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“Get a room!” Charlie shouts, and I giggle when Tate lifts his middle finger over his shoulder.
“When did you get back?”
I toy with the collar of his work shirt, needing to touch him. There’s a grease stain I’ll need to pre-treat before putting it in the wash.
“A little while ago. I wanted to surprise you.”
“Best surprise,” he says and tips my face up to meet his kiss, this one slower, deeper. Perfect.
Not able to wait any longer because my heart feels like it’s about to explode, I say, “I brought you something. It’s in the front seat.”
His handsome face tilts and those blue eyes seem bluer as they reflect the cloudless sky above.
“You brought me a gift?”
I nod.
He goes to the passenger side and leans in through the open window to retrieve the wrapped box, then comes back to me.
Giving it a small shake, he asks, “A watch?”
I bite my lip and shake my head no.
His brow furrows with curiosity as he once again gently rattles the contents inside the box, trying to figure out what I got him, and I can’t stand it anymore. He does this at Christmas, too. He likes to take his time unwrapping every present, while I love to dive right in, rip the paper to shreds, and get to the good stuff.
“Oh my god. You’re killing me. Just open it.”
He laughs as he slips a finger under the tape on one side, then the other side, and removes the thick metallic foil from around the box.
“You bought me jewelry?”
The only jewelry Tate wears is his wedding ring and the new watch I gave him last Christmas. There’s a men’s leather cord bracelet I’ve been eyeing for his next birthday that I think he’d like.
“Nope.”
When he carefully lifts the top of the box off and sees the white plastic stick inside, his wide eyes lift to my tear-glossed ones. He knows what that stick represents.
A tidal wave of love radiates off him and slams into me with the force of a wrecking ball.
“You serious?”
I nod my head, too choked up to utter the word yes.
“Holy shit!Holy shit!I’m gonna be a daddy!”
He drops to his knees on the tarmac and peppers kisses all over my stomach, mumbling words of love to our unborn child, the sweetness of it causing the gathered tears to finally fall and stream down my cheeks.
I yelp when he suddenly stands and hooks his hands under my arms, lifting me high in the air. I brace on his shoulders, and we cry our happiness together. Tate and I have been trying for over a year to start a family, and it’s finally happening.
He lowers me until I can bind my legs around his waist and curl my arms around his neck.
“I love you, Mrs. Peyton Kingston.”
“Not as much as I love you.”
ABOUT JENNILYNN
Jennilynn Wyer is a multi-award-winning romance author (Rudy Award winner for Romantic Suspense, HOLT Medallion Award winner, four-time Contemporary Romance Writers Stiletto Finalist, three-time HOLT Medallion Award Finalist, Carolyn Reader's Choice Award Finalist) and an international Amazon best-selling author of romantic fiction. She writes steamy, New Adult romances as well as dark reverse harem romances. She also pens YA romance under the pen name JL Wyer.
