His by Amanda Faye

Author:Amanda Faye [Faye, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Suzanna

I'm warm.

Too warm.

I try to push the covers off, only to be met with sinew and muscle instead. My eyes snap open, panic coursing through my veins before I remember where I am. And what I did.

"It's just me, Susie Q," he whispers against my ear, and, while my instinct is to flee, my body relaxes against him. "It's just me."

It's Matthew.

Matthew's arms are wrapped tight around me, and the coarse hair on his arms and belly is foreign against my skin. I jerk in his embrace, momentarily startled at the contact.

Instead of letting me go, though, he tightens his hold on me, sliding down to cup my burgeoning baby bump.

"You're safe," he whispers in my ear, and my body melts against him.

Of course, I'm safe. I'm in Matthew's arms. Of all the people in my life, he's the only one who's ever cared about my comfort— who puts my needs first.

He curves himself around me, lifting his hand from my belly just long enough to gather my hair and tuck it under my head, then returns to caressing the form that holds my child.

"I'm sorry I scared you."

His hand is moving up and down, thumb grazing my stomach in long smooth strokes. He places little kisses on my neck, lips trailing up and down and over me.

"You didn't."

It's the truth. I scared myself when I surrendered to him so quickly last night. I scared myself by the depth of the feelings I let escape during our coupling. I scared myself by spending the night in the arms of another person.

I've never spent the night with someone before. Never. I'm sure I did as a child. I must have at some point. But it was so long ago that I have no memory of it.

I've never had a man in my home before—in my bed. When the urge for sex got too strong to be ignored, I made arrangements and filled the need.

Like a business transaction.

I have rules in place for a reason, and for the most part, pregnancy excluded, those rules have kept me safe.

Not only did I break them all last night. I broke them for Matthew. Enthusiastically and with a smile on my face. The thought alone makes me want to run in the other direction.

Though, by the way he trembled under my touch, I have a feeling Matthew broke a few rules of his own.

Still no more substantial than an apple, the child makes itself known by the continuous pressure on my bladder. I can't feel the baby yet, but that doesn't stop me from peeing a hundred times a day. It's only going to get worse too. The thought makes me smile. I never in a million years thought an unexpected pregnancy would make me so happy.

"I have to use the potty," I say, and feel him chuckle behind me.

"This isn't a ruse, is it? To escape me. If I let you go, do you promise to come back?"

My smile widens, filling my chest with happiness.

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