Claiming His Unexpected Baby (Assassins Guild Book 2) by Michelle Howard

Author:Michelle Howard [Howard, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: michelle howard, assassins guild, secret baby, marriage of convenience, Enemies to Lovers, alien love
Publisher: MH Publications
Published: 2020-12-20T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Sulen rushed toward Amelie and hurried them home, Roan’s demand echoing in his head. Amelie shook beneath his hand at her waist as he waited for her to enter the code and open her door. It took two attempts. Fleur had fallen asleep in her mother’s arm. There were dried tear marks on her cheeks.

“I’m going to lay her down.”

Amelie was gone before he could speak. Sulen sat on the familiar sofa. Everything was the same as it had been a day ago except for a stuffed toy on the floor by his feet. He picked up the pink object with four swirling eyes that jingled and set it on the cushion next to him.

Amelie joined him a few minutes later. Fear and dread emanated from her as she sat with her head lowered to her twisting fingers. Sulen placed his hands over hers to still the motion. “Amelie, it’s alright.”

“It’s not,” she shot back, raising her head. “He can’t test her, Sulen.”

Though he knew the answer, Sulen asked, “Because he’ll try and take her away?”

Her ex had already refused the child when she disclosed her pregnancy and attacked her when he found her months later. Giving him access to Fleur in any manner would be a crime.

Eyes glistening, Amelie sniffed. “Y-yes.”

She burst into tears afterward and the emotion was a far cry from the laughter of a short time ago. Sulen reached for her and pulled her onto his lap. He didn’t know what he was doing but he couldn’t let her cry as if her world was over.

“We’ll figure something out,” he whispered into the top of her hair.

“I wish you were her father.”

Stars help him, Sulen had the same wish because the thought of the sweet girl sleeping down the hall having to be exposed to that bastard as her father was not a pleasant thought.

“Roan and his wife are not well liked,” he stated and awkwardly patted her back.

Amelie gave a final sniff and settled against his chest. The action warmed him on the inside. He was an assassin, trained to kill. Gentleness was not in his make-up yet his behavior since arriving here and meeting Amelie had been completely opposite of who he knew himself to be.

Initially, his goal had been planned vengeance when he discovered the identity of the person on the other end of the bond.

Torturing or maiming had been some of his more fonder fantasies for the confrontation. Anger had guided those thoughts, though. The reality of her was far different than his expectations. Amelie Haven was a single mother working hard at a garden center to make a good life for her daughter.

From what he’d witnessed so far, she’d been quite successful at it too. He admired her courage in the face of what must have been a difficult situation. “Let’s start at the beginning. You had a relationship with Roan.”

The irony of his arrival coinciding with Roan’s was too much to take in at the moment. Maybe one day he’d laugh about it.

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