My wife is fucking pregnant!
She smiled through the kiss and flattened her body against mine. Her lips were cold from the temperature but as urgent and needy as my own. I moaned, bringing my hand around to cup her jaw.
Her skin was so soft. Every inch of her was perfect to me. “I love you,” I breathed into the kiss. “I can’t believe we’re going to be parents again.”
She pulled away just far enough so that we could talk properly. But she was still very close and at that lips-almost-touching distance I had a hard time remembering my own name let alone discussing our third, and total surprise, child.
“I love you, too. It’s crazy, I know. The doctor said that although you’re less likely to get pregnant when you’re breastfeeding – we didn’t with Everleigh – it can happen. Well, obviously it can because…” She gestured to her stomach. “I think maybe it happened because we started substituting some feeds with formula.”
“It doesn’t matter how or why it happened. I’m fucking over the moon here,” I said, laughing. “How far along? When can we see the baby?” With Everleigh and Bentley I’d probably been the most excited expectant father on the planet, and I felt that same level of excitement and impatience that I did the first two times.
She looked so content as she gazed up at me. “It’s early still. I’m about seven weeks. The midwife is arranging a scan for the first week in the New Year.”
“Shit, I can’t wait.” I could count on one hand the number of times I’d cried, when Oakley left, when she came back and the birth of our two children, but I felt like blubbering again. We hadn’t planned to have more children.
Everleigh and Bentley were more than enough for me but deep down I would’ve liked to have more. I didn’t think it would happen since Oakley wanted to stop at two, and I respected that, she was the one that had to give birth after all.
“Me neither.”
“Boy,” I said. “I think it’s another boy.”
She lent into me, laughing. “Oh, you do?”
“Yeah. I don’t care either way, but I think Everleigh will be the only daughter we have. Be easier not to have to worry myself sick about penis’ chasing two of my babies.”
“You never know…” she said raising her eyebrow.
“Hell, I don’t care about that. If Bentley or the new baby is gay that’s fine with me, but I won’t worry because boys can’t get boys pregnant!”
She rolled her eyes. “You’re ridiculous.”
“You love me.”
“More than you could ever imagine.”
She stole my breath. I’d never get over the way she made me feel. It had only ever been her. All I needed was her and our kids. “Oakley…” I closed my eyes. She made me feel invincible.
“I know,” she whispered. “Want to go and tell our families there will be another addition next year?”
“Hell yeah, I do. Plus it’ll make Jasper feel less of a guy for being two down and I’m always up for that.”
Taking my hand, she looked at me in discouragement. “You’re a man-child.”
I shrugged. “You married it, baby.”
“Lucky me,” she said sarcastically and absentmindedly bit her lip.
Lucky me!
Books by Natasha Preston
COMING SOON
Our Chance
(Standalone book two in the Chance series)
Nell Paisley believes that no good can come from love. Her grandparents screwed it up, her parents screwed it up, so why would it be any different for her? She would rather keep it casual and protect her heart.
Damon Masters was happy with casual through university but a couple years on and Nell is the only woman he wants.
With the aid of Nell’s best friend, Chloe, Damon sets out to smash down the wall Nell’s built around herself and show her that not all love is doomed to end in disaster.
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Silence
(Book One in the Silence series)
Oakley Farrell stopped talking at the age of five and has remained in her own little world since. Her mum is desperate to find out what's wrong with her daughter, but does she really want to know?
Oakley's best friend, Cole has stuck by her. Their friendship is easy but as they start to become closer she is faced with a new set of issues to deal with.
Broken Silence
(Book Two in the Silence series)
Four years after Oakley, her mum, and brother fled to Australia, the trial is ready to begin. Oakley makes the decision to return to England and face the people who hurt her in person.
Her love for Cole never faded, but how will he react to seeing her again? Will they be able to put everything behind them in order to get their happy ending?
Covert
After seven friends take a trip to a secluded log cabin, a drunken night ends in the tragic and brutal murder of two of them. Mackenzie and four of her friends wake in a disorientated state to find the bodies of Josh and Courtney on the kitchen floor.
With the police determining that there was no forced entry or signs of a struggle, suspicion turns to the five survivors.