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“Isn’t that the plan?” I ask sweetly, and he shakes his head.
“Day-trip, remember?” I nod, and he smacks my ass playfully. “I’ll ravish you tonight.”
“Promise you won’t get drunk, Grandpa?”
“The only drunk I’ll be getting is off you, my love.”
We share a grin before he kisses my nose and then starts to get up. I roll over to the other side and reach for my phone. I jerk back in surprise when I see thirteen missed calls from Elliot.
“Oh no,” I gasp, hitting her contact. “Elliot has been calling. I put my phone on silent ’cause I didn’t want to disturb you.”
Riggs’s brows pull together. “Shit. Hopefully she’s not in labor.”
My heart drops as the phone rings, and my sister’s voice comes over the line. “Clara Drew, what the hell?”
“My bad. I had my phone on silent. Are you okay?”
“I’m fine,” she snaps.
Perplexed, I ask, “Are you in labor?”
“No.”
“Okay. Then what’s going on?”
“I thought I knew what I wanted to say. But now that I hear your voice, I’m so fucking pissed, I can spit.”
Her voice is hard, and when I glance at Riggs, even he looks confused. “What’s wrong, El?”
“Is Riggs there?”
“Yes?”
“Put me on speakerphone.”
I do as she asks, my face twisted in confusion as Riggs steps toward me. “Okay? You’re on speaker.”
“Riggs, I want you to know you’re lucky I’m about to drop a baby, or I’d come over there and whoop your ass.”
“Elliot!” I chide. “What the hell?”
Elliot’s voice is like steel. “No, Clara. I want him to explain to me and to you why he had the audacity to tell Alex that my beautiful sister was a drunken mistake and that she meant nothing and that he doesn’t want her.”
I look up as Riggs’s face goes a shade of white I’ve never seen. He holds up his hands, palms toward me. “I can explain.”
“Please fucking do!” Elliot demands.
I shake my head and hang up on my sister as I lock eyes with Riggs. I don’t want to believe this, but he just admitted to it. My heart pounds in my chest as I cross my arms, hugging myself. I knew this was too good to be true. I knew I wasn’t destined for love, not when I’m not whole like other women. Buteven thinking that doesn’t seem right. Not with how his eyes are pleading with mine, not with how my heart still screams for him.
No. I am worthy of love.
His love.
But he has some explaining to do.
CHAPTER 33
Riggs
