She didn’t answer, so he continued, “Do you love us, Bristol?”
“Kaden…”
Pulling back, he met her gaze.
It was in those light blue eyes that he saw both confusion and remorse. It was enough to have him stepping away, his gut churning.
He realized she was having second thoughts.
“You can’t answer that, can you?”
Bristol swallowed, licked her lips, still looking uncertain. “It’s just … too soon, don’t you think?”
Too soon? She really wanted to play that card? After they’d spent a fucking year chasing after her, she thought that the future was too soon?
“I thought we were havin’ fun,” Bristol stated.
Kaden nodded because his throat was closing up now. No words could escape because he realized he’d done it again. He had leaped too far ahead, found himself in the deep end of the pool. This time by his damn self.
“You two all right?”
Kaden looked over at his brother, back to Bristol. Without a word, he turned and walked toward the front door, then continued right out into the night.
*
“What’d you say to him?” Keegan asked, his gaze cautious as he approached her.
“Nothing,” she lied easily. “One minute we were…”
Okay, so she couldn’t lie to Keegan. For one, there was nothing she could say that would rationalize the conversation that had just taken place. Kaden had taken her completely off guard.
Her move in with them?
How had they gone from this intense sexual relationship that was just starting up to … moving in together? She could count on one hand the number of times they’d had sex. Okay, maybe two hands. And one foot.
Whatever.
It was so … sudden.
Sure, they were having a baby together, but … well, women had babies all the time. A lot of them were single women. Having a spouse wasn’t a requirement for the role of mom. They weren’t ready for that sort of commitment. Merging their lives into one, that was ludicrous, right?
“Bristol?”
She wanted to scream. She wanted to cry. She wanted… Bristol wanted to go to sleep and wake up so she could do this day all over again. It was not going the way she would’ve expected. Not by a long shot.
It’d only been a week since they’d started talking again. And fine, they’d spent the night together a few nights, and yes, Bristol enjoyed those moments. But she hadn’t been expecting things to progress quite so quickly.
“Bristol?”
“Hmm?” She looked up, met Keegan’s concerned gaze.
“Where’s my brother goin’?”
“I don’t know.” And that much was true.
“What happened?”
“We were talkin’.” More like arguing, but whatever. “Then he mentioned me movin’ in and I might’ve reacted badly, but it doesn’t change anything. I mean, he’s movin’ too fast, right? Don’t you think?”
