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"That was o, Gavin" E he’d known "I don’t understand Why would you keep this froh his hair All he wanted to do was touch her, console her, but her defenses were up, so he would tread "I was buying time" He spoke softly and stared at her face as it beca ti time? Time from what? We can’t stop the inevitable But we could’ve stopped Dillon fro at every doctor’s appoint from his mouth "No, we couldn’t have He’s the father Not me"
Emily sed back a breath at his admission Her knees eak Thehe’d hidden so naturally, so effortlessly over the past several months She didn’t knohether to scream at him or cry for him However, she knew he did it for her She could never deny his natural instinct to always protect her feelings He’d sheltered her by keeping his fears to hiht before her eyes, she decided to reveal so the last few nize what it was until now A pull so internal, so war to melt her "You are this baby’s father, Gavin Blake Do you hearhis mind He wanted to believe her, but he couldn’t His words came out as a whisper "I’, Emily stepped closer and reached for his hands She molded the into Gavin’s weary eyes, she cupped his cheeks "You are the father, and I’ll tell you how I know," E her lips to his "I know because I can feel every bit of you running through my veins Your blood, your heart, your soul I can feel it I feel his love for you Every tih, I swear he vibrates like he’s sharing the joke with you" Sliding her arers in Gavin’s hair and buried her face against his chest "I know you can feel hi, Gavin, and he knows it’s his father’s hands on my stomach He knows it"
Gavin had said Emily’s hands shook every time she touched him Here and now, it was his he couldn’t control He s the swell of her sto the life they may have created squir down her face, Emily stared into Gavin’s eyes "I need your faith and belief in everything you knoerebreath and held his face "I need it to be stronger than your fears and doubts Don’t you dare give up on us, Gavin Don’t give up on him Please"
Gavin nodded and bent his head, brushing his lips against hers "I won’t," he whispered, pulling her into his ar in his office with the woman he couldn’t live without, the woman who showed him what it felt like to have his faith restored by her si this child’s father Instead, he drowned in the fact that not only did the woman with him believe he was, and was in love with every fear he had, but another life was already in love with hi the mountainous stairs to the second floor of Gavin’s home in the Hamptons proved a more difficult feat than the year before With a bottle of water in one hand and a hearty plate of reheated Chinese food in the other, Emily reached the last step quite winded As she made her way down the hall, she couldn’t help but stop outside the room she and Dillon had slept in the last time she was there Tainted memories of their stay stormed her mind But as she stared into the space, one round This particular memory would never taint her She’d hold on to it forever
A small smile lifted the corner of herher water and food on the large dresser, she flicked her eyes to the nightstand flanking the queen-sized bed Siled when she saw the sweatshirt Gavin had given her to hile she played her first ever gaathered it in her hands, bringing it up to her nose Though faint, it still held his s to burn his scent into her h to wake up to it everyWar her eyes, she hugged her chest, overcoht She looked around, picked up the plate and water, andboth beautiful and bad h, she stepped into the rooainst the doorway, Eed on the bed, wearing nothing but a pair of light cotton pajah he’d promised he wouldn’t work over the Fourth of July holiday, E She kneas trying to keep busy, drowning hi with their neaiting gaao when their lives were very different
Heart heavy for what he was going through, E her food and drink down, she crawled onto bed and pulled the laptop away from Gavin With a mischievous smile, she snapped it closed and straddled his lap
Gavin lifted a brow, a slow s at hison"
"Sounds like a threat" Placing her hands on his bare shoulders, Emily cocked her head to the side andto do har for a little pleasurable harm to my body?" He chuckled, and his blue eyes twinkled with the playfulness Eone for the test
Gavin sucked in his bottom lip and slid his arms around her waist "I’ve turned you into such a dirty, kinky, little ht does to led "Yes I can feel what it’s doing to you right now"
"That obvious?"
"Very" Eing his ers in his hair "Your head’s so consumed byon roan crawled up Gavin’s throat "And what you’re doing is supposed to help?"
"Okay, I’ll stop," E back
Gavin frowned "I’ out the caveman card here and demand you continue your dirty, kinkiness on led "Not until you figure out what’s new on me Seriously, it’s not that hard"
Gavin buried his hands in her hair and guided her down to his lips "Wrong," he whispered as he spoke between kisses "It’s painfully… tortuously…agonizingly, I’m-about-to-rip-the-panties-from-your-body hard"