Secret Bump by Chloe Maine

Author:Chloe Maine [Maine, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-09-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Isabelle

I don’t understand.

“We don’t have a relationship,” I point out.

Also, I actually need to go back to my apartment because he made a mess between my legs and now that the drama of the bookstore is behind me, I’m painfully aware of it.

But I’m not going to tell Mr. Emerson that.

I reach for anything else that feels obvious. “Besides, it’s the middle of the workday. Don’t you need to go back to the office?”

He doesn’t answer. Just stares at me, his dark brows yanked together.

“And what about the bookstore?” I’m grasping at straws now. “That was sort of rude, how we left them without saying goodbye.”

His frown deepens, something I didn’t think was possible. And then he growls my questions back at me. “Don’t you need to go back to the office? What about the bookstore?” He mimics my gesture around the limo, too. “These are the things you say to me after I tell you that I love you, that I’ve loved you from the first moment I saw you?”

I stare at him. “Are you mocking me?”

“Jesus, Isabelle. No.” He grunts and holds out his hand. “Can you please get your pretty little pregnant self over here so I can hold you?”

My mouth falls open.

“I need to touch you,” he continues. “I can’t explain it properly yet. I don’t understand it myself. But it’s so hard to be close to you and not hold you in my arms. It’s been like that since the very first day. Don’t you feel it, too?”

I do. Scared, but unable to deny it, I nod.

His expression softens. “I know I was wrong to run from that instinct. Let’s not make it worse by refusing it again. Come here, little one, I won’t touch you again if you don’t want me to. Not sexually. But please, Isabelle, just let me…”

I launch myself at him, and his exhale is full-bodied and desperate.

“That’s better.” He settles me sideways on his lap and tips my face up, his finger under my chin. “You’re pregnant?”

I nod hesitantly.

He shakes his head. “I’ve missed so much. How do you feel?”

“I’m tired. And I need a shower. You made a mess of me.”

He gives me a wolfish grin. “I have a pretty nice shower you can use. And then we’ll have a nap. How are you eating? Any food aversions?”

“Umm…” I look out the window. “No, that part’s fine. I eat whatever I can afford.”

His expression immediately turns serious. “You won’t lack for anything now. I promise. I’m going to make this right. I know I fucked up the bookstore thing.”

“I like the bookstore,” I admit. And then something niggles at my memory. “Wait, did you have me work on some of that under the guise of research projects?”

He grins. “No comment.”

My eyes narrow. “Was it the coffee shop chain research?”

“God, you’re a smart cookie.” He goes to kiss me on the mouth, then stops and kisses the tip of my nose instead. “But I liked your presentation on that

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