Page 95 of Allegiance

“I bet. I can’t believe you’ve been down the street for three months.”

Her response was curt.

“Yep.”

He kept trying.

“You should have told us where you were. We could have helped you.”

And that was the end.

The anger cascaded over her.

Seeing him pissed her off.

Why?

Because she still felt every single thing she had before at that moment.

She loved him.

God!

She had feelings for him that she’d never had in her whole life, and likely never would again. Eve had wanted to find him so many times, especially the last three days.

But he wouldn’t hurt her again.

EVER.

“Why bother telling you? You told me to have a good life. You told me that I was just sex. You wanted nothing to do with me. Why would I call you and tell you anything, Dakota? You made it clear that I was nothing to you.”

Dakota saw this escalating.

The last thing he wanted was to make her upset or to lose any ground he’d gained.

“I’m sorry I brought it up. I’ll just put this together,” he said, seeing that this might have been a tactical error on his behalf.

Adder was riled up.

BIG-TIME.

And she deserved to be.

“I’ll leave you to it,” she said, angrily. “Because I’ve had a rough enough week. Let’s just say I didn’t expect to find out my birth control failed, and that I was going to carry the baby of a man that I…”

She stopped.

She wasn’t going there.

Then, like he tended to do, she walked out so she didn’t have to deal with the emotions.

All the way to the kitchen, she tried not to cry, and it was damn hard.

Seeing him hurt.

It hurt to the deepest part of her soul. She was carrying a child they’d made, and she knew her luck was going to be that it was a boy, and she’d raise a child that looked just like him.

She’d be forced to see his face and his eyes for the rest of her life—and remember.