Sloane by V. J. Chambers

Author:V. J. Chambers
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: romance, romantic suspense, thriller, spies, college, assassins, new adult

LEIGH

“I should have come after you right away,” Griffin was saying. He and I were sitting on one of the cot mattresses. Silas was in the bathroom stall, working on his tunnel. “I waited days because I thought maybe you were just angry.”

I reached out to take his hand. “No matter how angry I am, Griffin, I wouldn’t run away from you. I thought you knew that.”

He laced our fingers together. “It’s only that we’ve both run away before.”

“But that was then,” I said. “We’re better now.” I peered at him. “Aren’t we?”

He looked away. “It was a bad fight.”

That was true. We probably hadn’t fought that hard since getting married. But I hadn’t really been driven by anger that night before I left. “I only said those things because I was scared.”

“I know that,” he said. “But I thought you were less scared about this stuff now. I thought you were okay with this. Why would you agree to try to have a baby if you didn’t want to do it?”

I bit my lip. This was so hard to explain.

“Doll.” He touched my cheek. “We talked about this together before we started trying. And you said you wanted to try. I never meant to push you into something you didn’t want to do. You said you wanted a baby too.”

“I do.” I wrapped my arms around myself. “It’s like I said, I like the idea of a baby. And I like us having a baby to raise together.”

“But there’s something wrong, or you wouldn’t have blown up at me like that.”

I sighed. “I tried to explain it to you before.”

He rubbed my knee. “Can you try to explain it again, because when we were yelling at each other, I didn’t really retain a lot of what you said. I was too busy feeling defensive, I guess.”

I took a deep breath. “It’s the pregnant part.”

“What about it?”

“I don’t want to get pregnant.”

He furrowed his brow. “You just said you wanted to have a baby.”

“Right,” I said. “I like the baby part. I just don’t like the weird-stuff-happening-to-my-body part.”

He sucked in air through his nose.

I put my finger in his face. “And don’t make any sort of stupid quips about how I’m being shallow about my appearance, because that is not what it’s about.”

He studied his hands, shaking his head. “That doesn’t make sense, doll. You can’t want to have a baby but not want to be pregnant. They kind of go together.”

“Well, how would you feel?” I said. “Would you want to let something grow inside your body and rearrange your bones and stretch everything out and turn you into some kind of alien?”

He laughed. “Leigh, pregnant women are not aliens.”

Tears pricked my eyes. “Well, they seem that way to me. And it scares me. It’s a big thing. I have to do all of it. You don’t even understand.”

He leaned his head back against the wall. “I’d do it if I could.”

I looked up at him, searching his expression. He was serious.

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