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"When Rhys showed up in class, I thought I had lost you. Again."
Her smile vanishes. "I know. Me, too."
"I never thought I could feel this way about someone. Two someones," I correct myself, nudging my baby girl inside her mom.
"You're stuck with us." She nips at my bottom lip.
"Is that a promise, MOAB Girl?" I smirk.
Instead of answering me, she moves her hand to the back of my neck and pulls me down to her. Her mouth presses against mine once, twice.
"Promise, Tight End."
EPILOGUE
Four yearslater
"Daddy, again!"Haddie squeals, strapped in her life vest, as she bobs up and down in the waves of the Pacific Ocean. We arrived in LA two days ago and are leaving tomorrow with everyone for Lilly's family vineyard to celebrate their daughter's first birthday.
Arms wrap around my neck from behind, and lips leave a scorching trail on the skin underneath my ear. "Yes, Daddy. Again," King whispers, her warm breath causing goose bumps to erupt on my neck and back, making my cock instantly stand at attention. She is not talking about me playing with our daughter in the water. I turn my head so I can properly kiss my wife.
"I like when you call me that," I murmur against her mouth.
Her eyelids are hooded, and she swipes her tongue across my bottom lip. "Maybe we should take D up on her babysitting offer."
I lean in. "Maybe we shou—"A wave of saltwater hits me in the face, and King splutters, having gotten a mouthful as well.
"Get a room!" Den exclaims, faux exasperated, from behind us. She scoops Haddie up and twirls her around.
"Faster, faster," my little girl screams with joy, and heat radiates through my chest. So much has changed in the last four years.
I didn't get to fulfill my dream of becoming a professional athlete. I got something better. I played on the team my entire time at MPU, but in the end, I majored in finance and partnered with Kiwi. Together, we startedStonebriar's Urban Chair, a custom furniture company.
After his first few contracts with the Mountain Club, more and more requests came in. Rich people talked, and soon, he couldn't keep up. His old business partner left, and one night during dinner, I blurted out, "Why don't I take over the operating side, and you focus on designing and building?"
Kiwi and King stopped eating mid-chew and stared at me like I had sprouted a third eye.
"What?" I shrugged. I was graduating that year, Kiwi needed help, and football had become a hobby long before then. I looked at King. "We've talked about it. We both want to stay here. You can finally get your degree once Haddie starts preschool, and everyone wins."
They both eyed each other, and for a second, I questioned if I had spoken English—not that I spoke any other language.
As if on cue, the biggest smile formed on King's face. "Yes!" Her head whipped around to Kiwi. "Say yes!"
"Dude, better say yes. She wasn't this enthusiastic when I asked her to marry me," I mumbled, taking another bite of my dinner to hide my smirk. The proposal was not what I had planned, but thinking back, I wouldn't have had it any other way.
"Excuse me? I was in the process of pushing a human being out of my vagina, asshole," she shoved my shoulder, laughing.
"Ewww, Roe-Roe. TMI." Kiwi wrinkled his nose.
She flipped him the bird and kept glowering at me.
"What are you thinking about? That would mean I'd finally get to see you more than just five minutes a day," Zeke piped up from the fourth chair at our table.
Kiwi held Zeke's eyes for several breaths before his gaze swiveled to King, then to me. He held out his hand in my direction. "Let's do it."
And we did.
King isabout to start her second year at MPU, and her passion has not changed. She is her professors' star student—her having attended their lectures for nearly five years now. Haddie is almost four and the sassiest little girl I've ever met. She puts her mother's smart mouth to shame.
