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“I iet your father and call in a forensic unit,” Rhett answered, watching her aardly try to hop up His hands found her waist and he hoisted her up onto the table, the world iht back to their incredible night together She sardenthose hips he’d just touched when he explored every inch of her His groin tightened and his cock swelled as he recalled how she’d laughed so freely when he kissed along her rib cage And as he looked into her lust-filled eyes, he kneasn’t the only one reht
He loosened a breath and opened the first aid kit Then he got to work, forcing his mind to clear away thosehi have you known about the baby?” he asked, reaching for the sht in the kit
“Teeks,” she said
Two goddamn weeks He felt the tremble of her hand in his, and dark shame rolled over hi a voice to the realizations he’d coht on his run He looked up into her eyes, finding them even wider than before “You should not have had to deal with this alone”
She shrugged “I’m okay about it now”
Her answer suggested she hadn’t been okay She’d been scared and alone, and Rhett had done that to her He’d sworn to himself that his messy life would never touch her, but it did The only way forward noas to ensure it never happened again He shifted her hand frolass in there”
“Thank God,” she drawled and gave hih without y
ou digging in there with tweezers”
He hastily pulled out the gauze and antiseptic creahtening the mood
Silence settled in between them But as once an easy, comfortable silence now seemed strained while he tended to her wound
When he’d finished up by placing a large bandage over the gauze, he braced both hands on either side of her legs Only then did he look into her eyes again The intensity there sent a hard-hitting blow to his chest, but he pushed through the iciness that trickled into his veins and the alar him to run “You always say that you know me Do you really?” he asked her
She gave a soft nod “Yes, I know you”
Her quick answer startled hi a baby, was so far down on my list of what I wanted for my life” Hurt crossed her face, so he swiftly continued, “I’m here for you, Kinsley, whatever you need, whenever you need it, but”—he pushed past the tightness of his throat—“I can’t proht, and I want to be up front about that”
Her eyes softened and her sweet touch landed on his ar the ache in his chest “I don’t expect you to pro I also don’t expect you to swoop in and becoantic shock I’ve had weeks to process it all And I’ to work, or what really happens now, or if I’ You deserve ti you that time”
Most tith totally blindsided him Today even more so “We’ll take it day by day,” he clarified “One step at a tiht now “You tell me what you need, whatever it is, and I’ll do that, okay?”