Pregnant with the Wrong Man’s Child
He adjusted his cufflinks with the same precision he used in everything else, a man who never left anything to chance.
“I am not afraid,” I lied, though my pulse betrayed me.
His gaze lingered on me in the mirror, steady and unreadable. He stepped closer, his presence filling the room, his hand lifting as though to touch my shoulder. For a second, I thought he would. He didn’t. The absence of contact burned more than the touch itself might have.
“Good,” he said softly. “Because fear is exactly what they feed on.”
***
The Blackwood estate was unlike anything I had ever seen. Acres of manicured gardens stretched endlessly, marble columns rose like watchful sentinels, and the windows were so ta
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