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I listened to hiaps between each breath was longer, and each breath fell deeper, and he was asleep I tried to sleep myself, but couldn’t My mind raced away I wondered at the seed that even now still seeped from inside of me

I had spent all day, ever since our first encounter, excited by the idea of being pregnant However, at this post-coital moment, without the hot roar of pleasure, I was terrified What if I did get pregnant? What if I really did have Ja inside of me?

What then?

And as I wondered, I realized so else I had never really told him what I wanted to say In his office he cut rabbed hold of me so fiercely I could barely say hello And then afterward I had been so drunk on his beauty and his body and his cu else

I had never told hi more than sex

It felt like hours passed aslists of worries and doubts But finally ht, and my eyes closed, heavy with certain sleep I would talk to hi I slept

Chapter Sixteen

The light was too bright I opened lowed above o all the way up, and the light frolared into the apart to block out the light and sleep for just a little bit longer

I reached for James, and when I didn’t feel him, I pulled my head from the pillow and listened The house was quiet I could hear the low drone of cars on the street below, an errant car horn or barking dog, so softened by the thick s as to be almost imperceptible

I slid s from the bed and put my feet on the floor, and as I sat up I felt every part of ht and sore everywhere, but especially between s It was a sweet ache, but a painful one I wondered if it was his size that had done it, or asms It was the first time I ever came on a man while he was inside of me

I went to the bathroolanced at myself in theto fix until after a hot shower But first I wanted to see James

I let the bedrooh the threshold He was yelling at so keys at a laptop as he spoke on the phone I stood in the door fraic

“I told you I needed that on my desk today, not next Monday” He listened “No, no, we can't afford to get rid of hiain, he listened “I know that he's saved us in the past, but he has got to learn that a deadline is a deadline Listen, I don't care what you have to do, but-” He finally noticed reide for a moment as he did a once-over on o, but I trust that you'll have this taken care of by the ti up his phone and put it on the table

“That sounded important,” I said

He laughed “Nothing I haven't dealt with a hundred tiave estured to the stove “There's coffee on the burner, good stuff from Columbia Please help yourself”