Chapter 0490

"Protect from what?"

"From you...from your family."

"I wouldn't hurt the baby." The colours runs off his face as if I had just slapped him.

"No, I know that. But the baby will be the heir to the Clear Waters until you have a real baby with your mate.."

"A real baby.." He chuckles out finding my paranoia laughable. Well he is the only one.

I take a further step back from him, anger radiating through me. Always pushed aside by him, always

ignored for no fault of my own.

"Don't laugh at me." I seethe out, hot molten anger racing through me.

"I'm sorry, I'm not laughing at you. You must know how much I love you Cleo, how much I want to be with you. Since the hotel..." Again he tries to close that gap between us. My back almost touching the brick house wall.

"Since the hotel you've had plenty of time to tell me that you have another. You let me find her almost naked in your bedroom..." My finger jabs into his chest, pure anger in my voice.

He jabs me back,

hurts more than I am letting on. He doesn't

him about my burn with the pizza as he spilled my

came straight to tell you Jace. I would have come to the hotel if you hadn't text back to say

I've reached out, you had plenty of times

how I had waited...then you left me alone. Left me to wake up alone in your penthouse,

female you picked up at the bar, a dirty little secret?"

out, bringing home another girl. He was almost speechless, his words struggling to come out. "I was naïve, I can

Not any more.

"I want you.."

I won't be a mistress, a dirty secret. I should

shoulders painfully, shaking me slightly

"No."

fight against it. I want to be with you, don't do anything you will regret. just need time.

tone, he was

was something about him, something that

was in shock, I was still in shock myself...I can give him time, surely can give him some time. He needed to do right by his mate, he

warm and protective...of everyone. He needed to make

him time, for the sake of our

time, If

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