Love Child by Kat Austen Read Free Book Online

and second as the mother of their child. Does that make sense?”
    I noticed him nod as he slid as close as he could toward me. Now both of our knees were bumping against each other. The warmth from his body radiated over mine. The strength I knew he possessed seemed to cast a net over me, protecting me from the whole entire world.
    “Does that make you change your mind about me? Now that you know I’m inexperienced?” I pulled at the hem of my nightgown, suddenly self-conscious.
    Abel’s hand reached out, stilling mine. His fingers scrolled across the exposed skin of my leg. “No,” he breathed. “A thousand times no. Knowing you’ve saved your body for this, for me . . .” His jaw ground together as the muscles spanning his shoulders bulged beneath his skin. “It’s taking every fiber of willpower I have in my possession not to lay you down right here on the kitchen floor and plant my baby in your virgin womb.”
    His voice was coming from low in his chest, giving me chills. I imagined him saying other things in that tone in my ear tomorrow night, his body tangled with mine. My skin broke out in goose bumps. When Abel felt the raised skin on my leg, something dark shadowed his expression. It looked like that last fiber of willpower had just slipped free.
    When I opened my legs the smallest bit, his hand slid up the inside of my thigh and slipped beneath the hem of my nightgown.
    My heart wasn’t in my throat anymore. It was between my legs.
    His hand stilled when it reached the apex of my legs, his fingers gliding along the wetness coating my skin. When I rolled my hips just enough to rub my panties against his knuckles, he groaned.
    Like I was both torturing him and pleasuring him at the same time.
    “I want to take you right here so badly I think it might kill me if I don’t.” When his knuckles brushed me again, eliciting a groan from me this time, the veins running down his forearms looked ready to burst. “But I will do right by you no matter what, Adeline Matthews. I won’t fuck you on some tile floor like I’m tempted to right now. But I will make love to you tomorrow night, in my bed, nice and slow so I won’t hurt you. I will take my time so I can give you pleasure.”
    Now his fingers were touching me through my panties, making my head fall back into the drawers behind me.
    “Why can’t you just take me into your bed right now and do that? Technically, it’s the fifteenth.” I checked the clock on the wall, moaning when he circled a certain place that was making me feel like a one-track-minded organism.
    I didn’t miss the warning that flashed across his face. It read don’t tempt me.
    “Because having just found out your body is unspoiled, that no man has touched you the way you’re allowing me to . . .” Just as I could feel something starting to spiral inside me, Abel’s finger stopped moving. “I wouldn’t be able to control myself. I couldn’t be slow and careful. I wouldn’t be able to stop. That’s why we need to wait for tomorrow night. So I can build up the reserves of restraint you’ve managed to diminish with one word.”
    Coming down from whatever place Abel had soared me to, I opened my eyes to find him rising, his manhood still straining through his pants. He was right. With him being so large and me being so inexperienced, we should be careful. We should go slow and steady.
    That was what my head told me. Everything else was telling me something else.
    Gathering me up in his arms, Abel lifted me from the floor, carrying me out of the kitchen.
    “The rest of the mess.” I yawned, feeling sleepy all of a sudden.
    His arms held me tightly. “I’ll take care of it. I need you to get your rest.”
    “Because it’s late?” I guessed around another yawn, burrowing into his warm chest.
    He grinned into the dark as he carried me down the hall. “Because you will be getting very little of it tomorrow night.”
    My stomach dropped when the look he gave me matched the