Chapter 37

• ARIA
• “What you saw in my office, it isn’t what it looked like,” When he turned back to me, his face was flushed with too many emotions that I could not read any “I’d never do anything to hurt my baby,” his gaze lingered on my stomach, then he reached out to touch it, but his hands paused mid-air. “Can I?”
• I nodded my head and gulped down the lump in my throat as his hands made contact with my stomach. He rubbed on it in a circular motion, and the butterflies in my stomach flapped their wings as usual. I felt warmth spread inside of me, and I held the wall to steady myself as I began to feel my legs vibrate.