Should Have Been Her Child by Stella Bagwell

Author:Stella Bagwell
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

She stared at him while the rosy glow that, only moments ago had been warming her heart, now changed to ice-cold fingers of disbelief.

“Is that…” she swallowed as emotions threatened to overwhelm her. “Is that what you think I was trying to do?”

Jess’s jaw hardened even more as he steeled himself not to let his eyes dip from her face. He couldn’t allow his gaze to linger on her beautiful, naked body. Not when desire for her was already building in him again like a monster out of control. Damn her. And damn himself for being so pitifully weak.

“I don’t know what your motives are,” he said lowly. “I just want to make sure you understand I have no intentions of getting involved with you, or any woman. Ever again.”

Victoria wasn’t a naive teenager with her head in the clouds. She wasn’t silly enough to believe that one physical connection between them was suddenly going to make him fall in love with her. Or even make him want to have an affair with her. Yet she had expected him to be, if nothing else, warm and tender toward her. Apparently he was incapable of showing her even that much, she thought sadly.

Feeling the sudden need to cover her nakedness from his eyes, she reached for the side of the bedspread and pulled it over her entire body.

“There’s no need for you to insult my intelligence, Jess. I didn’t expect this to prompt a marriage proposal from you.”

Outwardly, her voice was cool, but underneath Jess thought he heard the hint of a tremor in her words. Or maybe he’d imagined that part. Maybe he wanted to believe she wasn’t as composed as she appeared. Especially when making love to her had shaken him right to the very core of his being.

“I just wanted to make sure…my feelings are clear to you.”

She breathed deeply and hoped the burning pain between her breasts would go away. At the moment it was practically unbearable, like a hand clawing away her flesh layer by layer.

“Oh, don’t worry, you’ve made your point, Jess. And you’ve made it clear how you feel about me. What I don’t understand is why you’ve decided to exclude women from your life. Don’t you ever plan to give Katrina a mother?”

The mention of his daughter made Jess inwardly wince. Of course he wished Katrina had a mother. There were many things he would never be able to do for his daughter. Not the way a mother could. But he’d tried love with Victoria and marriage with Regina. The two failures had convinced him that women were not to be a part of his life. Not if he expected to live it with any sort of peace of mind.

“No.”

The blunt answer had her searching his embittered expression. “It’s easy to think that Katrina will always stay a toddler like she is now. But believe me, it won’t be long before she’s going to need maternal guidance.”

Straightening his head on the pillow, he focused his gaze on the foot of the bed.

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