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“I apologized for your behavior.”
“My behavior!”
Hunter runs his hand down the side of my face. I shudder at the feel of his textured fingertips across my skin.
Shit, I wasn’t expecting that.
“You’re so beautiful, Megan. I’ve never seen a more incandescent pregnant woman. You fucking glow.”
“Hunter–”
“It’s disappointed me how you’ve put the welfare of that traitor ahead of our life together.”
“That’s not what’s happening here.”
“What will you do when you find out what you came here for?”
“What do you mean?”
“What’s your next move? What are you going to do with the information?”
“It depends on what the information is.”
“Is that right?”
His fingertips trail down my face, the side of my neck, and leisurely skim the bones of my clavicle.
I won’t stop him though.
I’ve missed his touch and it feels too good. I forgot just how intense it can be between us.
He leans in and brushes his lips against mine then pulls back slowly.
“Against every one of my instincts, I treated Parker like a fucking king during his interrogation and then let him go to livehis life. He’s alive and well and certainly not giving a shit about how you are. He’s moved on. Can you?”
“That wasn’t nice to say about him not giving a shit about me.”
“It’s the truth. Accept it.”
“I never said we were besties, I just didn’t want you to kill him. I don’t want you to have to carry such a burden like that on your soul.”
“I can deal with my own soul.”
“Can you?”
“The part you’re not getting is that would have been my business if I had ended his miserable life. It’s an ugly part of how things work in my world that I choose to keep away from you for good reason.”
“I don’t want you making all the choices.”
“In my business?”
“In my life!”
“Parker is not a fucking part of your life.”
“You made him a part of it when you sent him and Lars to my university to find me. The moment you sent them is the moment they also became a part of my life.”
"All I've wanted is your happiness," he exhales harshly. “When will you stop punishing me, Megan?”