Hunter’s POV
I kept kissing Sophia’s hand. I needed to touch her and kiss her. I couldn’t believe that I was going to have to let them lock her up again.
How long would it be until I got to hold her again? How long would it be until I got to kiss her again?
I couldn’t even go a minute without pressing my lips against her hand. How the fuck would I survive not being able to kiss her for longer than a minute?!
I tried to keep my eyes on the road, but it was so hard. I kept glancing at her and wondering what would happen if I just continued driving. Maybe we could run away from all of this? Maybe she wouldn’t have to go back into that fucking room?
“Maybe we could run,” I said quietly. “Maybe I could just continue driving.”
Sophia ran her fingers through my hair. I glanced at her and she gave me a small smile.
“I can’t run from this, Hunter,” she said softly. “It is inside me.”
I knew that, but I wanted to run from that fucking room.
“I love you,” she continued. “I will spend every second with my nose buried in books. I will tell my mom to give me every book she has. I won’t stop until I find a way, Hunter. My mom won’t stop until she finds a way. I will be out of there soon.”
I looked at her and sighed. Soon wasn’t soon enough.
“I know, Angel,” I said. “I just wish you didn’t have to go in there at all.”
She smiled and gave me a small nod.
“I know,” she said softly. “I wish I didn’t have to go in there either, but I do. I have to do it for you, Hunter. I have to do it for our future.”
I kissed her hand again and gulped. I loved her with the darkness inside her and I would love her if it stayed inside her.
“I am not risking our future, Hunter,” she added. “I am not passing this curse onto our children. This thing will stop with me.”
My heart raced and I looked at her. Hearing her say that we would have kids together had my body shiver and tremble with happiness. We would have kids together!
I looked at her lower belly and imagined her pregnant with my pup. My breath got caught in my throat and my heart doubled in size. A lump filled with so many emotions was stuck in my throat. I couldn’t look away from her belly.
“Eyes on the road, Hunter,” Sophia said, chuckling a little.
She took my free hand in hers and placed it on her lower belly. My heart skipped a million beats.
“There will be a pup in here in the future,” she said. “I am not letting him or her get hurt because of the curse.”
I tried to swallow the lump in my throat, but it was so hard. I imagined a little girl running toward me with her little arms reaching out for me. I imagined her calling me dad. I imagined holding her in my arms. I imagined it all and I was sure that my heart would burst.
I caressed Sophia’s belly and took a deep breath. I knew that she was right. I knew that we had to think about our future and the way darkness would impact it, but it was so hard to go against my instincts. I needed her beside me. I wanted her next to me all the time.
“I love you, Angel,” I said. “I will be there every step of the way.”
“I know,” Sophia said and placed her hand on top of mine.
I glanced at her belly one more time and smiled. My child would grow in there soon. A little girl who would be as beautiful as her mother or a little boy who would be as strong as she was. My child would be in there soon. My child.
We were only a few minutes away from the packhouse so I stopped the car on the side of the road. Sophia looked at me and furrowed her eyebrows.
“I need just a few more minutes alone with you,” I said as I unbuckled my seatbelt.
I did the same with hers and pulled her on my lap. I wouldn’t get another minute alone with her. Her family would want to spend time with her before she went back in there. I couldn’t deny them that. Alex would kill me.
Sophia wrapped her arms around my neck and kissed me. I pressed her against me and kissed her back as hard as I could. My hands were caressing her body and I tried my best to memorize every curve. I tried my best to memorize how her skin felt under my fingertips. I needed to gather as many memories as I could. I needed to have those so I could remember them when I started missing her. Which would be the moment those doors closed.
I lowered my lips to her neck and she moaned quietly.
“Stop it or I am going to need to change my underwear,” she said, chuckling a little.
I smirked and started sucking on my mark. She gasped and pressed herself closer to me. My dick got hard immediately. I pressed it against her and she moaned.
“We can’t do this here,” she mumbled but started grinding on me a little. “We are too close to the packhouse.”
She was right, though. It was only a matter of seconds before a car would drive past us. Someone might even hear us.
“I know,” I mumbled as I grabbed her hips and help her grind against me.
I didn’t want to stop, though. I really didn’t want to. I started kissing her delicious lips again and I grunted loudly when she tangled her fingers into my hair and pulled my head back a little. Our lips separated and she stopped grinding against me. I wanted to whine.
“You are driving me crazy,” she mumbled, panting hard. “We can’t do this here.”
I smirked and slapped her butt.
“I am not the one who started grinding against her mate,” I said, making her roll her eyes playfully.
I pulled her in to kiss her again. The kiss was short and filled with so much love that I almost teared up.
“I love you more than anything in this world,” Sophia said softly and leaned her forehead against mine. “I will be back with you soon. I promise, Hunter.”
I tightened my arms around her and took a deep breath. She had to be back with me soon or I would lose it. I wasn’t going to last long without her.
