I couldn’t help but laugh at the bastard. “Hey, asshat. I don’t know who taught you how to fight. But when you get knocked down, ya know, like I just did to you. That means you didn’t win.” I took a step toward him and whispered, “If you are here to hurt her again, I will fucking kill you. And the difference between you and me, boy, is I’m actually capable of it.” I lunged a little at him, just to scare him. He didn’t flinch, but I was pretty sure he about pissed his pants.
Loralei
What the hell just happened here? I was looking over at Cade up against the wall and Jaxon trying to pick himself up off the floor. Jaxon leaned over and said something to Cade. Then Cade lunged at Jaxon and shouted at him.
Cade made his way over to me. “You okay, hon?”
Was I? I didn’t know what the hell was going on. One minute I was kissing Cade and trying hard not to think about Jaxon. The next minute, Jaxon was here pushing Cade up against the wall. I did what I had wanted to do ever since he walked in...I ran over to Jaxon. “Are you okay? Did he hurt you?”
Jaxon was wiping the blood from his lip. “I’m fine. That fucking cowboy can’t even punch like a man.”
Cade walked over to me and leaned toward Jaxon. “Really, asshat? You wanna talk about being a man? I don’t think you wanna have that fuckin’ conversation with me.”
Jaxon lunged at Cade again. I jumped in between them and felt this excruciating pain in my face. It didn’t take me long to realize what had happened. Jaxon tried to hit Cade and punched me in the eye instead. I fell back to the ground. Holy hell, that man could hit. I felt like I had been hit by a mack-truck. Cade jumped to catch me, but he wasn’t quite fast enough. My body hit the floor...hard. Cade was on the ground beside me, trying to help me set up. Jaxon came over and kneeled in front of me. He tried to take my hand.
Cade said, “You get your fucking hands off of her, asshat.” Cade was pissed. “Lor, are you okay?” His hand automatically shot to my stomach. “Everything okay, hon?” I looked up and saw Jaxon staring at Cade’s hand. The realization hit him. It was written all over his face.
He raised an eyebrow at me. “You’re pregnant?”
I wanted to jump up and hug him and tell him I was pregnant. Tell him he was going to be a daddy to our child. But I couldn’t do that, because I knew it might be Cade’s. And I didn’t want to be the reason why Jaxon left his family. I couldn’t take him away from his daughter, especially without knowing if my baby was his.
Cade was holding me up and had his arms around me. I couldn’t look Jaxon in the eye. I looked down at my legs stretched out in front of me on the ground. “Yes. I am, Jaxon.”
Chapter 15
Loralei
The look on Jaxon’s face broke my heart. He looked completely defeated. His eyes went blank. It was like he was looking right through me, as he stared at Cade’s hand on my stomach.
Jaxon stepped back. “I’m sorry, Lor. I, uh, I shouldn’t have come here. I won’t do anything else to hurt you.” He turned around and walked outside.
Cade was still holding me up with his hand placed protectively over my stomach. He helped me stand up and steady myself. “I’m sorry you had to witness that, hon’. But he deserved everything I gave him. We’re havin’ a baby. Now that he knows that, we can start plannin’ our future.” Cade leaned in to kiss me, and I placed both of my hands on his chest and pushed him away. I felt horrible, but I had to be honest with him.
“Cade, I don’t know what the hell was happening when Jaxon got here, but I don’t have feelings for you. If this baby is yours, we will raise it. I want you to be a part of the baby’s life. But I don’t see a future with you.”
Cade cupped my face in his hands. “But hon, that kiss. You kissed me back. I know you feel what I feel when I kiss you.” He leaned toward me and pressed his lips to mine again.
I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t let him kiss me again. “Stop. When you were kissing me, all I could think about was him. It’s always been him. I love him, Cade.”
He was still holding my face in his hands. “I don’t fuckin’ believe you.” Then he smashed his lips into mine and pushed me up against the counter. He lifted me up onto the counter and worked his way in between my legs. I wasn’t kissing him back, I was pushing him with all my strength.
I finally broke away from his lips. “Cade, no. Don’t do this. I don’t want this with you. Please, stop.”
He pulled his mouth from mine and started kissing a trail down my neck. All the while I was pushing his chest and trying to get him off of me. “You feel it, Lor. I know you fuckin’ feel it,” he said as he continued down my chest.
The next thing I knew Cade was flying across the room.
Jaxon was screaming, “Get the fuck off of her. What the hell is wrong with you?” Jaxon jumped onto Cade, who was lying on the floor trying to catch his breath. Jaxon laid into him, hitting him over and over and over again. Cade didn’t hit him back. He just took it all. His eyes met my mine, and I could see the sadness. He really had feelings for me, and it was killing me to see him hurt like that.
“Jaxon, stop! Let him go.”
Jaxon dropped Cade’s collar and let him fall to the ground. “If
