#Chapter 104: Tangled

Ella & Gabriel Ella Alexander and I had crossed a line that could never be uncrossed. I almost expected to wake and find him gone, too ashamed of our tryst to even spend the night with me, but he was there. I could feel his warmth tucked against my spine. His arm draped over my side and his hand gently resting on the swell of my belly while the morning sun warmed our faces. Careful not to wake him, I turned in his arms so I could look at him. Just one look to make sure it was real, that I hadn’t imagined all of it last night. My breath caught faintly as I turned to find that he was already awake, green eyes wide and looking directly at me. “Ella, about last night…” My stomach dropped. This was the part where he regretted everything and went back to treating me like a political necessity, wasn’t it? The part where he painfully reminded me that whatever brief moments of passion we’d had were unimportant and devoid of true feeling. “What about