His Human Surrogate (Monsters Love Curvy Girls #2) - Michele Mills Page 0,49

and not get in the way of this bonding time between you and the baby.”

I’m suddenly very confused, all I know is I want her here with me and our baby. “You don’t want to be here with the baby?” I ask.

She clenches her jaw. “This baby isn’t mine. It’s yours and some unknown donor’s. I’m not this baby’s biological mother, I’m the being who is carrying this baby and giving it life. I am happy with that. But I need you to let me leave immediately after I give birth, because…because I’m worried it’ll just make it harder for me.”

Oh Gods. I’m hurting her. I didn’t realize how hard it’s been for her, thinking she’s carrying a baby she’s supposed to give up. But how could I not have known? I don’t care anymore what the obstacles are, none of this is worth tearing up my female this way.

My original plan was to tell her right away. I wasn’t able to tell her my plans while I was in the midst of outbidding everyone else at the auction. I’d always planned on telling her the truth about the baby soon after we arrived on Tarvos. I couldn’t tell her my plans initially, for the same reason I can’t now—she’s not a natural liar. My female is true and loyal and honor bound. It’s why I love her so much, and she’d crack under the pressure of all the lies I’m juggling at the moment.

“Chloe, there’s something I need to tell you—”

“What?”

“This baby is yours.”

Her face brightens. “I get to keep your baby and raise it as my own?”

“The baby is yours,” I repeat.

She looks confused. “This baby, that is part yours and partly from a donor egg—I will give birth to the baby and raise it as mine? You’ll tear up the contracts and I can adopt it?”

“No, Chloe, this baby is yours. Yours and mine. When you went to the med lab all that happened is that they implanted you with my seed. This baby you are carrying is yours and mine. It’s always been yours.”

Her face turns pale. “This baby is mine?”

I feel like the worst male to ever walk the planet. I’ve been torturing my female with this. It was necessary for her safety, but still, I’ve hurt her.

“Mine?” she breaths. And then she sinks to the floor.

I rush forward to gather her in my arms. I place my hands on her swollen stomach. Right then the baby kicks. My son knows I’m near.

And I hear a noise.

Power to the entire domicile suddenly goes out.

I twist around and check the screens. Then I reach over and quietly initiate the lock down sequence. They can never cut power to the safe room, it has its own power source and separate communication line. I turn the lights off though, so we blend in.

“What’s happening?”

I press against her in the dark, covering her mouth with my claw. “Don’t talk,” I whisper. I can hear the intruder outside the safe room. So close. Meanwhile my hard cock is prodding against her ass. And my other claw is cupping the swell of her stomach. I am holding my child in my hand. Smoke wafts from my nostrils. “I will protect you.”

“Cap,” the comm in my ear crackles to life. “Don’t worry, we’ve arrived. Narcisstone is trying to eliminate the evidence. He thinks killing you and blowing up your command center will do the job. He is wrong.”

And then I see on the visual an armored vehicle roll up on my front lawn and a team of mercenaries swarm my house. What the hell? They had to have blown up the front gate to get this far. I stare in shock for a split second before my training kicks in. “Stay here,” I tell my female. “Don’t leave this room, no matter what happens.”

And then I depart, locking the door behind me.

First, I snap the neck of the assassin that cut the power. I’m on the second floor, when the mercenaries attack.

And then I hear the hover craft landing outside and I smile.

This will be over soon.

An hour later order is restored. Team Molten Lava has eliminated the mercenaries Narcisstone sent. Hannibal and the team are in my domicile, along with a swarm of Peacekeepers that eventually also arrived as a result of the guards at the gate managing to call for help.

I am covered in blood. There is a cut along my jaw and my wrist might be broken. But my