Baby Mine (Stubborn Texas Siblings Book 1) by Faith Loveright Read Free Book Online

closed her bedroom door and slumped against it. Her heart hammered hard in her chest as she thought about the way his eyes had heated as he scraped them slowly over her body time and time again while they argued.
    If that man hadn’t been thinking about what two people normally did to create a child together the same way she had, when he’d told her that the child she already loved so much was his; she would happily eat her comfy fuzzy slippers. It was a safe bet that her favorite slippers would be just fine and live to see another day. It may have been only second hand knowledge gained from hanging with her friends and their husbands; but she knew the look a man got when he was sexually interested in a woman … and the big gorgeous man in her living room had unmistakably been wearing it on his face.

Chapter 6

 
    Eric lay on the short couch with his long legs dangling over the edge. His arm was slung lazily over his face as he struggled to bring his body back under control. He was thankful that Madeline had finally disappeared behind a closed door where he wasn’t forced to look at her enticing body any more.
    Guilt had flooded him the instant he’d recognized the signs of desire flickering to life within his body. In all his years on this planet, there had only been one woman who had ever stirred his interest in that way, and he’d buried her years before. He had thought he’d buried the need to push into a woman’s heat, right along with her, but he’d been sorely mistaken.
    He groaned low in his throat and settled his big hand over the hard, unmistakable proof of his desire; willing it to go away as easily as it had appeared. “Oh, Vic… I’m so sorry,” he mumbled as a tear slipped down his face and dropped onto the couch. “I swear to you… I’ll fight it with everything in me. It’s got to be just the circumstances… because she’s got our baby growing in her belly. As soon as the baby is born, this insane need will go just as quickly as it came. I’m a strong man. I can fight it for that long.” He wasn’t sure if it was his dead wife he was trying to convince or if it was more himself that needed to hear the words, but either way, he was determined to stick to them. Any other choice was unacceptable. There was no way he was going to cheat on Victoria, and despite the fact that she’d been six feet under for five years, he firmly believed that sleeping with any other woman would be doing just that… cheating.
    Come morning, Eric’s eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep combined with endless shed tears. He had fought the desire all night long, and still his body insisted on ignoring his demands to settle at ease. Every time he had closed his eyes during the long night, all he’d been able to see was Madeline’s slim figure being hugged by that sleek fabric that accentuated her curves rather than hide them. Her impossibly long legs had been the main focus of his wayward thoughts; or rather picturing them wrapped around his waist as he drove into her repeatedly.
    When she came out of her bedroom for the day, he swallowed a curse word and closed his eyes, not wanting to see her again, in case she was still wearing that barely there excuse for a night gown. She had tip toed past him into the kitchen and realizing she may be using this opportunity to escape him, he opened his eyes and leapt from the couch. His steps were long and ate up the length of carpet in four strides.
    Standing in the kitchen doorway, he noticed that she was fully dressed in a soft flowing floral skirt that fell half way between her knees and Heaven. Eric had to work hard to swallow the lump that formed in his throat and forced his eyes to lift to the back of her head since she was facing the window just behind the stove instead of where he was standing.
    “Are you ready to concede that I have every right in the world to be here yet?” he asked, walking in to the kitchen and taking a seat in one of the dainty chairs that