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She grinned despite her sadness. “I do, too.”
“Then, maybe if we let him cool down for a few weeks, get used to all of this, Allen will come around eventually. I know he can be a bit dramatic and hotheaded.”
“Like me,” she admitted.
“Sure, but I can also understand. If the same thing happened with Cara, I’d be pissed as hell. I might have just taken a crowbar to that guy.”
“Then you just be lucky it was just a few punches.”
He rubbed his jaw. “So you say. Your dad has a mean uppercut.”
“But it’s not the same. Tomorrow’s the day we find out the sexes. I wanted Dad there. I just want my family whole.”
Brent nodded and stroked his hand over her belly and then over the swell of her hips. “Your family is whole, at least Cara, the twins, and I are here for you. You and your mom are on better terms. Your dad will come around; I’m sure of it.”
“How can you know?”
“Because I had to live without you in my life for three days. I can’t imagine doing it for years. I don’t think Allen can go without his daughter like that either. He’ll come around to the new normal, promise.”
“And if he doesn’t? Then there won’t be any grandfathers for our kids. Your dad is Satan and mine’s MIA.” Jessica choked back a sob as a wave of cold chills and goosebumps swept over her. “What kind of a start in life is that for the kids? I… They’ll miss so much.”
Her fiancé got on his hands and knees on the bed and leaned over her. He placed a trail of feather-light kisses over her belly. “These children are the luckiest in the world. They have an amazing mother, a loving big sister, and a father who will do anything to protect them, and they’re not even here yet. You add in all their ‘aunts’ with Dana and Ashley and your mother and Harold… Eventually, I know Allen will be part of this world.”
“I miss him.”
“I know.”
She sniffled again, letting all the pain and anguish of the evening spill from her. “He said I’d ruined my life.” Jessica clutched her belly. “How could this be ruining anything when it feels so right? But then I think of the school stuff I’m giving up and maybe I won’t end up back at college and what if I’m a failure? Some, like, after school special?!”
Brent gritted his teeth. “Allen’s my best friend, but if he left you feeling like that, then he’s a huge idiot. You’re amazing, Jessica. No one could bring Cara out of her shell like you. I had no idea how into marine life she was without you. I was drowning trying to care for her, but you came along and made it all possible. I was sleepwalking through life, not caring about anything but Cara. When I was at work or anywhere else, I felt dead inside.” He kissed her lower, over the bones of her hips. His lips touching the soft cotton of her panties.
Despite her mood, Jessica felt her belly flare with warmth and her channel grow slick and wet with need.
“But…”
“No,” he said, helping her slide off her underwear, “you need to realize you’re amazing. Everything you are is a revelation, Jessica. Please, let me worship you.”
She blinked. They’d done many things together since they’d first started their affair, first fallen in love. But he hadn’t yet gone down on her. It wasn’t that he hadn’t offered, she’d just always refused. From what she figured about guys, Jessica had always assumed that they did it because they felt they had to. She never wanted to make Brent feel like he had to do anything to show he loved her. Besides, she loved everything else they did and everything she could do to him. However, now, with the sincerity brimming in his eyes, Jessica couldn’t refuse.
He wasn’t wrong. She felt so off-kilter, so afraid she was losing herself or that she’d become a failure.
If he wanted to worship her, as Brent called it, then she was going to let him.
Brent kissed the thatch of dark curls over her mons. She shivered under his ministrations, and her body quivered. It was like a current was arcing through her body, from the tips of her toes, through her core and up her arms and neck. Like a million sparks were racing over her. She was so goddamned alive.
Then Brent smirked and parted her knees for her. Licking his lips, he leaned low. She expected him to dive in right away, to lap at her body, but that’s not what he did. Instead, Brent breathed a soft exhale over her most sensitive lips. She shuddered again and moaned at the hint of heat over her labia. Her clit was throbbing and some of the fear and sadness from the last week – even from today – was leeched from her.
