Griff moves toward me, stumbling a little bit on his feet.
“What are you doing here, Sunshine?” he asks, taking my face in his hands. “I have to touch you to know you’re really here.”
I close my eyes and lean into the warmth of his touch. My heart swells from the familiarity and comfort his caress brings.
That is until he grinds his erection into me and groans. I take a huge step back, breaking our embrace.
I feel like I’m getting whiplash from his intense mood swings. He went from being annoyed with me being at his game, to ecstatic to see me here, to being ready to throw down with one of his teammates, to grinding with me in a matter of minutes.
I come right out and blurt, “Griffin, I’m pregnant.”
A look of agony passes across his face before his mask of indifference slips back into place.
“You sure moved on quickly. Not like I can blame you. It’s been easier to numb the pain of losing Katie by blowing my load with a random here and there. But I didn’t take you to be so careless. It was one thing to go bare with me, but to trust some random guy—”
I don’t let him finish that statement. “I haven’t been with any random guys. Jesus, Griff. What is wrong with you?”
“What is wrong with me? What the hell is wrong with you? You come here, ask to get me alone, rub up on me, then drop a bomb that someone knocked you up?”
“Not someone.You.”
“Me, what?”
“You. You got me pregnant, Griffin.”
He lets out a low, menacing chuckle. “Get the fuck out of here with that shit, McKenna. I haven’t touched you in months. You can’t pin your mistakes on me. You probably can’t remember who the real dad is, so you’re trying to trap me with it so I’ll feel obligated to take you back.”
My head snaps back as if I’ve been slapped.
“I haven’t even looked at another guy.”
“Is that so? What about Ian Nelson? He seemed to know you pretty intimately,” he practically growls.
“Ian is Carson’s roommate. I don’t know much about him, so I’m unsure how he could know me intimately.”
“Don’t be obtuse. You don’t have to know someone to fuck them. I clearly didn’t know you.”
Unshed tears blur my vision. “Why are you being so cruel?”
“I’m not the one being cruel, Sunshine.”
“Please don’t call me that.”
“Yeah, you’re right. I suppose our time for niceties and nicknames passed the second you tried to trap me with a baby. How convenient that you get pregnant and then try to pin it on the nation’s top NHL prospect. I didn’t take you as one for a free meal ticket when you always have your mommy and daddy dearest to ride home to.”
Out of nowhere, Carson charges up to us and slams his fist into Griffin’s face. “You motherfucker!” Carse yells at Griff. I scream for Carson to get off him and bring myself between the two of them.
“I can’t believe I ever trusted that you’d take care of my sister. You can’t even take care of yourself,” Carson shouts.
Griffin is breathing rapidly; his eyes are gazing at me ferally, which puts me on edge.
“You need to stay the fuck away from me, McKenna. I mean it. Don’t make this ugly.”
“I can’t imagine this getting any uglier than it already is, Griffin. But the message was received loud and clear. I just thought you had the right to know. Howobtuseof me to think you’d actually want to be involved in your child’s life after knowing they exist.”
His wide eyes soften for just a moment. “Stay away from me, Sunshine. Please. Everyone I love dies. I can’t lose you too.”
I shake my head, tears streaming down my face. “If you ever truly loved me, you wouldn’t be sitting here breaking my heart into a million pieces, again.”
