The Gift (Falling Like a Johnson Book 1) by Rilzy Adams

Author:Rilzy Adams
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Published: 2017-02-09T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Maya’s stomach grumbled. She checked the clock next to her bed and frowned at the big, bold, red digits: 7:10 AM. Jaxon usually left before seven in the morning so she had no idea what his delay was today. Maya had been able to avoid him in the three days since their kiss by only going down for breakfast when she heard him leave for work. She didn’t want to talk to him about what had happened. She grimaced. Hell, who was she trying to fool? She didn’t trust herself to be around him. She should’ve backed away when he tried to kiss her but instead she’d all but curled around him. Maya tried to not think about the way her stomach tightened and legs trembled. She’d thought pregnancy had put her right off the thought of sex but she couldn’t run from the fact that if Jaxon hadn’t pulled away from her things may have gone a lot further. Familiar guilt snaked its way into the pit of her stomach.

“I’m so sorry Charlotte,” she whispered.

She glanced at the clock again: 7:20 AM. She sighed. Why wasn’t he leaving? She couldn’t ignore her hunger any more so she slowly got out of bed. The kitchen was clear when she got downstairs and she breathed a sigh of relief. Her relief was short lived. A couple of minutes later Jaxon came strolling into the kitchen in a pair of steel grey pants and a fitted white, dress shirt with a tie hanging around his neck.

She stopped pouring hot water into her mug and gazed at him, “Morning.”

He smiled. “I was wondering how long it’d take before you gave up and came downstairs.”

“That obvious huh?”

He took a couple steps towards her and Maya narrowly resisted the urge to back away. “No more obvious than I was when I kept leaving ridiculously early for work.”

“Are you leaving right now?” she asked. She hoped his nearly being completed dressed meant that he was on his way out the door but he shook his head.

“We need to talk Maya.”

She squeezed her eyes shut. “Can we just forget the kiss happened?”

“Okay. The kiss never happened,” he said. “We still need to discuss other things.”

“Like?”

“The nursery, the items we need to buy, a name.”

“You can call a designer, Jasmine will help me and I really shouldn’t be the one to help pick out a name. That’s just too…”

“I want you to have a say in it,” he said softly.

“I can’t take her place,” she said suddenly. “I can’t take over her life.”

She could’ve kicked herself for walking right into the conversation she’d been so desperate to avoid.

“I’m sorry for kissing you Maya,” he said. “I overstepped my boundaries.”

“It isn’t about the kiss.”

That wasn’t strictly true. The kiss had been the tipping point but the fears that bubbled inside her had been around for a long time. She took a deep breath and tried to articulate them to Jaxon. “Sometimes I feel like Charls has just been plucked out of the world and I’ve just been slotted in her place.

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