Chapter 139 A Name to Belong To
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“So you can’t ever leave me!” Baron said as he leaned forward, trying to pull Natalie into his
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She smelled faintly of soda water–clean, crisp, with a sweetness that was uniquely hers. The scent made him dizzy, made him want to sink into her.
But Natalie dodged out of reach. “My body hasn’t fully recovered yet. Don’t touch me like that. And I did say I’d consider being with you, but you have to give me time.”
Baron’s face fell at once. “Don’t tell me you still expect us to sleep in separate rooms.”
“Isn’t that normal?<b>” </b>
Natalie’s cheeks burned. Back when her body was covered in burns, she hadn’t thought about such things. But now that she had healed, of course Baron would want to share a bed. Even so, it still felt too fast.
His voice grew pitiful. “You’re throwing me out? Before, when you were hurt, fine, we didn’t sleep together. But now you’re healthy again, and you still want me gone? How will that look to the kids?”
Natalie blinked. She had forgotten about the children.
“They’re still little. There’s no need to exin this kind of thing to them.”
“They’re not that little. They’re about to start preschool. What if they ask me why all their ssmates‘ parents sleep together, but their daddy and mommy don’t? What am I supposed to say?”
Natalie opened her mouth, but no words came. “Would they really ask something like that?”
Baron only gave her a wounded look, and somehow she couldn’t bear it.
This was Baron–cold, untouchable, feared by so many. The man whose power made others tremble. Yet here he was, looking aggrieved, almost pitiful. The sight left her heart aching.
“But us being together without any status… that’s not right either.”
“Then give me a status. The courthouse is still open. Let’s register now.”
Natalie froze. “Re… register?”
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“Of course. You said yourself–I saved your life, you’d repay me with marriage. You said you might not give me the love I want, but you’d try. We already have two children, and your health is better now. Don’t tell me you’re nning to go back on your word.”
His gaze was full of hurt and doubt.
Natalie’s lips parted, but nothing came out. He wasn’t wrong–she had said those things. But wasn’t this too fast? Marriage papers, just like that?
Baron pressed on. “And think about the children. They’ll start preschool soon. If their files say they’re illegitimate, how will that look? Before, when you were with Jensen and didn’t know about them, it couldn’t be helped. But now? Now you know. Now you’re with me. And still you’d let them be called bastards? Do you want them mocked and bullied?”
Natalie’s mind shed back to her own childhood–her fall from grace after leaving the Summers family, the sneers and taunts, the cruel bullying from so–called friends who turned on her.
<i>No. </i><i>Never</i><i>. </i>She couldn’t let her children go through what she had suffered.
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“Then let’s go! I’ll have Shauna bring the car around.”
Before she could finish, Baron had bolted out the door.
Natalie stared after him, torn between exasperation andughter. She had only meant it was too soon, yet he acted as though she might vanish at any moment.
But Baron wasn’t about to waste time. He had waited long enough. If they registered before the Stone family’s DNA test results came back, then Natalie would already be Mrs. Gunn. No amount of disapproval could undo that. They wouldn’t dare ask their daughter to divorce.
And with the way Mrs. Stone clung to Natalie, he wasn’t about to risk dy.
The more he thought about it, the better the n seemed.
“Shauna! Shauna!”
Baron thundered down the hall, shouting for her.
Shauna, who had followed him for years, had never seen him like this. rmed, she bolted out, thinking something had gone terribly wrong in the organization. “Mr. Gunn, what happened? What’s the emergency?”
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