Page 19 of Dominated By Love

I still couldn’t believe how he snapped on me when I told him that I was pregnant. After insisting for months that we stop using condoms, his sorry behind had the nerve to tell me that he knew I was trying to trap him from the start.He offered to give me half the money once I handled the business, then left me sitting in the café like he didn’t even know me. This was all my fault.

I knew there was a reason that my dad didn’t like him. Jaylen was such a punk. How dare he suggest that I was trying to trap him! I didn’t need to trap him or anyone else. I was perfectly fine being alone. He was the one who’d hounded mefor weeks, invading my space during lunch, sitting with me and my friends to talk to me, walking me to my apartment after class, and straight up begging for a chance to prove himself to me. Well, he’d officially proven that he was a bitch-ass nigga.

“Marry me.” KD interrupted my thoughts.

“Do what?” I asked, barely aware that he was still in the room.

“Marry me, Sage. Bash is putting me through school and helping me with some connections in his circle. I already make enough to support us and handle the business while you’re in school. You don’t have to worry about that soft-ass punk that got you pregnant. Let me take care of you.”

“I can’t do that to you, KD. This is my problem.”

“What do you mean? You wouldn’t be doing anything to me. You would be doing somethingforme. You know how I feel about you.”

“Yeah, that was before I was damaged goods. I’m carrying another man’s baby now.”

“You’re not damaged, Princess. You’re wounded.”

“Either way, I’m not doing that to you.”

“Let me help you, Sage.”

“What about my dad? What about Supreme? Between the two of them, we might not live to see our first anniversary.”

“Let me worry about them. I’m sure knowing that his baby girl is married to a man who’s willing and able to provide for her will soften the blow of finding out she’s pregnant.”

“But the baby is not even yours.”

“You think I don’t know that? I never even touched you until a few minutes ago.”

Hearing the door close behind me caused my back to straighten. From finding out my man was cheating, to crashing out at his house and getting arrested, my entire night was filled with one humiliation after another.

I walked into the room fully prepared to clear my head and let Klever take control. Then the jealousy and questions about who else had been given the privilege of experiencing him in this room took me out of my element. One thing was clear: He had been practicing.

Even with his shadow looming behind me, I felt safer than I had since I could remember. Actually, from the moment he told me he was coming, I knew that I was good. With Klever, I never had to wonder where I stood. He didn’t question or try to chastise me. All he said was “I’m coming.”

The reason I’d called him instead of my dad was because I couldn’t handle the judgment right now. Plus, I knew if I told Bash what Jaylen had done, he would have been sitting in a jail cell right beside me.

I didn’t know how long KD had been home, but the warm sandalwood scent that filled the air indicated that he had showered. My bare feet sank into the carpet in the dimly lit room as I waited for him to come into my line of vision.

It had been years since we had been together this way, but from experience, I knew to keep my back to the door. I kept my eyes glued to what I was pretty sure was a St. Andrew’s cross as my eyes moved to the leather chaise wondering where I would end up.

“Fuck, baby, you’re even more beautiful now than I remember,” he groaned.

I could hear him, but I still couldn’t see him. From the sound of his voice, he was still too far away.

“Thank you, sir.”

“Anything changed? Boundaries? Hard nos?”he questioned.

I jumped when his bare chest brushed against my back. His hands slipped around to cup my titties as he pressed a soft kiss to my shoulder. I literally shuddered. See why I was so terrified of this man? He had a way of taking full possession of my body. How the hell could I recover if he decided he didn’t want anything to do with me anymore? I had to stay in control of the situation.

“We don’t . . . well, we didn’t really experiment.”

“Oooh, baby doll, no wonder you’re so wound up.”

He circled me, scanning my mostly naked body with dark intense eyes. As I anticipated his next move, I was so lightheaded that I felt like I would pass out. Settling his gaze on my face, he stared at me with the intensity that I had been craving in secrecy for longer than I cared to admit.

“What’s your safe word, Princess?”