Chapter 124
I spring off the table so fast I nearly break a heel.
“Where’s the bathroom?”
Aaron points to a corner of the room.
I rush over, still coughing and hoping he doesn’t smell or see.
When I get into the room I spit into the sink.
Blood.
Not a lot.
But enough.
Time is ticking. And no matter that I feel okay and the baby is growing, I’m still dying.
“Leah, you okay?”
It’s Aaron. He’s at the door. If I know him-and I do-he’s about two seconds from bursting
in here. “I’m good!”
I rinse my mo uth with water and spit.
AARON
Leah’s not acting right.
Maybe she’s shy.
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The s*x was phenomenal and she was completely exhausted afterwards, but we can’t exactly cuddle or curl up for a nap. At least not here.
There is a President’s Suite on the top floor. But that hasn’t been used since her old man started flaking off and I didn’t think she’d be as comfortable in that space.

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I scrub my hands with soap.
As I stare in the mirror I hardly recognize myself. My eyes are bright. My hair is a mess. My skin is flushed.
I look like I’ve been thoroughly f**ked.
If it wasn’t for the blood and the pregnancy, I could pretend I was an average twenty-something engaging in an office affair.
I could laugh about what had happened and relish the naughtiness of it.
Instead, I have to think about politics and my pack, and a baby who is going to enter a world of strife and change, who won’t have me to love and protect him.
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Then again, I wasn’t really ‘thinking’ when I f**ked her just
now.
I often lose my mind where this female is concerned.
She started acting weird when I mentioned children. But that is the inevitable outcome for us. I don’t care that she’s human. That alone should convey that I’m invested in her and our marriage. Why else would I consider it?
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There’s a knock on the door before Liam enters.
Smart boy to knock before entering.
His nostrils flare, no doubt scenting that we’d had s*x.
Which is probably awkward as f**k for him, seeing as how it’s his sister and all that. But I’m not going to apologize. I eye him hard. I’ll put his head through that conference table if he makes Leah feel embarrassed in any way.
“Each board member has been escorted from the premises. All clearances have been revoked and they’ve been locked out of all corporate servers.”
“Good,” Leah says. She steps out of the bathroom and has smoothed her hair back into some tight knot.
I don’t like it like that.
She moves to the head of the table and sits.
“Please,” she holds out her hands indicating that we should sit. I move to her right hand side and take the chair nearest to her.
Liam sits and opens a laptop. He slides it to her.
Leah cues up a picture of the Roberts Corp headquarters.
“This building,” she begins, “and the surrounding acreage of grounds total some 16 acres.”
We have over 16,000 acres of just irrigated pasture on our lands.
“We could sell it,” Liam says.
She shakes her head.
“I have a different plan. She pulls up drawings in quick succession. They’re a series of
four-story residential developments. “Housing,” she says.
“The smallest house here is over two million dollars. People need to work, but most can’t afford that kind of mortgage. But they can pay between 5-10k a month.”
“That kind of rent or lease is way more than most people make in a year,” Liam counters.
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