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“Seat belt” He reaches overit overit into place

“Where are we?” I ask again I don’t even knohat state we’re in His eyes lock with uard His eyes searchAn answer maybe? I don’t have those

“Hoh in a possessive hold as the SUV pulls out of the empty airport

Chapter 9

Jonas

I want to interrogate her, get an hour-by-hour report of exactly what happened since the accident It seems like she’s surprised—not just that I’ve found her but my actual existence Her eyes nearly fell out of her head when I mentioned I had the pink lemonade she liked stocked on the plane

“How did you find the Wards?” I ask as the SUV rolls down the highway toward Darby’s luxurious prison

“I needed a job”

My fingers clench around her thigh “What was it about the life you had withat a horse farers was better for you?”

She rubs her lips together, the pink appearing and disappearing in a way that shouldn’t be erotic but is My hand nearly claainst her pussy in an automatic reflex Back before she left me, if she’d done that, I would have had her under me with her skirt up and my cock inside of her within five seconds flat I pull ether so I don’t do soive me a reason to overlook this I don’t want to be , but underlyingI have a son is the ugly re froh, if she’s honest with me

“I had an accident and when I woke up, I didn’t re”

I hangto clai my son? We’re not in a soap opera, Darby You had er That ”

Her fingers fly to her e My purse had a driver’s license and forty dollars I had a credit card with no purchase history and a bank account that was overdrawn I guess the hospital staff or the eency crews must have taken it”

She’s convincing but she should’ve picked anything else but aa baby or she hated the Willits’ life, that would have been understandable I hate the Willits’ life and being pregnant for the first ti some kind of memory loss?

“That’s easy enough to check out”

“You don’t believe me” It’s a state to feel bad Like should I believe her?

“Did you know you were pregnant when you left me?”

“I don’t remember”

I have a feeling all ofto result in that kind of answer

“Where were you?”

My head pops up at her accusatory tone “Where was I what?”

“Where were you when I got hurt? Why didn’t I see you at the hospital? If I was so important to you, if you wanted a baby with me so badly, as I in a car alone with your child in my tummy?”

A pang of souilt tickles the back of my neck I swat it away because I’apore when I got the news you were in an accident Your car had stuck a tree and you were nowhere to be found There was a cliff” I s hard thinking about it “It was thought you got out of the car disoriented andwere you?” I change the subject not wanting to think about her dying on htmare for three years

“I was eight weeks I was transferred to a different hospital after I woke up and couldn’t re I stayed in the new hospital for teeks While they tried to help me remember I have the bill to prove it The Wards paid it off for me”