Millicent
I woke to sunlight streaming through my bedroom windows and Abel's arm heavy across my waist. For one blissful second, I forgot everything except how right it felt. Then reality crashed down like a sledgehammer.
Three days. We'd been f*****g for three days straight.
My heat had finally broken sometime during the night, leaving me clear-headed for the first time since Friday. Clear-headed and absolutely terrified. Because I was naked in bed with Abel Cielo, my boss, my mate, the man I'd been lying to for months. The man whose baby was growing inside me.
Oh god. The baby.
My whole body went rigid as panic flooded through me. I'd spent three days in heat-driven delirium, begging for his knot, screaming his name, completely out of my mind with need. Had I said anything? Had I le
