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“I know it’s old-fashioned, but I can get you something different.”
“Don’t you dare, Dante Moreno,” I say, clutching the ring to my chest. “I love it, and because it was your mom’s, it makes it even more special. We can give it to our daughter someday.” I gently stroke my stomach. It’s relatively flat now and I’m trying to imagine how it will look in several months when I’ll be showing.
“Oh God, we can’t have a daughter. Do you really want another Bianca?” he teases. I love Bianca, but the girl is wild and stubborn as a mule.
“Well, maybe a boy wouldn’t be so bad,” I say with a laugh.
Lying here in this hospital bed, my body battered and broken, I’ve never felt so overjoyed. I didn’t fall in love with Dante Moreno in an instant. It was a series of moments over the years. With each one, he collected little pieces of my heart until he was the holder of all of it, and I know he’ll keep those pieces safe for the rest of my life.
EPILOGUE
Violet
We’re not getting our wish for a baby boy. We’re also not getting a baby girl. No, we’re getting both. Let me just say, when birth control fails, it fails spectacularly.
Thank God I’m doing this with Dante, who’s as cool as a cucumber, because I am freaking the hell out. Every time the hormones overtake me and I cry about how I’m not going to be able to do it, that I’m going to be a horrible mother, he just holds me and lets me cry while whispering encouragements in my ear.
While I’m thrilled, he seems even more excited about the prospect of twins than I am. As soon as the doctor gave us the news, Dante went out and started buying two of everything. Cribs, car seats, strollers, highchairs. Everything. They’re starting to overtake the house. He’s been working on the nursery nonstop the past two weeks, and he hasn’t let me in to look at it yet. It’s taken all my willpower not to peek when he isn’t around.
I spend most of my days working in our home office for Moreno Construction. With everything that happened with Tyler coming to light, especially the fact that three separate girls had complained to the University and they’d done nothing, the school was more than happy to let me withdraw without penalty. They said when I was ready to come back, they’d have a place for me.
I’m not sure that will ever happen with the twins coming. Besides, I’m quite happy working with my husband. School had always been a placeholder for me until I found something that I wanted to do, and I know I’ve found it.
Dante and I were married three months to the day from when I was released from the hospital. He told me I could have any type of wedding that I wanted. He was even willing to hold off until after the twins were born, but the frown on his face when he said that just made me laugh. In the end, I opted for a small, intimate ceremony with just our closest family and friends in our backyard.
It was like a fairy tale with all the lights strung up and lanterns hanging everywhere. Bianca made sure flowers were overflowing from every surface. Even Jake, Adrian, and a few of the other guys pitched in and built a gazebo for us to use as a kind of altar. And no, my parents weren’t there. Dante encouraged me to reach out to them, so I sent them an invitation, but when we received no response I wasn’t surprised.
I’ve resigned myself that they aren’t going to be a part of my life, and somehow finally accepting that has made me feel freer than I’ve been in years.
I squirm in our large king-size bed, trying to get comfortable, but the eight-month twin baby belly is no joke.
“You okay, baby?” a sleepy voice says behind me.
“Yeah, I just can’t get comfortable, as usual.” I feel him scooch closer behind me until the front of his body presses against my back. I immediately feel his hard cock poking my buttocks, which causes my legs to clench together and my pussy to flood in anticipation.
I thought I was hot for Dante before. It’s nothing compared to what the pregnancy hormones have done to me.
“Good morning,” he says while nuzzling that spot on my neck that he knows drives me crazy.
“It’ll be a much better morning if you put that thing inside me.”
He lets out a chuckle and doesn’t stop rubbing his day-old beard growth against the sensitive skin of my neck. “Is my girl feeling needy this morning?” He cups my breast with his hand and I cry out. Not only have my breasts grown the past few months, much to my delight, but they’re also incredibly sensitive. One night he played with them for so long I had an orgasm with no other kind of stimulation. I didn’t even know that was possible.
“Yes, I need you.” I gasp.
His other hand glides over my belly, and he stops to give it a little affectionate rub. That’s one more thing to add to the long list of things I love about Dante. He always takes the time to show the babies affection, even before they’re born.
Once he’s done with my stomach, his hand continues down until it reaches the apex of my thighs. I let out a moan and lift my right leg, sliding it back over his own, to allow him better access.
“You’re drenched. Is all this for me?”
“Always,” I groan.
“That’s right, this belongs to me.” I can feel his hips shift behind me and suddenly the head of his cock is at my entrance. I try to move my hips back to take him in, but he holds me steady. “Be a good girl and let me take care of you.”
He slowly enters me from behind, inch my agonizing inch. By the time he’s fully seated inside me, I’m desperate for him to move.
“Please. I need you,” I beg.
