A Cowboy In Love
Chapter 31

-Why are you looking at me like that?

- Because I can't believe you're pregnant, and I can't believe how much I want to make love to you.

- You're shameless, you were with another woman and according to what you just said everything went perfectly. And now you're telling me you want to sleep with me, you're a cheeky little prick!

-If I remember correctly, you did the same with me, except you were already pregnant.

She bit her lip to silence the whole thing she wanted to tell him.

-I think you'd better leave.

- My date was right here Megan, in fact, it was in my own office.

- Oh great! You plan to tell me the details. He was so cynical that he had brought another woman into the same place where he had made love to her.

- I wasn't with a woman Megan, I was with some cattle buyers until a while ago I was with them.

Oh for heaven's sake, and she was making accusations and jealous scenes. I wished the earth would swallow her up.

-Well I congratulate you! Now why don't you go away!

He walked up to her and hugged her, feeling the small bulge in her belly felt strange but at the same time it was so familiar, as if it belonged to him. He felt so overprotective of her and he didn't understand why. - Jack don't make things harder.

- Why? Because you're in love with another man. Because you're in love with another man, and a sense of loyalty prevents you from embracing me.

- No. Simply because I don't understand the reason for your embrace.

It's what I want to do right now.

Jack, you like me. Because you don't realise that.

- If I like you, and I like making love to you, I'm absolutely sure of it.

- Then why don't you want to have a relationship with me?

- Well now what good is that, you're pregnant by someone else and to top it off you're in love, I don't think there's much room in your heart for me. Do you think so?

- Yes I think so, besides why were you so jealous about my date?

-I wasn't jealous.

- Of course you were.

- Well yeah, I like you Jack even though that's obvious.

--What if I wanted you all to myself?

She pushed him away and looked at him angrily...

- Do you now? When you told me months ago that I wasn't on your list as a candidate because according to you I'm a city woman, now you come to tell me that you want the full combo from me. -I didn't say I wanted it, I said, maybe.

- You know Jack, because of your doubts you've missed out on a lot of important things.

- Like what? He frowned.

He was waiting impatiently for her answer, which he was about to do, he was actually going to confess the truth to her right there and then?

- I'm tired and I'm very sleepy, I don't really know what I'm saying. This conversation will get us nowhere.

- Don't think you'll get me to change the subject.

- Well, that's up to you, I'm going to sleep. I'm going to go to sleep." She pushed him aside and pulled back the covers to get into bed.

He hugged her back and she shivered. Sometimes he could be so tender with her that he melted her completely and she only wanted to give herself to him without reserve, he began to caress her belly with his big hands, she felt the urge to tell him the truth but she thought about how he would take the news. Her eyes began to blur and she tried to hold back the tears, the scene was so tender if he just told her that he loved her and wanted to be with her it would all be different, they would be in their room making love or sleeping in each other's arms.

He pulled up her pajama top and touched her bare belly, Megan felt a current run through her body, no one had ever touched her belly until now and it had just been Jack the father of her baby. He was bewitching her with his caresses.

- You're so soft Megan, what s*x is the baby?

- It's... It's a boy. She had her eyes closed, concentrating on his caresses, oh dear, they had to stop, they couldn't make love every time they were alone. -For Jack, it's better not to go on.

- I want to make love to you, I know you do too and as far as I know your condition is not an impediment.

- It's not a good idea.

- He will never make love to you the way I make love to you. He turned her around and kissed her with burning passion, like a man who hadn't tasted a woman's flesh for years. She let the kiss intoxicate her, sweeping her into a sea of pure pleasure. Megan hadn't woken up this relaxed in months, she had made love to Jack earlier that morning. He had been so tender, too tender for what she expected, he was definitely a dangerous cowboy, the way he treated her by making love to her so delicately had made her fall even more in love. He had left early before everyone was up, what was she doing? She had to make a decision, either tell him the truth or shut up and leave at once.

He had spent the day thinking about what to do and at the end of the night he made a decision. When everyone was asleep, she left her room and set out to look for him in the house, if she couldn't replace him in her office he would be in her room. She found him in his room, he was very surprised to see her at his door, he was only wearing jeans with the zip open, he was barefoot as if he had just arrived.

Sorry, am I interrupting you?

- Not me, I was going to take a shower but why don't you come in.

- Yes, thank you! She walked in, remembering the last time she had been there with him.

- Did something happen?

- No. Well yes! You see it's very complicated.

-Sit down then.

-I'm fine like this.

- I'm listening. She folded her arms.

- I'm almost five months pregnant Jack. She decided to get straight to the point and wait for his reaction.

He frowned and blinked as if trying to understand what she had said.

- What?

-That I'm almost five months pregnant.

- That means you weren't pregnant when you got here.

- No, I wasn't!

- Then you got pregnant afterwards.

- Yes, I did!

- Then... he was looking at the floor while he was talking and thinking, until he looked up and looked into her eyes. - Are you saying it's mine? She didn't know if his face was one of shock or doubt. - If it's yours!

Silence reigned between them, a cold current ran up from her feet to her spine, it was the moment of truth.

- Me. He closed his eyes and then opened them. -I always thought you took care of yourself.

- I'm sorry, I wasn't much of an expert in those matters. She said apologetically.

- What do you mean by that? I asked you if you were a virgin and you told me you were not. I, Hmm... I assumed that you were, well you know Megan.

- And I wasn't, well almost.

- What do you mean almost? You'd better explain yourself. He said crossing his arms.

- I, well don't look at me like that ok. I had only been with one man before you, and it was only once.

- You mean I... Oh God, I was practically the first Megan. She ran her hands through her hair and started walking around the bed.

- Well yes sort of, but don't make a big deal out of it.

He didn't know if that news excited him because no idiot had ever touched her after him, or scared him because she was expecting his child.

- How long ago was that?

- Five years ago!

Oh dear! She was practically a virgin, and he had been a brute to the fullest.