“Yes.”
“Really?”
Another chuckle left my mouth. “Yes, Athie. Now, I’ll make us breakfast,” I murmured against her lips. “Don’t move.”
It was half selfless, half selfish to keep her in my bed. I wanted her to feel special after she’d confessed that she loved me last night, but I also so desperately wanted to get rid of those pills in the kitchen cabinet. Now.
Instead of heading right for the pantry closet to grab the pancake mix, I glanced behind my shoulder to make sure Athena hadn’t followed me and headed straight for the cabinet where she kept her birth control pills.
Once I found them hidden in the back, I grabbed them and walked to the trash. I glanced down at them to see that today’s pill was still in the packet. But so was yesterday’s and the pill from the day before.
Every single one of them since we had started this little relationship.
My dick hardened inside my pajama pants. Fuck!
Athena had always—always—taken her pill. Almost religiously. She had multiple alarms set every morning to make sure she took it, but it wasn’t like she was having sex anyway.
Now she actually was, and she wasn’t taking them.
Fuck. Fuck! Athena wants this as much as I do.
I pushed each of the pills out of the packet, the silver lining breaking and the pills falling right into the trash, never to be found. I did it so every single one of them wasn’t in the packet any longer, and then I dumped the remainder of yesterday’s coffee grinds from the coffee maker over the top of them.
She had known my goal from the beginning. I had made a promise to her.
And after Derek had decided to take advantage of her, I wasn’t taking any chances. Athena was mine, and I wasn’t going to let her go. She was stuck with me forever. I’d make sure of it.
I shut the trash can and grabbed the pancake mix from the pantry, dumping some into our mixing bowl and pretending like nothing had happened. It wasn’t like she needed them anyway.
Just the thought of seeing Athena’s belly round with my baby …
Damn, it does something sinister to me. Makes me want to tie her up and breed her until she’s pregnant.
After adding some vanilla, milk, and eggs, I stirred the contents of the bowl, trying to calm myself down so I wouldn’t barge back into my bedroom and take Athie again. I didn’t want her to think that I was using her after she admitted all her feelings to me last night.
“It smells yummy in here,” Athie said, walking out in my oversize shirt.
Fuck, she knows exactly what she’s doing to me. Maybe she always has.
I set the spoon down in the bowl and cocked my finger. “Come here.”
Once she reached me, I seized her waist, set her on the counter, and stepped between her legs. She giggled, her red hair falling into her face, and tugged me closer to her, pressing her lips against mine.
I drew my hands up her thighs and gripped her ass underneath my oversize shirt. When she curled her legs around the backs of my knees and pulled me closer, I sucked her bottom lip between my teeth.
“God, you’re so sexy.”
My dick hardened even more, and I pulled it out, setting it right against her entrance. Athena sucked in a breath, her nipples becoming taut against my shirt. I pulled her closer and pushed myself into her tight cunt.
I would keep my promise to her. She’d be pregnant before my parents’ party.
CHAPTER
TWENTY-FOUR
ATHENA
“Where did you go last night?” Heather exclaimed, stalking into the apartment with Hector in tow.
