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Her derisive words, her scorn, left a tense silence along with the sound of her heels fading as her angry strides grew further fro room

She actually fucking left Of course, she did Kat thought she was i she was about that

Chapter Twelve

Mo

The last goddaot was to strap on a tight t-shirt with the Midnight Mass logo splashed across my tits—sensitive-as-fuck tits, thank you very much—and work a double shift

Not that I had anything better to do or would have anything better for the next forty weeks or so because according to the doctor, I was knocked the fuck up

Pregnant

With child

Up the duff

Yeah I sighed as I stuffed my purse and jacket into an e with the news Exactly twenty-one days ago I had sex No, what I’d had was a good, hard, and incredibly hot fuck with Jasper Ashby, and now his baby was growing in my belly It was unreal Fuck that, it was unbelievable, and I felt like I was in a daze, walking around in one of those surreal dream states common after a shock or a trauma

I should be happy After all, Jasper was the man of my dreams He was hot and rich and ruthless as fuck He valued his family; he protected theirl and any child would be lucky to be loved so fiercely But the truth was, Jasper didn’t love me, and he’d never be mine He looked at me and saw an easy lay, a paid fuck He didn’t see a baby irlfriend, fiancée, or wife

“Glad to see you value your job after all,” Jasper growled at me from the door that led into the eruh, which was odd because where this ive a shit

“I’ better today, so I’ all over the place, I’ll coreat things for ”

The truth was I would probably be feeling sick as fuck a lot for the next few months, and I would come in and do ive up my cushy lifestyle Not that I’d have to once Jasper found out about the baby

“How about you just don’t get sick in the first place?”

I threw hed at that ridiculous state in his world, to running shit to his exacting standards that he—only he—would think a person could control when and if they got sick