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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my

myself. My eyes

look like I’ve been

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

happened

think about politics and my pack, and a baby who is going to enter a world of strife and change, who

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A

‘thinking’ when

now.

lose my mind where this female

that is the inevitable outcome for us. I don’t care that

L

knock on the door

boy to knock

flare, no doubt scenting that

to apologize. I eye him

been escorted from the premises. All clearances have been revoked and they’ve been locked out of all

of the bathroom and has

don’t like it

the head

she holds out her hands indicating that we should sit. I move to her right hand side and take

opens a laptop. He

a picture of the

surrounding acreage of grounds total some

acres of

sell it,” Liam

She shakes her head.

up drawings in

developments. “Housing,” she

here is over two million dollars. People need to work, but most can’t afford that kind of

rent or lease is way more than most people make

she agrees. “But not in this part of the country.” Leah pulls up another set of charts and diagnostics. “The

is higher than in 97% of the

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

the anger building in Liam. I wonder if Leah

too.

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