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* * *
Warmth presses against my back.
Hunter.
A smile touches my lips.
His arm is wrapped around my naked body. His hand rests on my stomach, and butterflies take flight.
If only he knew.
“Your brain is loud.” Hunter’s gravelly mumble causes my eyes to spring open.
I twist my body to face him.
“How do you know?” I kiss his lips, and he responds with a deeper, more passionate kiss.
It’s as if his lips make me love-drunk. When he stops kissing me, my lips tingle. Licking them, I savor his taste.
He sighs, pulling me tighter against his bare chest. “I just know you. I can read your mind.”
If only you could actually read my mind. “Okay then. Tell me,” I challenge.
His eyes finally open. “You’re thinking I’m hot and that we should take this to the shower.”
I laugh as he kicks back the covers and lifts me, carrying me to the bathroom.
* * *
Later that morning, I’m sitting out at Nash’s grave. “Well, Nash, I’m pregnant.” It seems so surreal to actually say that. “You would be an uncle.”
A lump forms in my throat.
Someone clears their throat behind me. Spinning around, I see Landon standing there wearing his usual black suit and white button-up shirt. “Sorry to interrupt. I just wanted to check in and see if you were okay?”
Hard shell, soft interior fully describes this man before me.
“I’m okay, thanks. Thanks for helping me last night.” I tap the empty spot beside me on the bench, and he joins me.
“It’s my job to protect you...” He pauses, and I catch him rubbing his hands together.
Is he nervous?
“Are you okay?” I eye him skeptically.
“No, I’m not. I don’t like keeping secrets from Hunter. He’s my boss.”
And there it is.
He’s faithful to Hunter.
“I will tell him after we get my mother back. Once he knows, he will probably flip his lid, lock me up, and never let me leave here again. Good thing this place keeps me busy, or I’d be climbing the walls with boredom.” I laugh.
He does nothing—simply stares at the headstones before me.
“Tell me what’s on your mind, Landon. It’s not just my secret.”
“No, it’s not,” He pauses, then continues, “Levi told me that Ezra is the one who put the hit out on you. Hunter knows this, only he felt that you didn’t need to know. I’m through with keeping secrets from you. You deserve to know. Please don’t let on that I told you.”
