Chapter 67
Logan
PRESENT
I wondered if Hadley knew.
As I stared at the little package in my hand, a sense of urgency rushed through me.
She didn’t want kids. Or she did but not yet anyway. I had other plans for us. For her. Whether she liked it or not, she would either get pregnant before our wedding day or shortly after. I had every intention of marrying her first before she found out about my plan, but she was smart. I was sure she would figure it out. Especially when I made her take a pregnancy test.
The sound of the door to our condo closing, jarred through me. I quickly put Hadley’s package of birth control pills away in the drawer she kept them in and went out to greet her.
Once I stepped out into the hall, I made my way to the living room.
“You know. I love your mom and sister, but I really wish they would let me plan things my own way for our wedding.” Hadley sighed, dropping her purse on the table by the door. “I’m tempted for us to just get married at a courthouse.”
Not happening but I gave her a small smile anyway.
“I know that would never happen,” she continued, taking the thought right out of my head. “I’m just frustrated. It’s like they’re the ones getting married and not us.”
Before she could continue with her rant, I went up to her and pulled her into my arms.
She sighed, wrapping herself around me.
Capturing her mouth in a hard kiss, I sucked a moan right out of her. Even though I would have loved to have taken this further, I didn’t and broke the kiss but kept her safely tucked in my hold.
“What was that for?” she asked, her cheeks pink.
“I love you,” I told her, running my hand down the spine of her back before cupping her ass. “And I’m sorry my mom and sister are being the way they are but it’s only for a few more days and then you’ll be my wife.”
She shivered. “God, I can’t wait.”
“Good.” I placed a soft peck on her mouth, trailing it down the length of her jaw to her ear. “Because I’m getting you pregnant on our wedding night.”
Hadley laughed, pushing out of my hold, and grabbing her purse from where she left it on the floor. “You’re funny.” She thought I was kidding but I wasn’t.
I had power but not enough, so there was no way that I could have changed out her birth control pills for something different. But after doing some research, I found out that there were some antibiotics that increased the chance of the birth control not actually working. It wasn’t guaranteed but something told me that it would work. If it didn’t, I would have to resort to something else. Something more sinister. I almost hoped that this first part of the plan wouldn’t work, just so I could see how far I would be willing to go to put a baby in Hadley’s belly.
Only time would tell.
***
HADLEY
PRESENT
My mother in-law and sister in-law tried getting me to spend every hour I could with them the night before my wedding to Logan but for some reason, he wouldn’t let me out of his sight. I hadn’t been feeling well earlier in the day and ended up throwing up a few times that morning. When he found that out, he was nothing but kind. He took care of me all day and once I told him I was feeling better, he fucked me.
Twice.
It was pushing ten at night and I knew that I should have left the apartment to get the final things ready for our wedding the next day but a part of me hoped that he would come for me again. He had gone out with some friends for a few drinks and left me naked in bed.
“It’ll give me something to look forward to,” Logan murmured, kissing me hard on the mouth.
“You could just stay here, and we can do this all night,” I suggested.
He chuckled. “Twice wasn’t enough for you, my greedy girl?”
“It never is.”
And that was the truth.
Ever since I met Logan and we slept together for the first time; I couldn’t get enough of him. He brought out things in me I never even knew existed before him. With the other guys I had dated over the years, they never compared. Logan was who I was meant to be with.
Even though he had his moments where he was an asshole at best, I knew he loved me. But a part of me wondered if that love didn’t go beyond that. Was it love or was it more?
A couple of hours after Logan had left me in bed, I took a shower, hoping that he would come home while I was in it and join me. But that never happened.
I tried fighting the disappointment settling deep in my stomach, but I couldn’t help it. I knew the guys he had gone out for drinks with, would take him to a strip club. This jealousy rearing its ugly head in me, was new. Over the years, I had never felt it before. Not with the women that Logan knew or even the women who had the audacity to hit on him right in front of me. None of that mattered because I knew where he was sleeping at night. He had always been polite whenever he turned the women down. He would pull me close, kiss my cheek and thank them for the compliment.
But this time I wasn’t with him. I didn’t like most of his friends, but I put up with them for him. I didn’t have a lot of girlfriends my own self. The friends I did have, I had been introduced to through my future sister in-law.
Our worlds were very different.
The only true friend I had, was Pamela.
Finishing up my shower, I decided to give her a call. Even though I would see her the next morning, she knew I needed to stay home and be away from my future in-laws. She was okay with giving me space thankfully. But before I could call her like I wanted, the door to the apartment opened with a loud bang.
Tightening the towel around my body, I headed out into the hall and saw Logan standing in the entranceway.
His head lifted, his bright blue gaze catching mine. “Come here and drop to your knees.”ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .
“Are you drunk?” I asked instead of doing as he demanded.
“Nope. Those fuckers were trying to get me drunk, but I wouldn’t allow it. I don’t trust them not to do something stupid and get another woman involved. I don’t need that shit when I’m marrying you tomorrow.” He lifted a hand before I could comment about how much I hated his friends. “And I know. Before you say anything, Hadley, I know.”
“Do you, Logan? Your friends, if that’s what you can even call them, would do everything they could to get you to cheat.” I wasn’t sure if that was true or not but when Logan only grimaced, I knew that my jealousy was warranted in this case.
“It would never happen.” He took a step toward me. “Now come here.” “No.” I stood my ground and lifted my chin defiantly. “You come here.”
Instead of demanding that I listen to him, he surprised me and did as I said. He closed the distance between us, our mouths the first to touch.
“I love you, baby,” he whispered when it was well past midnight.
I sighed, snuggling into him, and shivering when his cock
pressed up against my ass. “I love you too.”
“I know they say it’s bad luck to see the bride before we’re married but thank you for staying home.”
Rolling onto my side, I stared up at the man I was going to spend the rest of my life with. “Thank you, Logan. For everything.”
A thought crossed my mind. It came on so sudden, it took my breath away.
“How are you feeling?” he asked me, referring to how I had been feeling earlier the day before. When his hand cupped my stomach, I knew.
“I think I might be pregnant,” I told him.
“I know you are.”
I sat up, forcing his hand to drop from my abdomen. “How could you know that? I don’t even know that. Not for sure anyway.”
Logan slipped from the bed and went to a bag I never even noticed, that was sitting on top of his dresser. “Here.” He came back a moment later with a small package in hand.