Page 85 of Reaper's Rival

Just like that, he switched gears. I gasped when he entered me and gave me everything I wanted. One last time.

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“I really needed that massage.” Kim sank into the spa next to me. “I swear this hot water is amazing.”

Kim hadn’t lied when she said she had booked us into the spa. After hours of being pampered I was forgetting all my worries and problems. But as soon as the massage was over, so was my break from reality.

Kim grinned at me. “Tell me, wasn’t this exactly what you needed?”

Why was she being nice to me? Kim and I hadn’t been talking. When we did, we would fight over Daniels. She couldn’t understand why I was with him, she was the only one that really knew what Daniels was like. She knew he was controlling, protective, and liked things bloody. He was nearly as hard as Damon and when I thought about it now, he was in fact harder than Damon. I knew Damon wouldn’t hurt a kid. Daniels had proved to me that he wasn’t above that. My blood ran cold, remembering how that boy’s body dropped, how his blood sprayed over me.

“Abby?”

I looked back at Kim. My thoughts had once again taken over. “What?”

“I said this was exactly what you needed.” Kim frowned at me. “Are you even listening to me?”

“My mind was somewhere else.” I sat back against the spa, enjoying the jet on my lower back.

“On this little one.” Kim touched my stomach and grinned at me. “I can’t wait to meet him or her. I don’t care if it is a boy or a girl but if it is a boy, he is totally going to be just like Reaper. You will have your hands full.”

“I’m not keeping the baby, Kim.”

Her mouth went tight and I knew that look. “Reaper mentioned that.”

I rolled my eyes. “Of course he did. So, is that what this spa day is about?”

Kim’s hand stayed on my stomach. “Abby, this is a miracle. You can’t just give him or her away. That is your son or daughter. My niece or nephew. Reaper’s daughter or son. You can’t just walk away from that.”

“I’m not fit to be a mother.”

“Why?” Kim looked at me, determined and pissed off. “What could possibly have you saying that? Is it because of Daniels, is he telling you can’t have this baby?”

Kim was looking at me wanting answers. Like she was trying to figure out my thinking.

“Daniels is bad news, Abby, you need to get away from him. He is ruining your thinking. If you were with Reaper right now, you wouldn’t even be thinking about giving up this baby.”

“You’re right, Daniels is bad news.”

“So dump him and be with Reaper. That man loves you more than you even know. I’ve been watching him for months struggling with you dating Daniels. To be honest, I don’t know how those two haven’t ended up in a fight.”

“It doesn’t matter anymore.”

“It does matter.” Kim gripped my wrist under the water. “I saw your tattoo. I know you love him. You are having his kid. Why can’t you be with him? Break up with Daniels.”

I looked around the otherwise empty spa room.

“I’m not dating Daniels.”

“Yes, you are. You have been with him for months.”

“I have been with him, yes. But we aren’t dating.”

“Then why are you together? Why do you spend every weekend with him?” Kim pouted her lips. “Why have you been putting up a front that you are dating him? Putting me through hell. And Reaper! Watching you date that lowlife!”

“If I didn’t,” I looked her in the eye. “Dad would be in prison.”

Kim’s mouth dropped. “I don’t understand.”

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