immediately and for a moment, I t

ally in my chest. "Pregnant?" I repeated as disbelief

y confusion. "I know it might be a shock. But the

had made me feel broken, as though there was something wrong with me, like I was defective. The doctors had backed them

said I wa

Now, I wa

houghts were a jumbled mess. My heart was racing

ldren. And now, I was carrying a child. A child I h

d...my world was spin

haken whisper. The nurse hesitated but then nodded. She

gan to absorb everything

me believe it. They'd sent me to specialist after specialist, each one conf

, calculated effor

ow deep their betra

in that family had done this to me. But

to fin

**

nths l

I locked eyes on the last man I wanted to see a

es locked with that of Alex. He was standing there, lea

over me and overlapped with

yet, here he was in the middle of a high-stakes business deal that I ha

d driven me crazy weeks ago

en know how

" He said, finally breaki

o mask the nerves clawing at me. "M-miss

never left mine as he asked. And just like that

gh trigger for the memories of that fateful night to wash ov

I still wanted him. G

now. Not when the stakes

ence table while I hoped that I was ab

I said in a cool tone even tho

el his eyes follow me as I moved. "You real

ons, testing my limits. Every time I tried to speak about work, his words came

feel the heat of his body. His breath grazed the side of my neck and every muscle in my

voice in m

keep my voice steady. "

enough to feel but it made my heart race erratically in my

ard for a month to get this high profile business deal not only

this man, who I was supposed to be discussing bus

y games, Alex," I fi

dy against mine, almost like he was daring me to back down. "Really? Because I think you l

was no way I could fight him. N

seal this business d