Forbidden Promises by Katee Robert

Author:Katee Robert
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2017-05-31T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Jude shut the door behind them and stripped out of his wet clothes. He didn’t give Sloan a chance to voice whatever was going on in her head before he was stripping her down, too. He led her into his bathroom and turned on the shower, his words from earlier echoing in his mind. He’d called her his. He’d told her that he’d hunt her down like some sort of madman if she left him.

He had passed the point of no return with this woman.

It didn’t make a damn bit of sense. The sex was out of control, but it was sex. It shouldn’t be enough to derail his entire plan. Then again, his plan hadn’t counted on Callista being pregnant. Jude guided Sloan beneath the spray, ignoring her pointed look. She was playing along, and that was all he asked for right now. He needed time to process, to get his head on straight again.

If that was even possible at this point.

Already, he wanted her again, but they had shit to iron out first. Fucking her until they weren’t capable of moving might sound like a dream right now, but it wouldn’t solve a damn thing. He shut off the water and handed her a towel. “Now, we talk.”

Sloan wrapped herself in the big fluffy towel, the sheer amount of fabric dwarfing her. It made her look younger, innocent, and even though he knew it was an illusion, it didn’t stop a pang of something like guilt from going through him. She frowned. “Why are you looking at me like that?”

Because everything’s changed.

He didn’t say it. Instead, he grabbed a towel for himself and dried off. “You will take a pregnancy test tomorrow. It’s not negotiable.”

“Okay.”

He glanced over, having expected her to argue, and she sighed. “While living in denial a little while longer wouldn’t be a bad thing, it’s also unrealistic. If I am, I need to know—”

“We need to know.”

“—so I can plan accordingly.”

“That sounds an awful lot like you making plans that don’t include me.” He should be grateful—he needed a kid like he needed another hole in his head—but the thought of her out in the world without him, let alone out in the world with his child, didn’t sit well. He’d told her she was his, and it didn’t matter that he’d said it while he was inside her. It felt like the truth.

Jude hadn’t had anyone to call his own before. Not truly. He didn’t know what to think of that.

Sloan toweled off her hair and stood there, gloriously naked and without so much as a blush. “I’m being realistic. It’s only in the last twenty minutes that you’ve changed your tune, and that’s on the heels of some rather large news I’m still reeling from. So forgive me if I don’t take what you said in the middle of sex as the Lord’s honest truth.”

“I can protect you—both of you.” If there was a baby. If there wasn’t, well then, they’d figure that out, too.

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