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BEAUTY AND THE BODYGUARD: DANGEROUS DESIRE BOOK 2 Chapter 152
NANCY'S POVAt the hospital he did the talking at the desk. I could not have formed a full sentence if I tried. They took us back quickly. The same doctor who had seen me after I fainted came in. She remembered my face. She remembered him too. She was calm in a way that made me want to scream and thank her at the same time.I gripped Zade’s hand while she examined me.I gripped it so hard my fingers hurt. He let me. He stood beside the bed and did not look away from my face, even when I knew he wanted answers from the doctor more than anything.“Is the baby okay?” I asked, before she had even finished. “Please. Just tell me.”“Give me a moment,” she said gently.Those seconds lasted years.Then she looked up and nodded.“The baby is fine,” she said. “Heartbeat is strong. This kind of light bleeding can happen. It can be from the cervix, or from strain, or from nothing we can point to. It is frightening, but it is not a miscarriage. Not from what I am seeing now.”The words did not lan
BEAUTY AND THE BODYGUARD: DANGEROUS DESIRE BOOK 2 Chapter 151
NANCY'S POV“Me either.”“I didn’t want to ask.” His voice had gone rough. “I thought if I asked, it would sound like I was trying to claim something. I didn’t want you to feel cornered. Especially not tonight.”“You didn’t corner me.” I stared at our hands. “I said our baby. I meant it.”He let out a breath that sounded like it had been stuck in his chest for weeks.“I don’t know how to do this part,” he said. “I know how to stand between you and danger. I don’t know what to do with a kid who might look at me one day and ask who I was before they were born.”“Then don’t think that far tonight,” I said. “Just stay here. That’s all I’m asking.”He nodded. His hand stayed where I had put it.“Can I tell you something without you thinking I’m trying to fix everything?” he asked.“Depends what it is.”“I’m glad you said our.” He swallowed. “I know it doesn’t mean you forgive me. I know it doesn’t mean we’re… anything. But I have been walking around this city telling myself I was only allo
BEAUTY AND THE BODYGUARD: DANGEROUS DESIRE BOOK 2 Chapter 150
NANCY'S POVThe rain filled the quiet between us. Slowly, my breathing evened. The shaking in my shoulders eased. The worst of the panic loosened its grip, leaving behind the raw, emptied-out feeling that always followed a dream like that.Zade noticed the change before I said anything. His hand stilled on my back. He did not let go immediately, but he loosened his hold, giving me the choice to stay or pull away.I sat back a little.He looked at my face as if he was checking for the last of the fear, then he let me go completely. The sudden absence of his warmth made the room feel colder.“Thank you,” he said quietly. “For letting me do that. For not sending me out of the room.”I wiped at my cheeks with the heel of my hand. “You don’t have to thank me for that.”“Yes, I do.” He stood, slow, careful not to startle me. “You didn’t owe me your trust tonight. You gave it anyway. That matters.”He turned toward the door.The sight of his back, of him leaving the room after I had just bee
BEAUTY AND THE BODYGUARD: DANGEROUS DESIRE BOOK 2 Chapter 149
NANCY'S POVThat night the dream dragged me back to Viktor’s compound as if I had never escaped it.The floodlights were too white. The air smelled of smoke and wet stone and gunpowder. My bare feet slipped on the rough ground outside the wall. I was climbing the gate again, iron cutting into my palms, when the first shot cracked through the dark.Zade staggered.I saw it the way I always saw it—his left hand pressing to his chest, the dark stain spreading through his shirt. Then the second shot. His knees hit the dirt. In the real memory he had kept firing from the ground. In the dream he did not.He fell all the way down.He did not get up.“Zade!”My voice tore out of me, but the compound swallowed it. I dropped from the gate and ran toward him, and that was when a hand closed around my arm from behind.I spun.Zade stood there.Not the living man. This version of him was wrong. His skin was too pale. His eyes were open and unblinking, glass-dull, fixed on my face without seeing it
BEAUTY AND THE BODYGUARD: DANGEROUS DESIRE BOOK 2 Chapter 148
Nancy’s POVThere was a short pause. I could almost see him standing in his office, or maybe in the study at the mansion, the same worry lines around his eyes.“I worry about you being all alone there,” he said. “France is far. If anything happened—”“Nothing’s going to happen,” I cut in gently. “I’m fine. Really. You don’t have to worry.”The lie sat bitter on my tongue. I wanted so badly to tell him about the baby. The words pressed against the back of my teeth. *I’m pregnant. The father is the man you want dead.* But if I said it, he would be on the next flight. He would arrive with men and questions and guns, and it would not take him long to find Zade. I was not ready for the war that would follow. Not yet.“How are you?” I asked instead.“Surviving.” A quiet breath. “I miss you.”“I miss you too.”We talked for a few more minutes—about the weather in both places, about a business deal he was closing, about nothing that mattered. When we finally said goodbye, I stayed on the edge
BEAUTY AND THE BODYGUARD: DANGEROUS DESIRE BOOK 2 Chapter 147
Nancy’s POVHe did not wait for more. He turned and walked out. Through the front windows I watched him cross the street and disappear around the corner. The ordinary sounds of the office slowly returned. I stared at the space where he had stood and felt the complicated mix settle over me again—gratitude, residual anger, confusion, and the reluctant warmth that kept growing no matter how carefully I tried to hold it back. I rested one hand against my stomach under the desk. The baby was quiet. I was not. Something in me had laughed with him, really laughed, for the first time in a long while. The sound of it stayed in my chest, tangled up with all the reasons I had given myself not to let him close. I turned back to my computer and tried to focus on the work in front of me. After work, Zade was already waiting outside the building.He stood near the curb with his hands in the pockets of a dark jacket, the evening light catching the hard line of his shoulders. When he saw me com
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