Arranged Marriage To An Egotistic Vampire... But Which One?? (Book 2)

Telling The Truth... It's Harder Than It Looks!!!

Telling The Truth... It's Harder than It Looks!!!

"Baby?" I repeated and took a step back.

He took a step forward and grabbed my arm roughly. "You're pregnant?!" He snarled at me and pulled me so that my body was moulded to his... Which I'm ashamed to admit felt a lot better than it should have.

"Well if I am then vamphandling me won't help anything then will it?!" I snapped, shaking off the warm feeling that had crept over me by his closeness.

"So it's true." Judging by the non-questioning tone I figured that he wasn't unsure anymore. "Is it mine?"

Ah... The question I'd been waiting for. I laughed and shook my head at him, crying on the inside. "Don't worry, it's not yours. It's my husband's so you won't be tied down." I ran my hand over my face and felt my inner sorrow surfacing. "Now I've got to go." Tears brimmed in my eyes but I blinked them back.

I walked around him and ran back to my room before I broke down in front of him. When I got there I went straight to the window seat, sat down and let the disappointment sweep over me like a tidal wave. The realisation that James didn't truly love me like another blow to the stomach. He left me and then he's worried to be tied down by my baby.

I might not know who the father truly is but my baby will be loved and raised in a happy home with no knowledge of James ever existing!!! I just wish I could forget about him...

"Rose that baby could be mine." The voice came from the doorway and I groaned loudly.

"For God's sake go away!!! There has to be someone else you can bother now you know you definitely have no commitments to me!!!"

"Is that why you won't talk to me about your... Your..." He stumbled.

"Pregnancy!!! My pregnancy James! And what is there to talk about? You walked, I got married and am having a baby with Alex. I don't know what you don't understand about that?" I sat there staring at him with my head tilted to the side slightly and his expression turned from anger to sympathy and... Love? "Don't pity me James. I'm in a position most women would kill for."

"I don't pity you Rose. I envy you and always will. You love freely even when someone has hurt you-" I started to say I didn't love him but he carried on over me. "And you still love me because I can read your thoughts clearly in your head." He got down on his knees in front of me and I blushed slightly wondering where he was going with this. "You've not only given me your love, you've given me the child I always wanted with the woman I love more than anything in the world." He grabbed the back of my neck and pulled me so close to him I could feel his shallow breaths on my lips but before I could protest- which I would have eventually done!!- he brought his lips to mine and began to kiss me gently like a long lost lover had returned... Which isn't that far off the truth.

After longer than it should have been, I pulled away from him and felt ashamed of the memories flooding back to my first ever time... My first time with HIM. Reading my thoughts he smiled seductively and whispered in my ear, "fancy going for round two?"

That snapped my thoughts from that amazing night and back to present. "It would be round three for me." At his puzzled look I explained, "my second 'round' was on my wedding night with Alex which is how I've become pregnant so you now need to leave and stay away from my family."

"You're the only family I want!" he shouted.

"You left me! You left us!" I shouted back and rubbed my stomach without thought.

"I had no choice in that but I have a choice in it this time and I will never leave you this time. I will go to the grave with you." He added solemnly and my heart stopped for a moment at what he was saying. A lifetime with James loving me...