Chapter Seventy-Two

My heart had been racing just a minute ago as Carter had pounded into my body. It had calmed down as we laid there in post-coital bliss, but now it was pounding so hard that I thought it would fly out of my chest.

He laid there, looking at me like he didn’t understand what I said. My breathing had stopped and I found it even harder to speak than before, but I managed to repeat what I said. “I’m pregnant.”

He swallowed. “Are you sure?”

I nodded my head. “I took a pregnancy test.”

I braced myself for his next questions. Are you sure it’s mine? Didn’t you say you were on birth control? Are you trying to trap me? I knew I had to give him a few minutes for this to sink in, and I vowed not to hold it against him that he had these questions.

His hand moved to my tummy, touching me through the see-through fabric of the purple lingerie. Then he pushed the fabric up my body, press