Chapter 10 – Watching her.A month laterAnastasia BeatonPOVFor four months Reed and I had been seeing each other, but since Sadie and Beckett’s wedding I’ve been avoiding him. I didn’t know how to explain what happened between Axel and me. I really started to like Reed, we got on so well, but I can’t force feelings and after what happened between Axel, and I realized just how much I loved him. Axel being Axel of course was honest with me and told me he would never get married or fall in love with anyone.Though I was happy I lost my virginity to a man that loves me I couldn’t be happier. I haven’t told a soul about what happened between us. And when I spoke to Reed, I told him I didn’t see us going anywhere, but since that text I haven’t seen him since.I still look at Axel occasionally and picture a future with him, especially since this case we’ve been working on has taken dead end after dead end. I have the day off and I’m visiting Gracie, I haven’t seen her since the day before
Chapter 11 – She’s pregnant.A month laterAnastasia BeatonPOVIt’s been another month and we still have no leads. They’re no longer following me, or that’s what we believe to be the case. I’ve been staying away from my family and asked my brothers to stay with my father to keep him safe. We’ve been working day and night to catch the people responsible for Jessica Walkers murder and the other ten girls who reported being raped. There might be a lot more cases but they’re afraid to speak up about it.Axel has noticed a trend all the girls are virgins. They were going after girls who swore to wait until marriage to have sex. Girls who wore purity rings.I haven’t gone to work all week and I’ve been booked off sick. This point I can’t even get out of bed. I’ve caught a cold and have been throwing up, my stomach is working, my head is killing me. and I constantly feel nauseous. I’ve decided to drag my dead body to the hospital to have myself checked out. I couldn’t take it anymore. The I
Chapter 12 – Coming clean to his brothers…One week later…Axel KingPOVIt’s a week after the bomb Beaton left me with. Another kid. Damn River isn’t even one yet. I asked my brothers to come over to my apartment to come clean about what happened between Beaton and me. Over the span of a week Beaton and I came up with a plan. She agreed to marry me. We agreed it wouldn’t be an intimate relationship and that we’re doing it for our children. She met River the next day and River loves her. though she’s not vocal yet, she lays on her chest and rubs her head against Anastasia chest. Though when she did that, I admit I had some impure thoughts about my baby momma.“So, you going to tell us why you called us over to your place for a beer?” Damon asks.I don’t say anything but hold my beer in my hand. We were sitting at my kitchen island.“Axel did something happen?” Beckett asks.He looked terrible, he looks worse than Damon and I did when we first had our babies’ home from the hospital.“N
Chapter 13 – Speaking to her father and brothers.Anastasia BeatonPOVToday it’s seems as though had I woken up on the good side of the bed. I woke up with no nausea, my stomach didn’t feel like I needed to be plastered on the toilet, so I called my father and brothers asking them to meet me at my childhood home. I was going to break the news to them about my pregnancy and impending engagement.I didn’t know how they were going to take it, Axel’s telling his brother’s today, we’ve decided to wait to tell his parents until we go to the hospital and figure out what to tell them. Though he promised we’d act in love when he meets my father and brothers. That was the only reason I was currently sitting in my car outside my childhood home.I swallow the lump in my throat. I haven’t been here since my mom passed. I would meet my father at the restaurant not far from here, or we’d meet at my place or one of my brothers’ place. This place brings back too many memories of my mother. Right here
Chapter 14 – Doctor’s visitThree weeks laterAnastasia BeatonPOVFor the past three weeks Axel and I have spent most of them together. I’ve officially been put on desk duty. And for some reason I’m not mad about it.Axel and I have done a lot of talking not, just that but two weeks ago we talk about looking for a place to stay that would accommodate all three of four of us. Since we needed at least four bedrooms. One for him, one for River, one for the new baby and then other for me.I smile when I think about the visit the two eldest King brothers came to see me. They were concerned for me and wanted to know how I was feeling. I told them the truth about what happened. Damon was spotting a frown from beginning to end but didn’t say anything. Just before they were leaving, they promised to help me win Axel’s heart and to help me get him to fall for me. I just have to be patient and understanding.What they didn’t realize is that I’ve always been patient and understanding when it cam
Chapter 15 – Telling his parents’.Axel KingPOVWe were silently driving to my parents’ house, I couldn’t believe this, twins. Two children. I’ve heard my brother complain about how out of control the twins were, when one cried the other would wake up as well. How were we going to cope with River and two other babies as well?My mom wouldn’t be able to help. The nanny I hired would for sure quit. She didn’t have to, but she helps my parents with the three babies. Damon and Jessica’s two and River. Damon pays her of course. She wouldn’t want to help with Oakley and the two in Beaton.I pause and look at her belly. That’s where my babies were resting, growing. In just six months they’d be born, and they’d be in my arms. I’ve been in such a panic I almost forgot about the magical moment I experienced crying staring at a damn blob. I didn’t even know what I was looking at, at first. But then when I realized that was my baby, my baby growing inside of Beaton, there was this feeling of pea
Chapter 16 – Planning and schemesAnastasia BeatonPOVWhen I got home last night from Axel’s parents’ house I went straight to bed, when I woke up this morning Axel has already left for work. He left a note asking me to drop River off at his parents’ place. He and River has gotten comfortable at my apartment. It’s only the second time they’ve slept over although Axel sleeps in my guest bedroom. I still feel a little nervous having him around, like I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop. I’m going to say or do something, and he’ll go off on me like he used to. I’ve had this fear ever since I found out I was pregnant. I’ve been keeping my distance out of fear of doing something wrong.I quickly get ready for work; I wear simple skinny jeans and a long sleave shirt and a pair of boots. I wasn’t leaving the station, so I didn’t care what I was wearing.Once dressed I quickly got River ready to go to her grandparents’ place. If I have a daughter, I want her to look like River, well like A
Chapter 17 – You’re being watched...Axel KingPOVWhen the person on the other line hangs up, I frown. Gracie… I look at the name on the screen, I remember the name. I have no idea from where, but I remember the name. Have I met her before?I shake my head; I didn’t need to wreck my brain thinking about it. I could ask Beaton when she gets out of the shower.I shouldn’t be thinking about her in the shower. because my brain keeps thinking about Beckett’s wedding and how amazing her body looked with my hickeys on her. How amazing her curves loved. It’s been months and her body has been engraved into my brain. There was no getting rid of it.I started to feel a little uncomfortable. I adjust my pants before trying to focus on the game on the screen. I used to play soccer in high school, I wasn’t bad at it. I didn’t really want to play but Damon sat Beck and I down when we were younger and told us, since we weren’t sure what we wanted to study we should play a sport we took a fancy to so