Pregnant I left him To His First Love by Collins Patrick

Chapter 69

Chapter 69

Leila stares calmly at him, but her heart is slamming against her

ribcage but instead of feeling scared or upset about his psychotic plans to murder and cremate her mate, she feels her heart flush with warmth, feeling good to know he desires her this much. This is the Tatum she knows, wild and deadly when it comes to protecting what he loves.

Maybe she can give him another chance?

Perhaps their baby can grow up, loved and adored by its mother and father.

She wriggles away from his hands and folds her arms against her chest, an angry pout on her lips.

"If you won't let me go, it's not only me you should be telling," she replies in a curt tone.

"I understand. So you're staying?"

Leila rolls her eyes at him. "It's not like I have a choice, I don't want you to kill my mate."

Tatum would normally chuckle at a cheeky eye roll and a reply like that but his heart is still full of unease.

showing up for so long, and she just... agreed to stay? For real? Is

desire her as much as she desires him but her heart is restless, her mind a wobble of many different thoughts. Could it be? that he has SOME feelings for her? She

hope? Her heart is

and the baby, but she can't

it has been like for all

to guard her heart carefully this time around if she is going to stay, she has been through a lot of pain and anguish

not that she doesn't want to kiss him or have sex but

to be staying, there's no way it can remain a secret. If

of her neck, slowly running his hand up, underneath her

says, slowly moving her hand to her stomach, the thrumming of her slowly pounding heart

Tatum with puppy eyes, but full of

utter a word. His hands tremble by his side, his heart thudding like the galloping of a thousand horses, he slowly swallows

asks,

saying anything? Does

the ground before his arms can even

going to be a father. F**k,

words, admiration clear in his gaze before he locks lips with her in a deep,

Leila staying but he's also getting