Rescued by the Billionaire CEO by Amelia Autin

Author:Amelia Autin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Romantic Suspense
Published: 2017-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Jason watched as the warm color drained from Alana’s cheeks, leaving her face white and pinched. And he knew he’d just delivered a body blow.

“Not even with me?” Her voice wobbled a bit, and her eyes...her eyes slayed him. But he couldn’t lie to her about this.

“Not even with you.”

“I...see.” Her fingers tightened on the sheet. “I see.” She averted her face as if she didn’t want him to see how it affected her, and that ripped a hole in his heart. Alana hadn’t been ashamed of anything they’d done in bed. Not yesterday, and not tonight. But he knew she was ashamed now.

Still without looking at him, she asked quietly, “May I have my clothes, please?”

“Alana, I... You don’t understand.” The words were on the tip of his tongue to suggest she obtain a doctor’s prescription for the morning-after pill, which wasn’t yet available over the counter in Hong Kong. But her reaction told him the request would devastate her even more than his admission, and the words died unspoken. “It’s not—”

The face she turned to him was as fierce as her voice. “Don’t you dare say, ‘It’s not you, it’s me.’”

“Why not, when it’s the truth?”

Her eyes glistened suddenly, and she bit her lip. “Because if you really cared for me—”

“I do.”

She shook her head in denial. “You can’t possibly.” Her voice was scarcely above a whisper.

He sat on the bed and reached for her, grasping her upper arms and shaking her a little. “Don’t say that, lang—”

She pulled away sharply. “And don’t call me lang loi, because you don’t really mean it.”

His arms dropped to his sides. “You’re deliberately misunderstanding the situation.”

“What about me?” The tears in her eyes and her voice were a dagger in his soul. “I want children. Your children. You’re not willing to consider it? Not even at some point in the future?”

More than anything in the world he wanted to be able to say yes. But memories flooded his consciousness, reminding him why he’d vowed years ago he’d never put any child through what he’d endured. “No.”

“Why? Will you at least tell me that much?”

He couldn’t tell her, but he couldn’t say the word no. Not again. His throat closed and he couldn’t speak. So he just shook his head slowly, watching the faint hope in her eyes die.

Her lips trembled, then tightened, and she nodded her acceptance. “I see,” she said for the third time. “So what you’re saying is, you don’t care about what I want.”

“I do care.” He briefly considered asking why children were so important to her, but decided against it because there was no point. No matter her response, he wouldn’t change his mind. Instead he said, “Ask me for anything else. Anything. But not this.”

“Then may I have my clothes, please?” Politely. As if there was nothing between them. As if they were strangers.

His hands tightened into fists and he fought the primitive possessiveness that swept through him, the possessiveness that insisted Alana was his, and he would never let her go.

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