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The two men came closer to Lane’s door, but dared not go inside.
“Since none of you can keep tabs on just one man, I don’t know if I can trust you with this job.” Lane looked back at me, and we locked eyes. The tension was like pulling an arrow string, and if it broke, the damage would be irreparable.
Luckily, Emma knew what her father was going to tell the guards. “He needs you to escort us to my room,” she said. “Jack’s staying with me.”
The guards gave questioning looks and Lane angrily waved them away. “I’ll talk to you two in the morning.”
I had gotten Lane to give us what we both wanted, which was to be together. I followed Emma, and that night our souls were made whole. It was as if we had needed each other this whole time, and I could feel her energy too. We made love well into the night, and I held the mother of my child in my arms.
“I know it’s a forced thing,” Emma said. “But I’m glad I’ll be marrying you.”
I chuckled. “I’m glad it’s me too.”
She laughed.
We had just finished a passionate round of love-making and I wanted to tell her that I could make things right, that her father couldn’t control her life. Unfortunately, reality was a powerful thing, and I had to get around the fact that her father could have us killed at any moment. Something told me that Lane wasn’t above harming his daughter, and even though she detested him, Emma still treated him like he was an actual loving father. It made me sick, but I understood why Emma was giving him the benefit of the doubt. At the very the least, we had to keep the peace. We also had to figure something out, because I saw no real future as Lane Price’s son-in-law. Then there was the matter of avoiding angering both mafias, something that seemed impossible.
I thought about it, and told Emma my concerns.
“My father said he’d talk to us in the morning,” she said. “Think he’ll come and wake us up?”
I laughed at the image of him opening the door to see us both naked. “He can’t see us like this!”
Emma gave me a slap on the wrist and got serious. “What are we going to do?”
There was a lot on my mind, but my thoughts went to Aaron, who was still in Thailand. I wondered if he had any connections, and if they could offer us protection.
I didn’t know the answer to that but I was sure about one thing. “Emma, we need to convince your father to let us marry before the baby is born.”
“I agree.” Emma got quiet, then hesitantly asked me, “Will you love my baby whether it’s a boy or girl?”
“This is our child,” I assured her. “Nothing can take that away from us.”
I held her, treasuring the moment. Our collective heat was an intimate one, the kind that you can only have with your soul mate. I had once denied myself any kind of hope for that kind of love years ago, but now, I knew that anything was possible.
Emma is so young though, can she handle a family?
19
EMMA
The next morning was the first time I awoke with hope in my heart since Jack had been imprisoned. I found out that my father had thrown him into a hole, and that the guards had been incompetent enough to make it easy for Jack to climb out.
“Doesn’t surprise me,” I said after Jack had recounted everything. We hadn’t talked much about his imprisonment the night before, as we were busy catching up with our physical desire for one another. Now that I heard Jack’s story, I was even more impressed with his attempt to get me out of here.
“There’s guards everywhere,” I said, when Jack told me that he still wanted to get me out of here. “Where would we go? They can find us anywhere even if we did manage to escape.”
I could tell Jack didn’t like my reasoning because he stayed in deep thought for a while, before he said anything. I liked that about him. He wasn’t the kind of man who would explode in anger at you, but he was also the kind of man who could become a loose cannon when you needed him too. I knew that from having seen him spring into action countless times.
God, he’s so hot.
I must have zoned out because Jack was trying to say something to me.
“Babe,” he said. “What do you think?”
“Huh?” I hadn’t heard a word he said. I was too busy admiring his chiseled features and the sexy determined look he had when I told him why he wouldn’t get me out of here. It was almost as if he took it as a new challenge, rather than accepting it as impossible.
“You’ll ask your father to let us marry before the baby is born,” Jack said.
