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He focused on Mack. “I’m sorry for how I’ve been to you. But you gotta know everything you just said was complete shite. Here I was trying to prove I was better than you, like it meant I was his son somehow.”
He shook his head, pain tightening his gut as Mack frowned. “But every step of the way, you’ve proved you’re a better man than me. You’re the best man I’ve ever met.” Mack took a step back at that, but Liam followed him, getting right up in front of him. “Seems the only place I could admit that was the bedroom. But you took me as I am. It’s just one of the reasons I love you.”
Then he kissed Mack in front of God, his dad, and anyone who happened to be passing by.
His father made a disgusted noise and turned around. “When you’re done with these juvenile stunts, call me office.” He headed for the door.
“This is all I’ve got to say to ya.” Liam gave his dad the middle finger, never taking his eyes off Mackenzie. Then he intertwined his fingers with Mack’s and pulled him back toward Calla on the bed.
Calla had tears in her eyes.
Liam’s neck heated but he didn’t let go of Mack’s hand. “So. If you didn’t hear, I’m not interested in ever findin’ out which one of us donated to make the little sprout.”
Calla laughed and this time when she reached for their hands and put them to her belly, Mack didn’t pull away. The look on his face was priceless, Liam wished he had a camera to capture it. It was full of shock and awe while he also looked a little like he was about to pass out.
“Family,” Mack finally whispered, echoing Calla’s earlier sentiment. He squeezed both their hands and bowed his head to Calla’s stomach.
Epilogue
MACK
“Is the blindfold really necessary?” Calla asked, tilting her head toward Mack. He was driving and he frowned her way. Liam reached up from the back seat and waved his hand right in front of her face, but she didn’t react. Mack smiled.
“You bet your arse it’s necessary. What’s the point of a grand gesture if it isn’t grand?”
Mack pulled onto the long gravel driveway and Calla grabbed for the door to steady herself when the truck started bouncing up and down.
“Whoa,” she said. “So we’re officially somewhere off the beaten path.”
Mack glanced in the rearview mirror and saw Liam looking smug as fuck. Shit, he’d never hear the end of how this was Liam’s great idea. Rest of his life, the Irish wanker would brag about how he knew just how to make all Calla’s dreams come true.
But then Mack smiled. After all, it was his name going on the paperwork.
Mack slowed the truck down as they came up to the house.
“Wait’s almost over,” Mack said. He parked in front of the house and then Liam got out of the truck and opened Mel’s door for her.
“Can I take the blindfold off now?”
“Not yet,” Liam said.
Mack came around the front of the truck to their side and took Calla’s other hand.
“Now,” he and Liam said together.
Calla reached up and pulled the blindfold off. She blinked a few times in the bright noon sunlight. Then her brow scrunched.
She looked from Liam to Mack. “I don’t understand. Why are we at my family’s old ranch?”
Liam’s grin was so wide it was gonna break his damn face. “Gotta have a place to bring our baby home to, yeah?”
Calla blinked some more. “What do you—”
“We bought the place,” Mack said.
Calla’s mouth dropped open and her eyes went wide. “But how—”
“Turns out there was a reason Mack got a full ride to Harvard. He’s a right smart bastard.”
