m invested in her and our marriage. Why else would I consider

L

on the door

to knock before

no doubt scenting that we’d had

for him, seeing as how it’s his sister and all that. But I’m not going to apologize. I eye him hard. I’ll put his head through that conference table if he makes Leah feel embarrassed in any

All clearances have been

out of the bathroom and has smoothed her hair

don’t like

to the head of the table

hands indicating that we should sit. I move

sits and opens a laptop. He slides it

picture

“and the surrounding acreage of

over 16,000 acres of just irrigated pasture on our

sell

She shakes her head.

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

developments. “Housing,”

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

or lease is way more than most people make in

of the country.” Leah pulls up another set of charts

in 97% of the rest of

we just abandon the tech company? We have over a hundred engineers employed here as well as marketing, data analysts,

anger building in Liam. I wonder if Leah can, on some

too.

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