The Witch's Heart (The Rise of Orion Book 2) by J. M. Davies

Author:J. M. Davies [Davies, J. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-07-31T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Several times during the night, Marcus had woken and caught sight of Ella lying over the bed as close as she could without climbing up onto the tiny hospital mattress. Absorbing her dazzling pale gold locks that fanned down over her back and her face soft in sleep, his heart ramped up speed, but he didn’t want to disturb his sleeping beauty. At times, her hand searched out and touched his, squeezing as if to reassure herself that he was there and to let him know she was. Despite being dazed from the drugs he had been pumped with upon arrival at the hospital, he had been able to catch snatches of conversation and blurry images of the scenes once settled in the room. He observed the look of shock and disbelief on Ella’s face as she examined Ava, unsure who the woman was. He told himself he would explain once everything settled. He would let her know the woman was his past, but his eyes lingered on Steel as he comforted his wife. That last image plagued him throughout the night.

He tossed and turned as the early morning hours flitted past. He would have adjusted his position in the uncomfortable bed to gain better access to Ella’s body as her soft touch elicited a stirring in his blood and loins. Since capturing the interaction between Steel and Ella when he touched her, it played over and over in his mind. The green-eyed monster squeezed tight around his heart, sending any rational reasoning to outer space. Jealousy was a new experience for him. Women fawned over him. It was never the other way around, but with Ella and not having had sex for a while, this driving force surged in his gut.

Hours later, when he awoke only to see her caressing a baby, his ardent lust evaporated as it called to mind their loss and increased the distance between them. He didn’t know what to think as he watched her croon over a stranger’s baby. Holding and cuddling it as if it were her own. The violent need rose to understand how she could bear to hold another when their baby was dead. Finally, when dawn broke and morning rose, leaving him unrefreshed but physically feeling stronger, he was determined to put a few issues to rest. However, when he let Ella go to say her good-byes to the orphan in the nursery, the timing couldn’t have been worse. Ava descended and from that moment on, everything went to shit. As soon as Ella turned the corner and was out of sight, the woman launched.

“You fucking bastard. Why didn’t you tell me you were married?” She stood next to the bed with her hands on her curvy hips. She wore a tight, short skirt and a low-cut cream blouse that left nothing to the imagination and her sizable cleavage glared at him. To most men, she was a walking fantasy—long legs and a voluptuous figure. But not to him. She was work.

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