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now. Not like this. She knew this wasn’t
going to be an easy conversation for them to have, and if nothing else, he was
going to be angry with her. All over again.
    When
she tried to pull away, Kane stopped her by firmly pressing his arm against her
back.
    “Don’t
leave me,” he warned, keeping her pinned in place by his heavy arm. “Talk to
me. Don’t pull away from me, Lucie.”
    Laying
her head back against his chest, Lucie inhaled deeply as she tried to gather
her thoughts. When it came to her reasons for not telling Kane he was a father,
she knew they probably wouldn’t sound as reasonable once she stated them out
loud.
    Honestly,
she hadn’t meant to hurt anyone, although that’s exactly what had happened.
Both Haley and Kane had suffered from her decision, and there were many nights
she had lain in bed wishing she could change how she handled the situation.
Figuring he deserved to know everything, Lucie started at the beginning.
    “I
found out I was pregnant when I was three and a half months along,” she began.
“I hadn’t felt well for a couple of months, but I figured it was my emotions
playing havoc on me.”
    “Why?”
Kane asked, brushing her hair with his fingertips.
    Lucie
knew her confession was probably going to push Kane away, but she decided to go
for it anyway. “After you and I slept together, my feelings for you only
intensified,” she stated and then paused to see if he would react. When he
didn’t, she continued, “I think I had been attracted to you all along, but I knew
better because you were – are – my boss.”
    That
was the hardest part of everything. Kane was still her boss.
    “The
night I drove you home, I had originally done so with good intentions. I didn’t
want you to drive drunk,” she admitted, although she had already told him this
part. She had just left off the emotional aspect. “When you invited me in, I
knew I should’ve said no, but part of me just wanted to be closer to you.”
    To
her surprise, Kane pulled her closer against him, and when she felt his lips
against her head, she had to choke back the tears that threatened to fall.
    “Honestly,
had I realized you were so drunk that you wouldn’t even remember sleeping with
me, I wouldn’t have gone inside.”
    “Tell
me what happened.”
    “I
already did.” Lucie had shared the high level details with him already, back
when she told him he was Haley’s father.
    “You
told me that you drove me home and that we slept together. I want to know all
of the details.”
    Lucie
sighed. It wasn’t like she couldn’t recall every single second of that night
because she had relived it over and over for the past six years.
    “Tell
me,” Kane whispered into the darkness.
    With
another deep sigh, Lucie began explaining, “You invited me inside, and I
agreed. Then you offered me a drink, and I refused, hoping you wouldn’t get one
either. I knew you were drunk, but I hadn’t realized just how intoxicated you really
were.”
    Lucie
closed her eyes, going back to that night...
    “Touch
me, baby.” The insistence in Kane’s tone was palpable, and Lucie wanted to give
herself over to this man. Even if for just one night, she wanted to know what
it felt like to be in his arms, to feel his mouth, his skin, all of him against
her.
    With
her palms flat against his chest, Lucie met his gaze, looking up into the
swirling gray orbs, trying to decipher what he was thinking. Reading Kane’s mind
was impossible.
    “What
do you want from me, Lucie?” he asked when she didn’t move.
    “You,”
she admitted, knowing she was making a decision that she would never be able to
undo.
    “I’ve
waited so long to hear you say that,” Kane told her, sliding his fingers into
her hair and pulling her head closer.
    When
her lips met his, the world exploded around her, nothing and everything changed
in that moment. The warm, firm press of his lips, the insistent plunge of his
tongue into her mouth had Lucie feeling drunk,