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“Excuse me?” She put her hands on her hips. “Maybe you forgot he asked me three years ago, and I turned him down then.”
“Things change.” He glanced at her swollen belly, and her heart sank. “Daniel still loves you. He’s proven that chasing after you. Maybe it’s time you give in.”
“I’ll thank you not to make decisions for my life. Feel better.”
She left the room and kept walking until she reached her car outside and drove back home. Let them comfort each other. She needed a break and sleep. When she’d called in to work to tell her boss she had a family emergency and should be in by ten, then was lying in bed drifting off to sleep, did the full impact of Jax’s proposal hit her. He had asked
her to marry him, and she’d blown it off like she received offers every day of the week!
* * * *
“Crud, I forgot the dressing,” Tae said as she set the huge bowl of tossed salad on the dining room table next to the platter of pulled beef.
Daniel pushed his chair back and stood. “I’ll get it.”
Jax made a gagging noise, and Daniel glared at him. Jax raised his eyebrows. “Is there a problem?”
“Yeah, you,” Daniel snapped. “Why are you here?”
Jax surged to his feet. “Why are you here? Don’t you have a wife?”
Daniel didn’t even redden this time around. Tae guessed he was done being shamed. “The only reason you’re hanging around her is because you’ve always wanted what’s mine.”
“When the fuck did she become yours?” Jax growled back.
“Boys!” Tae had gone to get the dressing herself and slammed it down on the table. “Both of you are going to be outside hungry in a minute. Try me.”
They lowered their gazes to the table in unison and muttered their apologies. Tae stroked her belly. She hadn’t meant for this to happen, her seeing both of them almost nightly, both running errands for her, shopping with her. Jax even rubbed her feet, but neither of the men were willing to give an inch. At least they hadn’t come to blows again, but she had to break up arguments too often.
Jax pulled out a chair for her. “Here. Sit down. Let me finish whatever else you need done.”
She took him up on the offer of a seat. Her feet ached. “I’m done. We have everything we need. I just don’t want you two fighting anymore tonight.” Tears filled her eyes, and she blinked them away, annoyed. They appeared too often lately. “Can you do that for me?”
“Of course, baby,” Jax said. Before she realized what he would do, he kissed her lips. He drew back, a look of surprise on his face and glanced at Daniel. She did as well, but her ex-boyfriend’s face held no expression.
“No more fighting tonight,” Daniel said.
Tae rubbed a twinge in her side and then began serving the three of them. Daniel reached across the table and relieved her of the serving spoon. While he piled their plates with food, Jax poured himself and Daniel a glass of wine and her a glass of grape juice. She raised her glass to take a sip, watching them over the rim. Things had begun to change. She still loved Daniel without a doubt, but as she turned her gaze to Jax, she couldn’t deny wanting to keep him a part of her life. What did it mean? Was it just because of their connection with the baby?
She dismissed thoughts of the two men and tucked into her food. When they were done, Daniel sent her to the living room to relax, and the two men cleared the table and stacked dishes into the dishwasher. Tae strained her ears to catch whether they fought in the kitchen, but she couldn’t hear anything. A short while later, Jax walked into the living room and sat at the foot of the couch and pulled her feet into his lap. He removed her thick socks from her feet since she tended to walk around the apartment in them rather than shoes. Daniel joined them sitting at the head of the couch, and he drew her head onto his lap. Jax glared at him, but he didn’t say anything.
“Mm, that feels good,” she murmured as Jax began massaging her feet. Both men shifted on the chair, and Tae’s heel brushed something hard. She raised an eyebrow at Jax, and he winked, not sorry in the least. Deciding to ignore his physical response to her moan, she turned her attention to the TV and flipped channels, but nothing distracted her from the tingles Jax’s strong hands sent to her nether regions.
When she landed on the health channel, she was reminded of Jax’s injury. He was mostly better now with time passed, but sometimes she saw how stiff his shoulder seemed. She drew her feet away from him. “That’s enough.”
He looked up. “Did I hurt you?”
“No.” She sat up, and both men moved closer to her while she sat in the middle of the couch. Sighing, she shook her head. Jax took her hand in his and held it. With Jax around, Daniel never tried to touch her intimately, but she often felt his gaze on her, and she’d noticed as much as with Jax the tent in his pants. The worse part of all of this was her own horniness. Being pregnant seemed to have made her desires skyrocket, but so far she hadn’t given into either man. She used her own fingers to get herself off. That did not do much when two hard, male thighs bumped hers on both sides. Longing made her panties damp. Jax escalated the problem by caressing the inside of her wrist with his thumb. The bastard played dirty.
Tae drew her feet beneath her and rubbed her belly. She yawned, her eyelids drooping. Next week, she would be twenty weeks, and she had a doctor appointment to see what the sex of her baby was. She bit her lip.
“My appointment next week…”
“I’m going.”
“I’m going.”
She tensed. Both men had spoken at the same time. She groaned and rubbed her forehead. Somehow up until now she’d avoided having them both at the appointments at the same time. Jax attended more often than not because his schedule was flexible, and Daniel hadn’t pushed.
