Dragon's Fake Bride MatchMate by Maia Starr

Author:Maia Starr [Starr, Maia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-06T04:00:00+00:00

I snuck in the apartment, but he was sitting there on the couch. To his credit, he didn’t ask me where I was or say anything, but I knew he must be wondering.

“I had to get out of the house,” I said, which wasn’t quite a lie, but was at least hiding the whole truth. I didn’t like how it felt. The full truth was sitting at the top of my throat, climbing its way out as I struggled in vain to keep it at bay. Of course, he would know sooner or later. He would have to.

He shook his head.

“You don’t need to keep it from me,” he said. “I can smell it all over you.”

“Sorry?”

He stood up and walked closer to me. “It’s a sweet smell, quite pleasant, actually.” He smiled, but I still was afraid. Maybe he meant something else. “Like strawberries, I’d say. With a hint of orange.”

He took a deep breath through his nose.

“It’s definitely mine,” he said, taking another breath. “Too early to say if it’s a boy or a girl, though.”

He most certainly did not mean anything else. “How long have you known?” I asked.

He shrugged. “A couple of days. I could smell something was different, but I wasn’t sure that that’s what it was. It was the look on your face when you came back in that made me positive.”

“You’re not mad?” I asked.

“Mad?” he said. “I’m overjoyed! This is very exciting. I want you to know that I’m here to take care of you and the baby. I’m not going to let anything bad happen to either of you.”

“You promise?” I asked, still feeling the residual anxiety of my last relationship, where I couldn’t tell Xavier anything without fear that he might explode at me.

He held me close and put his nose up to mine. “I promise,” he said, and then he kissed me softly on the mouth.

He paused for a second, considering his words, then let them out as almost a whisper. “I love you, Amelia.”

It took me by surprise, and I felt a little bit dizzy. There wasn’t anything I could do but respond with, “I love you, too, Glenn.”

Maybe it wasn’t just hormones.

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