Mine To Hold by Cynthia Eden

Author:Cynthia Eden
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: woman in jeopardy, billionaire hero, romantic suspense, military romance, sensual romance, romance, stalker, cynthia eden, contemporary romance
Published: 2013-10-19T17:29:45.473121+00:00

Chapter Eight

“We should talk about it,” Noah said carefully. He’d been hesitant to broach this subject before, but they were nearly back in the city, and he had to man up and face facts.

I lost control with her.

“It?” Claire echoed. He could feel her stare on him, but Noah kept looking at the road. “What is ‘it’ exactly?”

His teeth clenched. “No protection,” Noah gritted out. “You know I didn’t use a condom last night.”

“Oh. That.”

His gaze snapped to her. The woman sure didn’t sound concerned.

“I told you I was safe,” Claire told him with a shrug. “There hasn’t been anyone for me in years.”

And he never went without protection. Well, he hadn’t. Until her. “I’m talking about the risk of pregnancy, Claire.”

“You don’t have to worry about that.”

“Uh, yeah, I do. I was the guy fucking you last night.” He forced his gaze back to the road. “So if you get pregnant, we’ll—”

“You don’t have to worry,” Claire said again, cutting through his words before he’d been able to finish his sentence. And that finish would’ve included…

We’ll get married.

The idea had come to him as he’d stood on the balcony, watching the sun rise. After his nightmare, sleep had been an impossibility. He’d had plenty of time with his thoughts.

His thoughts had focused on her.

“Are you on the pill? Some sort of contraception—”

“I don’t need anything.” Her voice was totally devoid of emotion. “I can’t have kids, okay? So, again, you don’t have to worry.”

His hands tightened around the wheel as his knuckles whitened. “You can’t have kids?”

“No…I…I was pregnant before.”

He slammed on the brakes. Car horns behind him blared. “What?” She’d been pregnant with Ethan Harrison’s baby? That hadn’t been in the reports he’d read.

Claire glanced at him. Her cheeks had paled. “That part didn’t make the papers.”

Or my reports.

The cars kept honking.

Noah started driving again. “No, it sure as shit didn’t make them.” His guts were twisted into knots. “What happened?”

“The pregnancy was one of the reasons my parents sent me away to my grandfather’s fishing cabin. I’d found out I was pregnant, and I was trying to figure out what to do.”

His heartbeat thundered in his ears.

“Then Ethan killed my parents. He nearly killed me, and I-I lost the baby after that. It was…the doctors said it was a tubal pregnancy. The baby died, and they saved me.” Her breath rushed out. “And that was when I started to think that I shouldn’t have been saved.”

Fuck, fuck, fuck.

“The doctor said it would be unlikely that I could conceive again. They told me that I’d been lucky to have the first pregnancy…Lucky,” she whispered and her voice rasped with pain. “How was I lucky if I’d lost the baby?”

“Claire…”

She cleared her throat. “I left the hospital as soon as I could. Sara knew, she always knew. The doctors had said that there was some surgery that could be done to increase my chances of conceiving again, but we didn’t have money for that. We were barely surviving back then.

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