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“Yes, I do,” he said in a tone that brooked no argument, but I didn’t fucking care.
“No, you do not,” I said in the exact same tone.
Stefan held my eyes with a disappointed frown. “He will be moving into the main house tomorrow.”
I was going to lose it if he didn’t let this go. “No, he won’t, Stefan.”
“Yes, he will, Maura. I expect you to bring him to me first thing tomorrow,” he ordered in a raised voice, which was something he rarely ever did.
“I will not, and if you try to take him from me, you will regret it,” I threatened.
“Why?” he questioned.
“Because he is mine!” I yelled. “Not yours, Stefan! He will not spend one goddamned night in this house without me. I have already lost one baby in this house, I will not lose another, and I swear to God, Stefan, if you try to take him from me, I will burn this fucking manor to the ground!” I shoved my chair back from the table and stood.
Before I could storm over to Kiara to take Kieran, Stefan grabbed my hand. “Okay,” he said, his voice gentle.
He appeared calm, like he hadn’t been angry at all. It was then that I realized what he had done. He had played me, and I’d fallen for it.
I yanked my hand from his grasp and stormed over to Kiara. As she had done to me, I took him from her arms without asking. Just as I left the room, I heard Stefan say, “Don’t look at me like that, Jameson. She needed the push.”
“Maybe, but you didn’t have to use her fear of losing another baby to do it,” Jamie said, his tone riddled with barely contained anger.
I didn’t hear anything after that because I kept walking. I returned to the guest house with Kieran. Dean and Asher were in the kitchen washing dishes from their own dinner.
Dean noticed me first and he greeted me with a frown. “Did something happen?”
“It’s just been a long fucking day,” I grumbled as I walked by, heading toward the hall that led to my room. “I’m going to call it a night.”
About an hour later, after getting the baby to bed, I drew myself a bath. With a large glass of wine, I relaxed back in the claw-foot tub and soaked in the hot water, doing my best to unwind. I was almost finished with my wine when I felt a presence standing by the door behind me. I had left it open so I could listen for Kieran in case he woke.
“Are you just going to stand there and watch?” I threw over my shoulder.
“I was thinking about it.” The voice belonged to Louie.
I was a little surprised it wasn’t Jamie. He normally showed up at this time. The fact that Louie was here instead of Jamie gave me the feeling that Louie had been a little more jealous than he had let on earlier. I smiled down at the water. “Shall I lay the other way to give you a better view?”
“Only if you’re trying to seduce me.”
I turned around in the tub and lounged back, facing him. Louie was leaning against the frame of the bathroom door with his hands shoved into the front pockets of his jeans. His beautiful sapphire-blue eyes dropped to the water where my nipples were visible just below the surface.
I sat up a little, bringing my breasts out of the water, and rested my arms along the rim of the tub. “Are you really going to just look and not touch?”
“Do you want me to touch you, beautiful?”
“How else will I know if I’ve seduced you?”
He pulled away from the doorframe and pushed up the sleeves of his shirt as he came to me. Holding the edge of the tub, he knelt stiffly next to it and grasped the back of my neck, so I was forced to look up at him as his mouth descended upon mine. His touch may have been rough, but his lips were gentle. He broke our kiss, leaving me breathless. “Bend your legs,” he ordered.
I did as he asked, and my knees rose out of the water. Without letting go of the back of my neck, he put his hand on top of my knee closest to him. Very slowly, that hand slid down the inside of my thigh.
I let out a little gasp as his fingers slid over my pussy to my core. He pushed two fingers inside of me and began stroking them in and out. I grabbed hold of his arm when he pressed his thumb on my clit and started rubbing that as well.
The water splashed as I thrashed from the pleasure. My breathing turned into pants as pressure between my legs built. The closer I got, the more my pants turned into moans. As I reached the edge, Louie’s mouth slammed down onto mine and his tongue matched the strokes of his fingers until my release hit me. He pulled back to watch me as I squeezed around his fingers and my body shook in his arms.
“You’re so fucking beautiful when you come.” He withdrew his fingers from me and slid his hand up to cup my breast.
Climbing to my knees, I threw my arms around his neck and kissed him like I was starved for more. His arm wrapped behind my back and his hand gripped the back of my thigh before he pulled me out of the tub. I squealed as I fell against his chest and he rolled onto his back on the floor with me on top of him. He let out a grunt.
