Fight For Her (Soldiers in Arms Book 1) Read Online Free

like that in her life.
    Did she need someone like Walker, though?
    She glanced up at the man. He peered at her intently and she felt a blush rise. If she had a shot, she definitely did. She’d never met a man like him.
    He helped her lock up and gather up the takings for the night to count them in Justice’s office.
    “You don’t need to stay, you know.”
    But, God, she wanted him to.
    “I don’t mind. Got nowhere better to be.” He motioned to the till trays and the accounts book. “Are you okay doing all this?”
    She nodded. “I’m pretty good with numbers. Justice said she was happy for me to take charge.”
    Walker sat on the opposite side of the desk. “Justice is a good woman.”
    “She is.”
    “Does she know about the, uh, baby?”
    “No.” Waverly paused counting up the money. “Do you think I should tell her?”
    “It’s your business I guess but if it’s going to make it harder for you to work here, she should probably know. Tonight could have been avoided.”
    She sighed. “I know. The sickness hasn’t been that bad up until now, and I couldn’t bear it if she thought worse of me.”
    “There’s no way Justice would think worse of you. Hell, I don’t think any of us would. We’ve all made mistakes.”
    “My baby isn’t a mistake,” she said defensively.
    “The choice of father sounds like it was.”
    Waverly pinched the bridge of her nose. “I can’t deny that.”
    “You’ll have to tell Justice once you show,” he pointed out.
    She gave an embarrassed smile. “I wasn’t really sure I was going to stick around long enough for that. Don’t get me wrong, I’m so grateful for what Justice has done for me, but I can’t exactly support a baby on tips.”
    “The damned father should be supporting you.”
    “That’s not going to happen,” she said firmly. “And I’m not going to ask.”
    “What about the rest of your family? Can’t they help?”
    “Let’s just say, I’m not close to them. They won’t help. I’m on my own.”
    Jake grinned. “Not completely.”
    Waverly mulled over those words while she finished counting up the takings and put them in the safe. She felt Walker watching her, making her breath thicken in her lungs. What did he mean by that? She didn’t need help. She had to do this alone, if only to prove to herself that Adam was wrong and she was strong enough.
    She wouldn’t mind not being alone in bed, though. Just for a little while before her life became all sleepless nights and dirty diapers.
    “You really don’t have to stay,” she insisted, swiping her hands down her jeans.
    He smirked. “As if I could stay away.”
    She let her brow furrow. “What does that mean?”
    “Waverly, you know as well as I do that there’s something between us. And that something has been driving me fucking nuts all evening. Do you know how hard it is to watch you lean over the table every two seconds or watch you chew on the end of your thumb as you think?”
    Waverly peered at the end of the thumb in question. “I didn’t mean to—”
    “That’s just it.” He edged closer and pushed back a strand of hair from her face. “You never mean to. Everything about you screams sex, baby.”
    “Jake …you can’t want me. Not now you know…”
    “Sweetheart, I don’t give a damn about your past or the baby. All I know is that I need you so bad, I won’t be able to think straight until I have you. I’ve thought about nothing else since last week when you spilled that beer on me.” He lifted her chin with a thumb. “And I think you need me too.”
    She opened her mouth but nothing came out. She did, so badly. Just for one moment she wanted to be selfish and forget about what had happened in the past and what the future held for her.
    “I don’t expect anything from you,” she told him.
    He chuckled. “Well, I hope you expect something, ‘cause I intend for you to have a very, very good time.”
    How could she resist? No man had ever claimed to want