A/N: I am actually amazed at all the reviews and messages I receive on this story, it makes me want to get another chapter out ASAP! Thanks for all the interest in my story, it's truly wonderful!

I love the varied reactions to Eric in the last chapter, your all so quick to hate…lol. I could never hate him, but yes he was a real DICK! And I totally appreciate what everyone has to say!

Eric POV:

I was pissed, mostly with myself for being so fucking stupid but also with Felicia for putting me in a position where I am not being completely open with Sookie. I guess in all honesty I can't even blame Felicia, she is a scandalous bitch but I doubt she got pregnant on purpose after five years.

After last nights conversation with her in which I was more than clear on where I stand I was quite surprised to see Felicia stroll into my office and even more surprised when there was a knock on my door and Sookie entered.

I know the look on my face must have been something else as I glanced back and forth between the woman I most despised at the moment and the woman that had somehow all too quickly become the most important person in the world to me.

"Soo…I mean Suzannah, how can I help you today?"

I wanted to kick myself in the ass for almost calling her Sookie, I knew Felicia would most likely never remember her if she met her later on but her name is very original and if for some reason she ever came to know of our involvement I didn't want her to be able to connect our student/professor relationship. She would use it to demean Sookie in any way possible and I didn't want that.

"You can't, Sorry to interrupt I was just dropping off the assignment due today. I was waiting outside to see you but I have some where to be now, so I thought I'd…make my presence known…I mean to hand this in on time."

'Make her presence known' I knew exactly what that meant, she had heard every word, she knew and wanted me to know that she knew. Fuck!

I tried with everything I had to will her to look at me, even if it was for just a moment. I wanted her to see how sorry I was, I didn't want her to find out this way. I had told myself after last night that I never wanted to see that look in her eyes again, she was hurt, I had hurt her.

I reached out taking her assignment from her hoping she would finally look at me, she did but seemed to be looking at my neck or lower face, successfully avoiding eye contact.

"Have a nice weekend, Professor Northman…." Ah…and there it is again. Sookie's own none too subtle way of telling me to go fuck myself for the weekend…at least.

Previous week

Things had been running exceptionally smoothly between Sookie and I, the last five weeks had been like heaven on earth to me. We had been spending much more time together than I honestly felt would be possible since we wanted to keep this between us for now.

It seems that every time we are together things always become physical fairly quickly, it's something I both love and hate. I love it because I get to have the best and most intimate sex I've ever experienced constantly but I hate it because I don't want Sookie to ever feel that the sex is all this is about.

Coming here and meeting her is the best thing that's ever happened to me, my feelings haven't changed for her not in the least. When I am with her I feel like there is nothing and no one else that exists.

I am a 33 year old man that feels like a fucking teenager when she is anywhere near me and I fucking love it!

My phone rang and I was expecting a call from Sookie so I quickly answered it without even glancing at the call display.

"Hey"

"Eric? Well I don't think I have ever heard you use such a sweet tone with me, tell me, does that mean you are missing me?" Fucking Felicia.

"What the fuck do you want, Felicia? You should only be going through my lawyer to contact me."

"Oh lighten up Eric, I refuse to talk to Pam and besides I thought you may want to know first hand that I am pregnant again."

"What the fuck are you telling me for?"

"Well that would be because you are the father." What the fuck? Is she fucking kidding me.

"Felicia, there had to be at least a dozen fucking donors in the last while we were together if I were to base my opinion of that on the last time I saw you."

"Do you really feel the need to be so insulting, Eric?"

"Do you really feel the need to be so fucking stupid, Felicia?" I mocked.

"Look I don't have time for your bullshit, Eric. I'm pregnant and you need to accept that…"

"Why did you wait so long to say something?"

"I wanted to wait to make sure I didn't lose this one." I felt like a piece of shit, she was a bitch and was probably only bringing up that bullshit to make me feel bad and it was no doubt still a lie.

I told her straight out that I wanted nothing to do with her and that she would have to supply a paternity test before I would acknowledge anything. I also stated very clearly that the divorce WILL be going through with or without a baby. Part of me even doubted that there was a baby but either way, I would know the truth before she got another dime.

I spent the next two days having an inner fucking debate with myself. I needed to talk to Sookie, I needed to tell her about this shit. I knew that, I knew it all too fucking well but I was afraid she'd leave me. It's not like we've been together long, hell we hadn't even discussed just what it is we are to each other.

Monday evening Sookie was the last to see me during my office hours and she shut and locked the door behind her as she entered. I eyed her suspiciously knowing she was up to something. I wasn't sure what the hell I thought about anything happening here on campus. I'm sure it would be a bad idea no matter what but she made quick work of trying to convince me otherwise.

I hadn't moved from my chair and she sashayed her ass over to me and didn't hesitate to climb in to my lap and grind her hot little lady bits into my all too quickly growing erection. Her tongue shot out of her mouth and she licked her way up my neck.

Fuck she was hot! I didn't waste anytime, my hands quickly set about removing her shirt and my mouth found her pert nipples nibbling through the thin fabric of her yellow bra.

We were grinding against each other and I knew that any moment I would have no choice but to bend her over my fucking desk and take her, I was already so close to blowing my load. I have never known a woman that has been able to make me cum in my pants before now, but I sure as hell knew that Sookie was more than capable of it.

