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If he’d just told her that he was actually an alien here on an undercover mission, she wouldn’t have been n?”
“On the do” He grinned and spun her a little bit farther away from the other couples on the dance floor “I couldn’t let e Didn’t you ever wonder why all of the other job applicants were bodyguard-types except for you?”
Theinto the only open seat between two huge guys in suits and dead-eyed expressions flashed in herplace”
“And I would have put big ed” Hudson sighed and shook his head “It doesn’t ageoes any further I know it all started out as a siapore deal closed, but now it’s a problem”
He wasn’t wrong The truth of it shouldn’t hurt, but it did “You mean I’m a problem”
Hudson offered her a kind s the other day It ets attached to people and after what happened e lost my father…” his voice trailed off for a second “You seem like a nice person and I hate to be such a cold bastard, but I need to put my family first You have to break it off with Sawyer sooner rather than later”
“It’s…” She searched for the right word to describe the complete mess of a situation she found herself in, “complicated”
“And it’s only going to get more so”
He wasn’t wrong Whether she was pregnant or not, she couldn’t settle for being Sawyer’s teammate She knew it She’d always known it, she just hadn’t wanted to admit it—even to herself “Your mom and Sawyer think they’re the steel will in the fa, aren’t they?”
Hudson raised his broad shoulders in a nonco her back toward the table
Three steps in and an all-too-familiar ache started in her pelvis Realization made her sto toward the bathroom just outside the ballroom doors
By the ti for sure she wasn’t pregnant and unable to decide whether to be happy or sad, she wasn’t surprised to find Saaiting for her in the hall Of course, that didn’thiala probably wasn’t the place to do this No It definitely wasn’t the place to do this, but if she went back to the penthouse with hiht Or any other night Love was a real asshole that way It had to be now or never
“We need to talk—in private,” she said
His body tensed, but to his credit he didn’t try to pull the truth out of her right away Instead he took her hand—the frisson of desire his touch ignited was almost a cruelty—and led her down the hall until they found an unlocked supply closet Once inside, she shut the door and leaned against it, needing the support it offered
“I’nant” She should be relieved—and she was…kind of