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JAKE’S P.O.V
I blinked once then twice, staring at Hayley in front of me and wondering if I had misheard.
“You what?”
I wasn’t proud of my response but I was convinced that I had misheard. Hayley was nowhere near ready to have a child, she had all but said so herself, she wanted to live first, she wanted to grow first.
She must have mistook my words for something else because her eyes grew dark and she stepped back from me. “You don’t have to be involved.”
“Excuse me?”
“If you don’t want this baby then I am more than capable of doing it on my own. I have my grandfather and my-”
“Stop.”
She either didn’t hear me or didn’t care. “I have the money and this will fulfill my grandmother’s inheritance clause. I have more than enough to take care of my child.”
“Our,” I corrected and that was what caught her attention.
“What?”
“Our child,” I repeated stepping closer to her. “If you had let me finish earlier, you would have known that I want this baby.”
“But you-”
“I was surprised and I didn’t handle it correctly,” that moment would haunt me for the rest of my life. “I want this with you. I want this baby with you. I want it all, Hayley.”
I leaned down to press a soft kiss to her lips.
She was taken off guard for a moment but she leaned into me and kissed me back, her hands rising up my chest to grip the lapels of my shirt. I was well aware of the fact that we were in her father’s house and if he were to walk in on me kissing his daughter, he would lose his shit but I didn’t care. I needed to share this moment with her.
I made to pull back but she pulled me in closer and deepened the kiss, her hands tangling into my hair as she did.
A groan left my lips, my hands trailing down her spine to grip her ass. She gasped and I took the opportunity to slip my tongue into her mouth. Her hips rocked against mine as a moan slipped from her.
“Jake,” she moaned against my lips and my cock twitched.
I swear I was like a teenage boy with her, just my name from her lips had the power to bring me to my knees and now she was pregnant with my- fuck.
I could almost see her pregnant and barefoot in my house, walking around in my shirt. I could almost see a life with her and it was the most beautiful thing I had ever imagined. I wanted it all.
I pulled back from her. “Move in with me.”
She stilled. “Jake-”
“We are having a child,” I told her. “That is a bigger commitment than moving in with me. I want our child to grow up in a stable environment. I don’t want to co-parent with you, I want you, I want a family.”
She bit down on her bottom lip as she debated my words.
I knew she wanted it, there was no denying that, but for some reason, Hayley liked to deny herself the things she thought she didn’t deserve. I could see the worry in her eyes, but also the want in them. I didn’t push, didn’t want to influence her decision in any way.
Whatever she decided now, I would go with it.
“My father won’t be pleased,” she said finally. “He is going to lose his mind when he finds out I’m pregnant.”
“I can handle your father, don’t worry about that. Do you want to move in with me?”
She nodded. “More than anything.”
“Then I’ll make it happen.”
I kissed her again, lifting her until her legs were wrapped around my torso. Now that it was settled, I needed to be balls deep inside of her or I would lose my mind.
She giggled as I carried her up into her room.
We were the only ones here and that meant we didn’t have to be quiet. I didn’t know when Michael would be back but from the way he rushed out earlier, I knew that he was going to be a while.
As soon as the door shut behind us, I ripped off Hayley’s shirt in one firm grip. She squealed but didn’t stop me as she shrugged the fabric off her shoulders.
My lips latched onto her neck, kissing a path down her throat to her torso.
As always, she was clad in lacy lingerie that had my head spinning. One day, I was going to fuck her in her lingerie, but that day wasn’t today. Right now, I needed her naked, I needed her pressed up against me.
My lips wrapped around her nipple tugging hard enough for a moan to leave her lips, her head thrown back in pleasure.
“I need you inside me, please,” she begged, her voice shaky and unstable. “Please, Jake.”
“Be patient, baby,” I lowered her gently to the bed and stood in front of her. “Take everything off.”
She didn’t even protest or try to fight, she rushed to undo the buttons of her pants, pulling them down her legs with her underwear and taking off her bra. She tossed them to a corner of the room before leaning back on her elbows to watch me through her lashes.
“Your turn.”
I didn’t even realize when my hands started moving.
I undid my buttons at breakneck speed, tossing my shirt to the side. My pants were the next to go.
I climbed over her before claiming her lips with mine. Her tits brushed my chest, the friction threatening what little self-control I had left. One hand tangled into her hair, the other trailing down to her slit and parting her open to me.
“You’re fucking soaked,” I whispered against her lips.
“It’s all for you.”
She had no idea the storm her words erupted inside of me. I flipped her onto her stomach, her ass high up in the air and her face pressed into the pillow in front of her.
“Jake-” the protest died on her lips when she felt my cock at her entrance.
Her hips rocked back into mine, desperate for any form of friction but I kept one hand on her hips to still her, the other running down her spine until I got to her hair, tangling it in my fist.
“Don’t tease, please,” her voice was muffled by the pillow. “Please fuck me.”
“I have to be careful, I don’t want to hurt you.”
She turned to look at me. “I’m pregnant, not handicapped. Fucking me isn’t going to hurt the baby.”
“You don’t know that.”
“I do actually, now fuck me or get the fuck out of-”
The words died in her throat when I pushed into her in one quick thrust. Her answering moan was loud, so loud that if someone was home, there was no doubt that we would have been caught.
“Did you have anything to say?” I mused and she groaned.
“Fuck you.”
“I believe what you were looking for was ‘fuck me’,” I pulled out completely and thrust back in.
The headboard slammed against the wall in sync with her answering moan. “Simply because I feel benevolent, I’ll fuck you hard enough that you’ll feel me every time you take a breath.”
I watched her passed out in bed.
I was barely done cleaning her up when her eyes started to drift closed so I let her sleep. She was curled on her side facing me and I couldn’t help but brush my hand gently over her cheek. She stirred but didn’t wake so I let my hand drift lower to her stomach.
It was still firm and flat but soon it would be obvious.
A child.
Our child.
Fuck.
I pulled on a pair of my clothes I found in her closet and made my way down the stairs. I wanted a drink but I couldn’t have one, not right now at least. I needed to talk to Michael and I needed to be sober for that conversation.
I waited in the living room for him to return and it wasn’t until midnight that the front door opened. Michael snuck in and the first thing I noticed was the smell of perfume that clung to him.
“Good date?” I asked and he jumped, clearly not expecting me here.
“What are you doing here?”
“Waiting for you,” I gestured for him to take a seat next to me.
“Where’s Hayley?”
“Asleep in bed,” I paused before adding. “She is moving in with me.”
He muttered something under his breath before making his way over to the couch and sitting next to me. He opened the bottle of whiskey I had put out for him and drank straight from the bottle, not even bothering with the glass.
“Choose your next words very wisely because I will not hesitate to break this bottle on you,” he warned. “Is she pregnant?”
“Yes.”
He muttered a long curse that could give a sailor a run for his money. “What the fuck?”
“If you kill me, she’ll be left to raise that baby alone.”
He shot me a glare. “This isn’t the time to joke.”
“I know,” I sighed. “I didn’t plan for this.”
“You could have not touched her. She’s too young.”
“You had her when you were younger. I know this isn’t ideal but I love her and had this gone the way I wanted, I would have married her first but she’s having my child and I’m going to do right by her.”
“You fucking better because it would be a damn shame if my grandchild didn’t have their father around.”