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I grunted and pulled open the door to my car "You wasted a lot of years on me, Kallie Don’t make the same mistake with the person you really want to spend the rest of your life with"
On ht and pulled the sonogram picture out of the back pocket of my jeans and stared at it I let ers on the minute-sized hand that was barely detectable Out of nowhere, i with plastic tools and banging on toy cars flooded my brain I’d never had anyone to show , never had anyone to teachI wanted to kicktoin front of an opportunity to give so I’dany of that, for telling myself that if it didn’t happen the way I wanted it to, then it wasn’t good enough
Someone honked behind me and I turned my attention back to the road It was still early afternoon, so I should head back to work, but instead I found myself headed doard the vet clinic where Poppy worked
We’d been spending a lot of tiether over the last week or so She didn’t flinch or ot close to her anymore, in fact she moved closer when she could There were stolen kisses here and there and sometimes they led to heated e a lot of time in the shoithforbolder, but she still wasn’t ready for everything we could do to each other She never co off but she also wasn’t in any kind of hurry to remove hers I’d never seen those pert breasts or that silken, hot place between her legs I knew the strangled sounds sheapart and I heard the way she gasped le night
She letintome for release, but she never took it further I hadn’t had a girl grind on h school I also hadn’t come inside my jeans froured out how good girls felt pressed againstwith Poppy was some kind of perfect torture, and while my dick was more than ready to knohat kind of pleasure her body held, my heart knew that if ent too far too fast, all the trust I’d meticulously cultivated would crumble She trusted me to touch her, to take care of her needs, and I wanted her to know that I alould even if it meant I drove ho to break off I didn’t ever want her to think thather to return the favor
She wasn’t being rewarded for her perfore to pleasure her, my honor to be allowed in her bed, and I never wanted her to question the fact that I appreciated her allowingthe o into detail about what had happened after her husband pointed the gun at her sister and forced Poppy to go with hiht next to her on more than one occasion and she couldn’t keep the horror away and locked behind her walls when she slept It didn’t take Sherlock Holure out that he had forced her, hurt her, and terrorized her She screa ain She was loud and thrashed around on the bed like she was trying to get away I was surprised her neighbors didn’t complain because it was obvious her outbursts were a coh theht I should wake her up and try and settle her down, but as soon as I touched her, she curled into me and burrowed as close as she could I wrapped my arms around her and held on to her as she shook like a leaf for the next hour Eventually, she went still and ht she would let out these little whiuts to shreds She didn’t need to relive what that bastard had done to her by giving me the words … the memories were clearly alive and well inside of her She told the story without words and I heard every gory, awful detail of it
When I got to the clinic, I texted her that I was outside and wanted to show her soe that said she was in the middle of an exam and would be out as soon as she could I left the car running because it was cold, and while I waited for her I sent anotherhim I was in with the Hudson I’d alanted one and Kallie was right, no one was expecting uy just because I had a baby on the way I was the only one thinking e because ofto be rearranged for sure, there was no denying that getting my hands on one of my dreaot an iain that he would score the lowest price he could, even after he told htly beuy seemed more excited about the project than I did I assu to be in Denver, where he could visit it instead of shipped off to parts unknown
I was still wondering about the guy and why I was so certain our pathsopen and Poppy slid into the seat next toas the outside chill followed her into the warm interior of the car, but there was a small smile on her face and she leaned toward er at her Every time her lips landed on mine it made my entire body coled from head to toe, and without fail my dick twitched and reminded me that there were other parts ofher besides my hands and ency case that cao and that pushed all the appointue traced the curve of old at ram picture out of the dash and handed it over to her Her tawny brows dipped in confusion as she looked at the odd little blob that was eventually going to be my baby I saw her mouth turn down and watched the blood drain from her face as she silently handed the picture back to leam in her eyes went dull as she stared at me blankly