Chapter 156

Especially after Eli Watson said Jason Smith liked stealing the women Henry was into. That one line… it’s always made me suspicious of him and Gemma Reid. Henry frowned and stood up too. His tone was cold. “You think just any woman can get pregnant by me? We were together for four years, and that only happened once by accident.” True. We’d been together for four years. His precautions were practically foolproof. I got pregnant after that one night. I’d found him totally wasted and slumped on the street. He was so drunk that night. I didn’t have the strength to get him home, so I took him to a nearby hotel. That was the night he, completely out of it, confessed his love, begged me not to leave, and kept calling my name. That time, in his drunken heat, he forgot the protection, and left behind a piece of his love — and I ended up with a tiny new life. If it weren’t for that drunken confession, maybe I wouldn’t have allowed myself to hope… to believe he loved me back. Then I wouldn’t have