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“Oh, fuck, thank Christ,” I rushed out as my head dropped on her chest.
While I’d been doing my best to convince myself that I’d respect whatever choice that she ended up making, it was a good thing that I was already sitting down because I felt fucking weak with relief. Though not planned for this stage in my life, I’d always known that I wanted kids one day. Faced with Alex’s other options, I was okay with one day being right now.
I felt her fingers slide through the back of my hair. “Did you really think that I wasn’t going to keep it?”
Lifting my head to look at her, I said, “I honestly had no idea where your mind was on this, Alex. While I understand that the decision is ultimately yours, I want this baby. I want you both in a way that you’ll probably never grasp.”
“I’m sorry,” she murmured. “I probably should have made that clear from the beginning.”
“As long as we’re both clear on it now, I’m good,” I assured her. “I just…I think we need to clear up one more thing before…before we tackle everything else.”
Her hands dropped from my neck as she looked wary again. “What’s that?”
“No more pushing me away, Alex,” I demanded. “No more hot and cold from you. I can handle whatever mood swings this pregnancy might put you through, but no more pushing me away. No more doubts or confusion about what we are or what we’re doing.” I cupped her face again. “Okay?”
To my immense relief, she nodded. “No more pushing you away.”
“No more doubt about how I feel about you, either,” I added. “While it might sound like a douchebag line, I’ve never felt like this about anyone, Alex. For whatever reason, we hadn’t been meant to be more than just friends before now, and I’m not going to wrack my brain trying to understand why. All I know is that I want to be with you now, and I meant what I’d said, Alex. I love you.”
“I might love you, too,” she replied softly, and while some people would have gotten their feelings hurt by her response, I appreciated her honesty. It meant that Alex wasn’t going to ever lie to me about her feelings, and if she married me, it was going to be because she wanted to and not because of the baby.
“Yeah?”
She nodded. “Yeah.”
Chapter 22
The peace that calms us.
Hunter~
Ileaned forward, then placed a kiss on Alexandria’s collar bone. She tasted and smelled familiar, and if it weren’t for the fact that it was already dark, I’d sit here for another few hours just holding her in my arms.
When Kenzlee had called me to tell me that Alexandria was a mess and doubted what I felt for her, it’d been a no-brainer to hunt her down and clarify this shit, once and for all. While Kenzlee had been honest about feeling like she’d been betraying Alex’s confidences by calling me, Kenz would never know how grateful I’d always be for her phone call. I wasn’t ashamed to admit that I needed all the help that I could get with this situation, and that was even without the issue of the baby.
My hands tightened on her hips as my lips trailed up her neck. “Fuck, you feel good in my arms,” I muttered against her skin. “I love how I have permission to touch you like this.”
“I like being in your arms,” she confessed on a breathy moan.
“Considering that I plan on keeping you in them for the rest of your life, that’s a good thing,” I said, grinning at how true that was.
Alex’s hands slid up the back of my neck again. “Hunter…” she hummed quietly.
I could already feel my dick getting hard underneath her. “Tell me what you need, baby.”
“We can’t,” she protested weakly. “We’re out in public.”
“Ask me if I give a fuck,” I replied as my left hand came up to capture her tit in my palm. “If I’m ever going to get arrested, let it be for this.”
Alexandria chuckled. “Hunter, I need you to focus.”
I pulled back to look up at her, and that beautiful face was staring at me like she didn’t want me to stop. “Oh, I’m focused,” I assured her. “I’ve never been more focused on something in my life.”
With those ice-colored eyes staring at me like I was her whole fucking world, Alexandria said, “I’m sorry, Hunter. I’m sorry that I’ve been making this thing between us harder than it needed to be.”
My hand let go of her tit, then slid upward until it gripped the back of her neck. “Never apologize to me, Alexandria,” I told her. “I’m strong enough to handle whatever you throw my way, baby.”
“That doesn’t mean that you don’t deserve an apology,” she argued. “I never want to be the kind of person that takes advantage of someone else.”
