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As I walk to work, I realise that the chemistry between us hasn’t dulled at all. If anything, it’s grown. If it was a raging fire before, it’s a towering inferno now, and I know that it’s only a matter of time before he’s in my bed.
Charlotte’s Diary
30/09/19
Baxter came to see me today. There was me thinking I’d been successfully managing to avoid him, when he turns up on my doorstep apologising for disappearing on me. I was baffled.
Turns out, the morning after our kiss he was called back to the UK on business and he’d actually been gone from the island for twelve days. As soon as he landed back here, he raced to come find me to explain.
Allegedly.
I’m not sure if I’m buying his story. The timing is a little suspect. And when I quiz him about his ‘business’ he was pretty evasive. When I pushed him to tell me more, he completely clammed up…but not before admitting he had seen Rebel while he was gone.
A million questions raced to the tip of my tongue and it pained me to swallow every single one of them back down, unasked and unanswered. I must have given myself away though, because Baxter gave me the strangest look.
After a beat, he asked outright if I was pregnant. And, fuck…well, there’s no denying it now.
Of course I had to confess. And once I started, it was like damn floodgates had opened and almost all of my secrets came pouring out. Almost all. I’m not stupid enough to let everything fly free, no matter how cathartic it felt.
I expected Baxter to be horrified, repulsed by what I told him. But he wasn’t. There was a strange kind of glint in his eyes that made my stomach drop and twist…
Like when a monster knows it’s just met one of its own kind.
