Lust by Melissa Andrea

Author:Melissa Andrea [Andrea, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Melissa Andrea Ink.
Published: 2017-11-04T13:00:00+00:00

Twenty

Meela

I choked.

Tears immediately blinded my vision, and my throat felt like I’d just drank kerosene and then lit my mouth on fire. I dug my fingers into my chest as I attempted to breathe again.

Reed was at my side, pulling an empty chair to sit next to me. His hand was warm on my bare back, and the heat only intensified as he moved it up and down my spine. He moved my water glass in front of me, and I gladly accepted it. I held it to my lips, drinking as slow as I possibly could without drowning myself.

The water was a distraction so I could wrap my head around the insanity Reed had just proposed. He had just proposed, right? Maybe I was hearing things. My whole self was completely out of my element, and maybe hearing things was one of those pregnancy side effects. I tried to think of what could sound like I think we should get married, but I was coming up with nothing.

Time was up anyway.

Reed covered my hand around the water glass, and with only a small amount of pressure, he lowered it from my lips. I licked the drops of water away and watched as his eyes followed the movements of my tongue.

“Stop looking at me like that, Reed.”

His eyes lifted to mine, and that didn’t seem to make the situation any better. “Like what?” he asked.

I ignored his question. There was no time for that grenade. Instead, I asked my own. “Did you just suggest we get married?”

“Yes,” he answered simply. Like suggesting marriage wasn’t a huge fucking deal.

“I’m pregnant, and you think the solution to that is for us to get married?”

“Well, not just that, but yes.”

My eyes bulged to the point that I was sure they were no longer on my face. “What does that mean?”

“I think you should move in with me,” he said simply, reaching across the table to grab his drink. He lifted it to his lips and threw the rest back like it was a shot.

I envied his right to the use of alcohol at this current moment in time to take the edge off. I could really use a shot or two or six of my own if I wasn’t currently with child. His child. Holy shit, I was pregnant with Reed Pierce’s child. It was not like I hadn’t had weeks to get used to that fact.

Although, if I wasn’t pregnant, we wouldn’t be having this insane conversation where Reed Pierce just proposed marriage and asked me to move in with him like it was our only option.

Fuck, you’re rambling, Meela. Get out of your head.

“I- I …” I tried to form a realistic rebuttal, but I couldn’t stop thinking long enough to.

“Don’t worry, I’ll wait while you ramble through the pros and cons,” he said and signaled for the waiter to bring him another drink.

“Is the room spinning?” I asked, gripping my chair.

“I don’t think I’d be a good judge of that, considering I just finished my third drink.

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