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I blushed profusely at Lexia's bluntness. Didn't it bother Lexia, talking about her ex-boyfriend who she'd loved so much being with another girl? Apparently not.

“He broke up with me with the promise to get back with me after figuring out a loophole to the mate bond. But somehow, along the way, he fell irrevocably in love with you,” Lexia explained to me, gauging my emotions playing across my face. "There's no use denying it and the sooner I face the facts, the better. He loves you, Rose." She stood up abruptly. “I should get going. I came here in the middle of the week. And I don’t want to be around when Aiden figures out I told you everything. But, Rose, you were amazing. You should know it.” Lexia’s eyes went to my hands. “He gave you a ring. Ask him about it. I remember seeing you wear it when you came to my house once. I guess you took it off at some point.” Lexia shrugged. “Ask him about it. Youguys aren’t going to get anywhere if you keep tiptoeing around each other.”

I flipped a page, looking at another picture as I revisited the information Lexia had told me. If he’d really loved Lexia, he would have stayed with her. Instead, he came back. Came back for me. Time and again I was reminded how much he loved me. And I wanted to experience it. Wanted to feel it. So when Lexia left, I found myself walking towards Aiden’s study and entering quietly.

“We need to talk,” I stated.

Aiden looked up at me with a tired smile. He had an account book in his hand and must be going through it while I came and interrupted him.

“Are you busy?” I asked from Aiden and looked towards the account book.

“No, not really. I was going through accounts and I must say you were thorough in your work. I’m still trying to figure out all the places you funneled money. It is confusing as hell.” Aiden spoke with pride in his voice. But my stomach plummeted. He admired me for something I didn't remember.

“I…I don’t know if I’ll ever regain my memories,” I confessed quietly. The smile dropped off Aiden’s face and his eyes widened. “But I’d like to know if you’d still be willing to give us a chance?” Aiden stood up from his chair in surprise. I kept babbling nervously. “I know it’s not what you signed up for and it’s going to be hard—”

I was cut off when Aiden walked over and crushed me against his warm body.

“You’re worth it,” he spoke into the crown of my curls. “I’d do this a thousand times if it meant I get you, Rose.” He looked down at me worriedly. “Would you…would stay though? Even if you don’t remember? Or would you leave me? Because it’s killing me, constantly wondering if you’re going to stay or not. Itry to keep my distance because I'm afraid of overwhelming you. I'm afraid you'll panic and run the other way."

I looked at Aiden honestly. “I don’t know, Aiden. I’d like to think I’d stay but I don’t know and that’s a risk we have to take…together,” I added the last word firmly.

“I miss you so much.” Aiden let out a ragged breath, dragging his chin across the top of my head.

“I…I’m here and I’m trying,” I said into his shirt.

I breathed in and found myself oddly comforted by his scent. It then hit me why I liked sleeping in our room upstairs and why it was getting harder to sleep at night. His calming scent had faded away from the bed.

“You used to look at me like I was the best thing that had ever happened to you,” Aiden confessed heartbreakingly. “And it’s hard having you look at me the way you do now…like you don’t know me. I just…I wanted to let you know that. I’m trying too, Rose. I’m doing my best to give you your space. I keep hoping you’ll remember everything, and things will go back to normal but if this is our new normal, I’ll take it if it means I get to hold you like this.” Aiden gave me a light squeeze.

Then I felt it. A sharp jerk in my lower abdomen that nearly made me huff in surprise. I wrinkled my nose in confusion and then my eyes widened in realization when I felt it again. Excitedly, I grabbed Aiden’s hands around my waist, putting them across my stomach.

“What—” and then Aiden was cut off when he felt the movement. His face paled. “Are you OK? Do you need to go to the clinic?”

I giggled, looking up at him with overly bright eyes. “It’s the baby. He’s moving!”

I was already convinced the baby was going to be a boy. Alphas usually had sons.

The look of wonder on Aiden’s face made it all worth it. I checked the impulse to kiss him. He looked down at my stomach as if it was magical before looking up at me excitedly.

“Can I…” He left the sentence unspoken, moving one hand higher on my stomach.

I nodded and Aiden moved both hands up and down my stomach, trying to feel out more kicks. His face broke out into a smile when he was rewarded with another flutter of movement.

“This is amazing,” Aiden breathed.

“This is a baby,” I replied with a smile.

Aiden looked at me with a smile of his own. “Our baby.”

“Our baby,” I echoed, my hands coming over his.

For the first time, I thought I could do this. We could do this.

Chapter 64

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Rose's POV