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She’s wearing a simple peach-colored dress that falls to her knees. The only jewelry she has on is the wedding ring that I had made from the most expensive emerald available and the necklace I gave her when we were thirteen.
She’s never removed it since the day we got engaged.
And that box? She replaced those depressing pictures with new ones. Our wedding picture, her birthday picture, where we celebrated with all our friends and I kissed her senseless. There’s also our first family picture with Conrad, and last but not least, the ultrasound of the upcoming member of the Sterling family.
Nicole still doesn’t show, but she glows with the pregnancy. She’s so beautiful, it fucking hurts to look at her sometimes.
“You might want to wipe that drool, Bug.” Astrid’s voice, as mocking as it is, doesn’t break my fixation on the woman slowly approaching us.
Mywoman.
“Might want to practice what you preach, Bugger.”
“Me?”
“Your kids would testify to the unhealthy amount of PDA they witness on a daily basis.”
“That’s called giving a positive parental example.”
“Obviously. With tongues!”
“You have no right to judge when you look like you’re going to piss yourself by just looking at her.”
“I’m just thinking about how I will fuck her when all of you people are ruining my Sunday.”
“Gross.” She stands, shaking her head. “I’m going to find my man.”
“Don’t you dare shag in my house,” I warn and she just laughs, waving me off.
It’s my turn to stand up, the urge to close the distance between me and Nicole is like a fucking need.
I really should’ve had her for my own this weekend.
And every other weekend.
Upon seeing me, Conrad slips his hand from his mother’s and runs to me with the preciseness of a monkey on crack. His entire focus is on his legs, completely and utterly fascinated that the things actually work.
He trips and falls, but he giggles as if the whole ordeal is a comedy show, then he continues running.
I crouch and open my arms and he crashes straight between them. “Daddy!”
“Hey there, buddy.” My fingers ruffle his light hair and he giggles like a ball of sunshine.
I never thought I would become a father, not when my own was a scum who only fathered his dick. But the moment Conrad was born and the midwife placed him in my arms, I knew I would die for him. No questions asked.
When Nicole and I first got married, I admit to wanting children only to stake a claim on my wife, but that’s changed since I became a father.
And I have the woman standing in front of me to thank for that.
She’s the one who taught me that not all fathers are the same. That just because mine was the worst, doesn’t mean I’ll be like him.
Holding Conrad with one hand, I stand up and grab Nicole by the waist with the other, pulling her against me. “How are you feeling?”
“A little hungry.”
“Hold on a second while I beat Levi for not grilling the meat fast enough.”
She laughs and the sound is so contagious that I smile back.
