Free Reckless by R.M. Martinez Page B

in his life. But he just couldn’t get Brianna out of his head. She was having his child and she wouldn’t even talk to him. It was becoming an obsession. He just wanted a taste of her, and now he was going through withdraws. She’d quickly become an addiction. She was bad for him. She didn’t fit into his life, but she was pregnant and he couldn’t help but to wonder if I was a sign.
                  “Lucian!” Kelsey answered the door and threw her arms around him.
                  “Hey Lucian.” Amira gave him a sweet smile. Her smile faltered when she saw Samantha behind him.
                  “I need to talk to you alone.” He told Kelsey and ushered her toward the back of the apartment.
                  When they entered her bedroom, he closed the door and locked it. He definitely didn’t want Samantha walking in on this. He placed her iPod into the docking station and started playing music, then he spoke softly to his sister.
                  “Have you heard from Brianna?” he asked.
                  Kelsey eyeballed him suspiciously, but nodded. “Yeah. We made plans for dinner next weekend. Why?”
                  “Don’t get pissed. As a matter of fact, don’t react at all to this.” He warned her.
                  “Okay.” She sat in her chair and stared up at him with her big baby blue eyes and innocent little face. “Lay it on me, big bro. What’s going on between you two? I’ve noticed something’s amiss since the day after I got back from Mexico.”
                  He rubbed the back of his neck and glanced around the room nervously before letting out a long breath. “I got her pregnant.” He said.
                  “What!” Kelsey screamed and jumped out of the chair.
                  “It’s a long story, Kels.” He told her.
                  “Obviously.” She frowned.
    It took her a moment to calm down enough to be rational. It was hard not to hug her when she was so obviously excited to be an aunt, since she was jumping up and down singing, “I’m going to have a new niece or nephew to spoil.”
    “She won’t talk to me. She won’t include me. She’s pushed me out.” He sighed.
    “Because of Sam.” It wasn’t a question, but he nodded anyway. “Tell me the whole story, minus the sex. I don’t need to hear about how this baby was conceived. Just the story around it. And what about Sam? Does she know?”
    “Sam doesn’t know.” He said.
    “She’s going to kill you! And Bree!” she gasped. “What are you going to do? Are you going to go for rights or just send her money? Oh God! Do you think she did it just for the money? I never took her as a gold digger.  I mean, she seems genuinely mad at you…..”
    Kelsey was babbling. That meant she was just as nervous as he was. And he loved her for how much she cared, he just didn’t have time for it.
    “Kels, sweetheart, I need your help.” He said. She glanced up at him and nodded. “I need you to not tell her that I’m coming to dinner with you next weekend. As a matter of fact, avoid her until then. I don’t need you spilling that you know anything about this.”
    “Fine.” She pouted. “But I’m so going baby shopping tomorrow.”
    He couldn’t help the smile that spread across his face. He couldn’t wait to buy things for this baby. His baby. His first born.
    “You like her, don’t you?” Kelsey asked.
    “I do.” He admitted.
    “But you’re still going to marry Sam.” She frowned.
    “I love Sam.” He said.
    “How long have you been seeing Bree behind her back?” she asked, making him cringe a little.
    “I paid her twenty five thousand dollars to spend the week with me.” He told her. He watched the shock spread over her until her eyes looked like they were going to bulge from her head. “It was a challenge, and you know that I never back down