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Lord help me, with Ghost, this is going to get crazy, fast.
My body is so limp and relaxed after dinner, I’m just taking the opportunity to rest, with my head on Ghost’s chest. I let my fingers roam over his nipples and up and down his pecs. Playing in the smattering of chest hair that is soft and blond.
“You need to tell Badger he did better this time,” I say, tilting my head to look up at Ghost for a minute.
“With what?” he asks, his hand pushing my loose hair behind my ear.
“This safe house.” The smile on his face tells me there is more to this.
“No way he gets the credit for this one.”
“Oh, you found it, did you, clever boy.” My voice is patronizing, and his smirk tells me he doesn’t care one bit, slowly dropping my head down a little again.
“No. I own it.”
My head whips back with a startle. Christ, no more surprises today, please.
“This is mine, Cassie, and the place of our forever home.”
“What do you mean?”
“Tomorrow, I’ll show you and you’ll understand.”
“Is there anything else I don’t know yet? Because I don’t think I can take any more bombshells.”
“Not today, beautiful. Now sleep, and tomorrow, all will be revealed.”
Sleep?! How the hell does he expect that to happen now!
His hand sliding down and into my sex, my hips rise instinctively off the mattress.
Ooooh, that’s how.
My new sleep aid is going to kill me the way he’s going.
What a way to die!
ChapterFifteen
7 MONTHS LATER
CASSIE
Sitting on this chair on our balcony, the sun on my face and on my belly, it feels so amazing. If you’d asked me that first morning after we arrived here, when Ghost and I walked up to this clearing to show me the view, if I could be happy here, my smile would have been my answer. And if Ghost had explained this is where he was going to build our home, and it’d be finished before the baby is born, then I also would have laughed. But thinking back to the last few months, I should never doubt my husband of anything he puts his mind to.
The word husband still feels amazing to say. I can’t believe that Badger went and got himself ordained so he could marry us over a Zoom call. Ghost was adamant that he wanted us married before our little one came into this world and that I would always be looked after financially if anything ever happened to him.
I hate those talks, but in this life we are living, they’re necessary. Our wills are done and lodged with our lawyer who is someone Badger trusts and now Ghost has been using him for years. He knew bits and pieces before, but now he knows everything. Well, almost everything. He doesn’t know who I was before now or the reason I’m here. Ghost refuses to disclose that to anyone. Not even Bull, who I know he is missing terribly. Not that my big tough guy would admit it. He talks about him all the time when we take a moment to just sit under the stars and be still in our own world.
It’s hard to get him to take that time off often. I’m learning he has so much energy, that he needs to burn it off one way or another. My favorite method is getting a little more difficult these days, being over eight months pregnant, but we find a way. I don’t remember hearing anyone talking about being pregnant and how horny it makes you. It’s crazy, I feel like I could jump Ghost multiple times a day. It’s just my energy levels holding me back. Luckily, I have a husband who is happy to take the load for me. I’m never left unsatisfied, and he’s doing all the work. I giggled with him last week, asking him how he is going to last for six weeks with no sex after the baby is born. All I got was a grunt and his eyes rolling. Oh yeah, this is going to be a challenge for both of us. I’m guessing the house will get completely finished with all that extra energy he will have to use up.
The house in a way has been a savior for Ghost. He is getting anxious about the birth, and I know it worries him that we are going to be doing it on our own. Well, technically on our own. We have a doctor that will be helping Ghost on Zoom, and he has been studying every piece of information he can get a hold of on the way to deliver a baby safely. I’m not sure why, but I feel calm about it. Women have had babies in the middle of nowhere with no medical intervention for millennia. Is it ideal? Absolutely not, but we have no other choice right now. As a last resort we will go to the nearest hospital, which is two hours away, but only if it’s an emergency, and at that distance, I’m not sure if it would help us if we got to that point. We just have to keep thinking positive.
The cabin looks like a mini security-operations bunker. Our living room is full of computers and screens, there’s a gun safe in our bedroom, and we have totally outgrown the space. One of the first things Ghost did was to build an escape tunnel out of the cabin in case I needed to get away from danger while he distracts intruders. My husband is full-on, and there is no persuading him to change his mind once he decides he is doing it.
Building our dream home has been a challenge, and I’ve spent many days hiding in the cabin when we have people on site. Ghost has managed to keep the number of people here to an absolute minimum.
We spent that first morning on a rug, watching the sunrise while he told me that he already had a whole house designed and manufactured, ready to go. It was sitting in a warehouse he owns, waiting for when the time came that he wanted to do this. It was made from pre-fab modules that link together. They deliver straight to building site, and it basically gets put together like Lego, and the house structure is up in no time. Ghost had already had the concrete slab poured years ago so it would be ready.
