Page 75 of Buy Back My Love

I turned back around, and my eyes landed on Hannah. Then her stomach. For the first time since I walked over there, I really looked at it. “Is that his baby?”

Hannah’s hand went to her stomach. That was answer enough, but I still needed to hear it. “Is that his baby?”

Hannah looked at JB before she looked back at me. “Yeah.”

A laugh came out of me, except it sounded nothing like one. “Wow.”

“Lee-”

“Shut the fuck up, JB.”

He went quiet, and I looked at all of them again. Hannah standing there with JJ tucked close to her side, her stomach round with another baby, and JB looking like somehow all of this had happened to him instead of being shit he had done.

“So this ain’t just some shit that happened while I was gone.”

Hannah’s face tightened. “No.”

I looked at JB. “You love her?”

“Lee.”

“Do you love her?”

His jaw tightened, and his eyes flicked toward the people moving around us. A family passed behind Hannah carrying two pumpkins while I stood there waiting on the man I had loved half my life to answer me.

“Do you love her, JB?”

“Why the fuck does that matter right now?”

My mouth fell open. “Why does it matter?”

“That ain’t what I meant.”

“Then answer me.”

He looked away.

I wanted him to say no so bad.

I nodded slowly. “Okay.”

“Lee, don’t do that.”

“Do what? You can fuck her, have a baby with her, get her pregnant again, but you can’t tell me if you love her?”

“It’s complicated.”

“No, the fuck it ain’t.” I pointed between him and Hannah. “Do you love her?”

JB still wouldn’t answer me, so I looked at Hannah. “Does he love you?”

“Ask him.”

“I fucking did.”

“And he ain’t answer you.”

Something about the way she said it made my head turn.