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She lifted her chin. “You wanted nothing to do with us.” She placed a protective hand over her belly.
His mind boiled.Nothing to do with her? Feck.
There was a baby in there.Hisbaby.
Confusion made him cock his head. “You disappeared, Addie. I thought it was a pretty clear way of telling me you didn’t want me. A baby…” He scraped a hand through his short hair. “I had a right to know about that.”
Splotches of color appeared on her cheeks. “I called. I tried to get in touch. I left you messages.”
His brows drew together. “I didn’t get any messages.”
“I called Sentinel Security. And I went there.Twice.” The color left her cheeks again, the look in her eyes stark. “I was told to stop bothering you. I got the message, Bram.” Her voice hitched.
His gut knotted. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Just leave me alone.” She grabbed the edge of the table. Her knuckles were white. “I’ve been doing just fine on my own.”
The pain and hurt in her voice cut him. His throat was as dry as dust. He couldn’t handle the idea of her alone. “You left the show.”
“Show?” She frowned at him.
“On the Street. Where you were dancing.”
She gave a short laugh. “I’m pregnant, Bram. No one wants a pregnant dancer.”
“Addie—”
“And I was sick for a while.”
His own stomach cramped at the thought.
“I couldn’t afford my apartment anymore! I couldn’t find any work, and I was puking constantly.”
His body jerked. He hadn’t meant to, but he’d left her all alone.
“I couldn’t even pay for my phone.” She lifted her chin. “I was lucky Paddy took me on here.”
“I didn’t get your messages, sunshine.”
If it was possible, her cheeks went even paler. “Don’t call me that,” she whispered.
He’d called her that during the nights they’d spent together. Wrapped up together in her small double bed, where there had barely been enough room for him, let alone both of them. But he’d held her tight. He’d learned every inch of that beautiful dancer’s body. He’d cherished pleasing her, hearing her cries as she’d come for him.
Now there was so much pain in her pretty, blue eyes, and he was desperate to fix it.
She rubbed both hands over her belly.
“Addie, come with me. We need to talk.”
“I’m at work, I—”
“I’m not leaving you alone.” Not again. A part of Bram panicked at the thought of leaving her, worried he’d lose her.
She wasn’t disappearing from his life again.
“Bram, I think it’s best you go.” Her voice wobbled.
“No,” he growled.
