Page 128 of Alec’s Dream

“A truth bomb?” It was hard to hold back my laugh, something earlier that day I wasn’t sure I’d ever do again. The words sounded silly coming from Alec.

“Isn’t that what you call it when I give it to you straight?”

“Yeah, but if it’s bad news or something that’s gonna freak me out I might not be able to take it.”

“Honey, I’m beginning to understand that there’s nothing you can’t take. Shit comes your way and you roll with it. You absorb what you can so the kids don’t feel it and what they do feel, you work your ass off to make it better for them. So I know even if I had bad news, you’d deal.”

That felt nice.

As far as compliments went—it was a good one.

“But this isn’t bad. The truth is, I knew the first day I met you we’d end up right here. I didn’t know the journey we’d take. I just knew where the path would end. So, yeah, Macy I promised Aurora I was never leaving. Something else you should know, when all over this is settled, I’m slipping a hug ass diamond on your finger, I’m adopting Caleb and Rory, and we’re having more kids—at least two more.”

“That’s a lot of kids,” I chocked out because if I thought about anything else Alec said, I would burst into tears, and I’d cried enough for one night.

“At least two,” he repeated.

“I want to adopt Jocelyn,” I whispered.

“She’s already yours. If you want that legal, then we’ll do it when I get Rory and Caleb.”

“I want it.”

“Try to get some sleep. Your parents are sleeping over. I figure your mom will be up with the sun fussin’ in the kitchen, making sure her grandkids wake up to love in the form of pancakes. And your dad will have had time to mull over what happened, which means I need to carve out some time to talk to him alone. After they leave, the five of us are not leaving this house, we’re turning off our phones, and not answering the door.”

“Okay,” I agreed, because that sounded like the perfect plan. “My dad likes you.”

“Got that the first time he was over and he told me as much. But he proved it when he left you and the kids in my care.”

“Mom thinks you’re hot.” Alec’s deep rumbling chuckle filled my ears. “She’s not wrong.”

“We got kids in this bed with us, babe.”

I knew that tone, it was the one that sent shivers down my spine and made me tremble in all the good places.

“Never thought I’d have it all, yet here I am—three great kids and a smokin’ hot man in bed.”

“Macy—”

“What? It’s true. Not only are you smokin’ hot, strong, loyal, protective, you’re quite talented too. The whole package and all mine.”

“Did you hear me when I said we got two kids in this bed?”

“Yeah.”

“Then why are you saying that shit when I can’t do something about it?”

“Do something about it?”

Alec growled.

I smiled.

“Remind you just how talented I am.”

“Oh,” I giggled.

“Go to sleep, Macy.”