Tempt My Heart(74)
Taking his phone back, Jordon wraps his arm around me, pulling me against him and presses a soft kiss to my lips. He instantly causes my body to relax, and calm to settle over me.
Leaving my lips aching for more, he leans back against the chair and affectionately slides his hand into my hair, “We’ll get through this. Do not, for one second, let any of the things she said get to you. I love you, Brittan. Even if this baby turns out to be mine, I’ll never leave your side. I want you and only you.”
Holy shit!
He just said he loves me.
My heart is racing, and my stomach is filled with a million fluttering butterflies.
I can’t fight the tears filling my eyes; I am so damn emotional with all of this going on.
I fight to keep my emotions at bay. Blinking back the tears, I run my hands over Jordon’s prickly stubble and get lost in his intense stare. His eyes are a shimmering bright blue and so full of emotion. Just gazing into them makes my heart stammer against my chest and my head spin.
“I love you, too.” My words come out in barely a whisper. I find the strength to speak the three words I’ve only ever said to one other person. I’m terrified to admit I love Jordon. Now that we’ve said those three words out loud, there’s no turning back. “She underestimates me, and that’s her worst mistake. I will not allow her to use you or me to make money off of us. I will make damn sure if the DNA results come back and you are not the father of that baby that she gets slapped with a lawsuit. This should’ve been kept private between her, you and that Brock guy until you all know, without a doubt, who the father of this baby is. She’s just making herself look like trash by doing this.”
A smile spreads across Jordon’s face revealing a glimmer of that cocky asshole I met three months ago who shook my world and changed everything. I will do whatever it takes to protect him and what we have together.
“I’m sorry this is how I finally told you I love you, Brittan. I had it all planned out, with a nice dinner for just the two of us. I wanted the moment to be perfect.” He says with sadness and regret in this voice.
Immediately, I shake my head no and take his hands in mine, “This was perfect. I would rather you tell me in the heat of the moment when it feels real and amazing, instead of it being staged. I’ve wanted for weeks to tell you, but I just couldn’t find the strength to do it. I want you to understand when I tell you I love you; I mean it with everything that’s inside of me. I truly do love you.”
Lacing my hand with his, Jordon presses a kiss to my knuckles before getting back to business and calling his agent again. We want to have his publicist make an official statement before this blows up into something so big it’s impossible to try and fix.
The next three hours crawl by. I read every magazine in the waiting room before finally getting on my Kindle app and reading a book. I found it hard to concentrate, and had to keep re-reading the same paragraph five times because I couldn’t focus. My head has a million thoughts buzzing around inside of it making it impossible to do anything, but stress out.
My mind is wondering between everything from Kinsley to thoughts of Cane. I can’t help but wonder what he’s thinking. Is he okay with me opening myself up to loving someone else? Does he approve of Jordon? Will loving Jordon cause me to forget about Cane? I never want to forget him or what we shared. But I also don’t want me holding onto my love for Cane to hold me back from being happy with Jordon.
It’s all so overwhelming; I can barely think straight. My mind is on overdrive right now, and we still have dinner tonight with Jordon’s family. Now meeting them with this mess going on is scaring the shit out of me. I don’t know how they feel about Kinsley, and I wonder if they’ll push Jordon to be with her if he is the father.
Just as Jordon is walking back into the waiting room with chips from the vending machine, a nurse comes out in scrubs covered in little pink and blue baby footprints. With a sympathetic smile, she approaches Jordon.
“Mr. Valentine, Kinsley just gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. If you’d like to see her, you can come into the room now. Kinsley is resting, and the baby is asleep in her room.”
My body goes numb as Jordon takes my hand and pulls me out of the chair, “I’ll go in, but my girlfriend is coming too. This isn’t just affecting me; it’s affecting her also.”
No…no...no. I cannot meet that woman, or I may cause bodily harm to her, just giving birth or not.
“That’s fine.” The nurse gives me a sympathetic smile, which makes my stomach twist into knots. I can only imagine what is going through her head with all of this.