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Chapter Twenty

EVA

Jere I hated hi back He knew it all weekend and didn’t tellhim in the nose when I saw hiht e drive up thatThen he’d come inside and he’dI reached up and cupped my tender boobs They ached all the tie had started staring at the the area between o up to ht and eased the ache that thinking about Cage always caused I hadn’t letBut taking cold shoas painful in the winter I ive ethiiven me more inspiration He’d stared hard atit ain

My nipples were so tender now Having hiasht I wondered ould happen if he touched theether and tried hard to push that thought away It would only send et control of that Cage was just more than my body could handle

He wanted to stay He wanted to be close toelse I didn’t understand Why would he stay here and work for free just to be near me if he didn’t think we could ever have e once had? He had hurt s that there was no excuse for, and I was terrified to trust him But I wanted him here I wanted to see his sexy smile I wanted to see him look atto hiht have been

I stepped away fro, and I wanted to talk to hi wasn’t such a bad thing after all Besides, Cage thought I was still engaged He wouldn’t do anything he shouldn’t Which was good because I wasn’t sure I could tell higs ready, I called his phone for the first time in six

"Breakfast is ready," I replied

"I’ll be there in a second," he said before he ended the call

I could have texted him I knew that I had just wanted to call him To hear his voice The pleased sound when he’d said he would be here in a e that s were an added touch I didn’t nor overboard, but I wouldn’t think too hard about that I didn’t have Jeree opened the door and stepped inside I turned just in ti it beside the door He flashed rin The kind that made my panties wet Yes, that kind I was pretty sure he knew it too

"Daht?" he asked with a teasing glint in his eyes as he pulled out his chair then looked attoo," he said It wasn’t a question He reached over and pulled out the chair beside him I sat down and let hiIt wasn’t so I wanted to think too hard about At least I hadn’t But was it right? Did it make me weak and needy?

"Why do you do that?" I asked as he set my plate in front of me

"What? Fix your plate?"

I nodded

"Because I like taking care of you" was his si his plate I wanted to ask hiain, but he had already toldhi he loved me I’d seen the pictures and the video They were forever etched in e and waited a ht on cue, Bliss started to e’s hand "When I eat, she ave my stomach his coe held ile as an actual baby He reached for the bottom of my shirt and his blue eyes lifted to mine "Can I?" he asked I had been prepared for that

I nodded

He slipped his hands under my shirt and, just like before, rin

I did as I was told and watched as Bliss started ers splayed out overnancy hormones into overdrive I forced food into my mouth to keep his hands still The tietting to me Bliss moved and his hands moved with her When she stopped, his thumbs were just under my breasts If he moved them at all, they would brush the underside of my bra I helda noise if he did

"Eva?" he asked His voice had dropped to a low husky whisper

"Hmmm?" was all I could say

"If I move my thumbs and you whiood I’ these noises and I a it"

Oh! I jolted back I hadn’t knoasnoises? I pushed my chair back and I stood up "I didn’t know I didn’t ed to croak out before I escaped to

CAGE

My invisible fairy was back A sandwichof chips and a ther I probably shouldn’t have said anything about the little noises she wasshe wasn’t ready for I was trying to savefrom me I hated for her to hide from me

I had decided I’d let her hide today Give her a day to get over it But to to let it slide I hated that she felt like she had to hide frolanced back oneto my car Her door was closed, and I wondered if she would sleep okay tonight She hadn’t taken me up on my offer to sleep in the barn