Total pages in book: 96
Estimated words: 90266 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 451(@200wpm)___ 361(@250wpm)___ 301(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 90266 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 451(@200wpm)___ 361(@250wpm)___ 301(@300wpm)
When I finally let her up for air, I grinned at the dazed expression on her face. I loved that I could do that to her—make her forget everyone and everything except what I made her feel. She certainly did that to me often enough.
Winter’s passion-glazed eyes began to clear, and she searched my face as she took a deep breath. “Why?”
“Why?” I parroted. Was she asking me why I thought Lincoln was a jackass? After I’d just kissed the hell out of her? If that was the case, then I wasn’t doing my job right.
She cleared her throat and glanced away for a second, but her eyes came right back to meet mine, full of determination. It was sexy as hell to see my sweet wife exhibiting courage and showing that she had an admirable backbone.
“Why me? Why do you want to stay married? And when did you arbitrarily make that decision for me?”
I smiled, and she shook her head, pushing against my chest and trying to shove me away. I didn’t budge an inch. “Oh no, don’t go trying to distract me with your beautiful, megawatt smile, mister.”
Damn, she was adorable. “I knew the second I saw those gorgeous blue eyes gazing up at me that you were mine. I keep and protect what’s mine. That means you aren’t going anywhere. You’re staying. I’m keeping you. Getting married just gave me another way to make sure it happened. Knocking you up helps with that too, but the truth is, I want to see you round with our baby. The idea is sexy as fuck to me, and it makes me want to take you again, right here against the wall, and up our chances.”
Winter had stopped struggling as soon as I spoke, and her mouth had slowly formed a cute little O.
When she said nothing for a full minute, my cheeks flushed a little. Had I said too much?
“You really do only talk to me, don’t you?” she asked suddenly.
I laughed and hugged her close. “Like I said…”
Winter chuckled, but something in her expression wasn’t sitting right with me. “Are you unhappy with what I’ve said?”
She blinked a few times, her eyes filling with confusion. “What? Why would any of the sweet things you’ve said upset me?”
I shrugged. What the fuck did I know about women?
A sigh slipped from her lips, and she rested her head on my chest, her ear directly over my heart. “I’m just wondering if you’ll wake up tomorrow and regret tying yourself to someone you don’t love.”
Well, shit. I really was a bumbling idiot.
With one finger, I raised Winter’s chin so that our eyes met. “Sugar, when I said I knew you were mine, I meant...what I should have said was, from the very first moment, I knew I loved you.”
Winter gasped, and I kissed her softly as I held her head to my chest. “It beats for you, Winter. It races at the feel of your touch, it pounds with excitement when you’re near, and it is currently frozen in fear.”
Her eyes had become glassy, and she sniffed, then frowned when she absorbed the last of my words. “Fear? What do you have to be afraid of?”
Inhaling slow and deep, I opened myself up to Winter completely, praying that she wouldn’t stomp on my heart. “I’m afraid you don’t feel the same way.”
Wide blue eyes stared at me in shock, then she threw her arms around me and planted her lips on top of mine. The kiss was unexpected, and I stumbled back a few steps before twisting so I fell against the brick wall. Before I could take it further, she pulled back and smiled so brightly that she made the sun look dim. “I love you, too!”
“Thank fuck,” I muttered before taking her mouth in another ravishing kiss, one that had me seconds away from tearing off both our clothes and sealing our love with my come in her pussy. There was just enough blood left in my brain to register we were out in the open, and no one got to see my wife naked but me.
Growling with impatience, I tore my mouth away and hoisted Winter up to throw her over my shoulder. Then I stomped through the back door on a mission.
Winter laughed and tugged on the back of my shirt. “Where are we going, crazy man?”
“Somewhere I can take advantage of my wife’s sexy body and make sure I’ve got a bun growing in her oven.”
I passed the bar as I explained this to Winter, and Joe’s bushy eyebrows got lost in his hairline. Then he started laughing and shook his head. “You boys are just like your dad.”
He had a point. Once I found the right woman, I’d made her mine before she knew what was happening. Of course, my parents hadn’t met because of a crazy scheme. Then again...my mom’s crazy plan turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me.