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"Just try to put it out of your head until Liis gets here tohed, looking up at the ceiling He crossed his are She’s alone How can I make her do that?"

"She’s not alone We can support her We can help"

He was quiet for ato have a heart attack This is going to kill hier than you think"

"We can’t do this," he said The panic that had been just beneath the surface all evening was now evident in his voice

I grabbed his face, forcing him to look me in the eyes "We don’t have a choice Think about what they did, Travis They thought they were shooting atme off the road Jessica and James could have been in the car We could have been killed Everyone could have been co home for our funeral If we don’t do this, it still could be our funeral--or Shep’s, or even Olive’s As of yesterday, we knoe all have targets on our backs Even the kids When Liis , andquotation ers they’ll back off Then you can hunt every single one of them down until they’re not a threat any your faht I know you’re right"

I leaned in to kiss his lips, just as soft and warm as the first ti closer to hiht I was beautiful, but up until the otten just how the idea of carrying his child made Travis insatiable

"If you want me to stop …" he trailed off "Any contractions today?" I s Braxton Hicks for nearly three weeks We’d even gone to the hospital once but were sent hoown over my head and kissedno

We were at the part of nancy that made my curves ated every high and low, running his tongue over erly than our first time in his apartarch with his thumbs He lifted my toe to his e,up to oodbye with a kiss My insides tensed when he found his way to nant belly, and I rested ue h to the inner folds of h "Oh There you are"

Travis gripped er for his brushing against the sheets, getting ue

Just as I feltto release, he crawled to lay beside ue up my belly, he followed the dark line that had for tomy second trimester The baby stirred, and Travis jerked his head up, s his pale cole for Travis, to go froht sexy and desirable Transitioning from mom to lover was more difficult forhis hand over the sers pressed into my skin as his eyes scannedaround ushis hands on me for the first ti, but sonant made it even better I had never felt more beautiful or wanted than at that moment, and I would feel even more beautiful and wanted the next ti me as I slowly lowered myself onto him The black leather braided bracelets on his wrist tuon the surface of his skin I letA quiet sigh left my lips instead Travis rocked his hips just to reposition, and I tensed, already feeling close to clinancy, to everything Best of all … sex Not everything was such a bonus, but bigger breasts, , and the ability to cohts All Travis had to do was slip his fingers beneath my panties, and I was a flusteredthe roaned As soon as the noise escaped his lips, we froze, waiting to hear a pause in the light snoring on the floor below

I covered le

Travis saze fell to the place where our bodieshis back to bury himself deeper insidehe would hurry and dreading the end

"My God," he whispered "It blows ood you feel"

I anchoredup so I could feel hiain

Travis paused, his eyesaround the roo, but he held his finger to his mouth

We heard raised voices downstairs, and Travis closed his eyes, disappointed and regretting his next request He pattedas he hopped out of bed and pulled on a pair of red basketball shorts He put on a navy blue baseball hat and swung it around backward, hiding the hs

"I’ll be back," he said, leaning down to kiss me His lips still tasted liketo get downstairs to find out as going on He closed the door behind hiainst my pillow, frustrated As Travisof the twins picked up, echoing one another Travis’s voice joined the symphony of deep tones, and then I heard him yell