The moment I looked into her eyes, the very ones that held so much adoration, affection, want, respect and worst of all TRUST. I couldn't continue, not like this. I needed to show her the respect she deserves, the trust she deserves and prove that I deserved the same in return.

That just wasn't the case right now, not while I kept such an important fact from her, I tried to rationalize that fact by telling myself that Felicia was a lying bitch and that I shouldn't have to potentially cause a problem between us over her lies.

Sookie immediately sensed that something was wrong no doubt because as much I could read her so well at this point, she could read me just as easily.

I was a selfish son-of-a-bitch and was in no way prepared to let her go just yet. It would crush me if she said goodbye and I'd fucking kill Felicia if Sookie left me over anything that her skank ass had any involvement in.

So I quite suddenly had so much work to catch up on that I could no longer keep our prior engagement. Sookie was supposed to spend the night with me tonight and I all but brushed her off.

Oh and did I mention that when I hurt her it was completely visible in her beautiful eyes that glazed over and shimmered in the light as she held back the tears that wanted to fall in what she probably saw as rejection. Yeah, like I said I'm an asshole.

She was quick to throw her shirt back on and leave and I once again I berated myself because I was so many things right now; a selfish, dishonest son-of-a-bitch, an asshole, a coward and a fucking prick that in now way deserved a woman like Sookie, not by a long shot.

I wanted to call her, to go to her or make her come to me and I wanted to come clean, I really did but the damn selfish coward in me was not having that tonight and the longer I waited the harder it got to find a way to tell her.

I was miserable all week and I know it showed in my demeanor, everyday I argued with myself and everyday the coward came out on top.

The final straw had been when Felicia had gone against what I fucking told her, I didn't want to hear from her until a paternity test proved me to be the father. She had called four god damn times while I took Sookie on my kitchen counter, all I wanted was to hold her close to me after and I was doing just that for about two seconds until she fucking called again.

I was so pissed that what I had done, the way I had left her, walked away to deal with that bitch hadn't even caught up to me until after Sookie had left me, when she had yelled at me I stood there shocked by the words that left her mouth. I had been 'fed and fucked' is that what she thought of me? That I could ever think that way about the woman I love…whoa…love? Where the hell had that come from? How do you love someone after less than two months together, and not even really together at that.

I was so fucked, here I had kept something from her afraid that she would leave me and instead she leaves me because of the ass I am when I am pissed off.

Felicia and I had argued and gotten nowhere over the course of a twenty minute period before I finally realised that this was never going to end, she was never going to give up until we knew the paternity of the baby and I was done dealing with her.

I let her go telling her I would call her back after I seen Sookie off, of course I didn't quite put it that way. It was none of her concern who I had here and I knew that using the term 'them' would make her think I had a group here and not focus on one individual I didn't need her trying even harder to hold up the divorce because I was involved with someone.

I didn't call her right back, once I got over the shock of Sookie's words I called Pam and told her what was now going on and that if Felicia continued to harass me I wanted a restraining order taken out against her.

Telling Pam me feel like an even bigger ass after not confiding in Sookie as well. Pam was my lawyer and needed to be kept in the loop, I hadn't told her earlier in the week because I wasn't telling my friend, Pam, only my lawyer ,Pam.

That rationale still didn't make me feel any better and it was in that moment that I had decided that I could do this, I could trust Sookie not to walk away from me, I had to believe in that, believe in her.

I wasn't normally one to take any personal time off of work but I wanted to do something special for Sookie so I spent the day Friday running around making arrangements for us to stay at a quaint little B&B in New Port RI. Called Ivy Lodge, it was two hours away but looked to be worth the drive.

I had booked The Victoria room, it's supposed to be the most requested consisting of a king four poster bed, fireplace, private bath with shower and jacuzzi tub. I made arrangements for a few floral arrangements to be set up in the room as well as some wine and finger foods to snack on the first little while that we were there. I wanted to keep her to myself in our room, away from all the bullshit here.

I was entirely too nervous about the whole idea, should I be taking Sookie so far away when I intend to open up to her, telling her everything including the newest shit involving Felicia? Or should I be telling her this while at home, allowing her the chance to leave if she were to decide to.

Again the selfish part of me won out and I decided that I would take her to New Port, I wanted everything to be perfect for us and I hoped that even if she needed a little space having her away from home might allow for her to take some time to herself but in the end return to our room where we could talk.

Present day-Felicia & Eric after Sookie walked out

"Felicia, you need to go the fuck home. Do not come back here, do not call me, do not contact me in any way. My lawyer will be dealing with this situation and letting me know when the tests can be done." I snapped.

I was seething, there was almost no chance that Sookie would be accompanying me to New Port now and once again I had hurt her.

I literally had to hold myself in place, will myself to not leave this chair and wrap my fingers around her fucking throat. Felicia actually had the nerve to stand there looking as though she were about to cry, if I hadn't known her so fucking well I might have believed it but she didn't have it in her.

I on the other hand felt like my heart had just been torn from my chest and although I had only shed a few tears in my adult life -those being when I said goodbye to mother- had the strangest of sensations taking place in the backs of my eyes and knew immediately that Sookie was all too capable of bringing me to my knees…

Links on profile for those who wish to view Eric and Sookie's would be room at Ivy Lodge as well as the beautiful foyer to the lodge. It is an actual lodge and these are actually pictures from said lodge.

A/N: All characters belong to Charlaine Harris.