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“We love you too, baby,” Liam says as he tucks her hair behind her ears.
“Hmm,” I mumble my agreement before I roll onto my side, pulling her with me so she’s lying on her side between the two of us. We each wrap an arm around her waist and I look at her beautiful face and feel more at peace than I ever have in my entire life.
Chapter 6
Liam
Iwalk into the master bedroom to find Jessie but I can’t see her. It’s our second night at the lake house and it has been without a doubt two of the best days of my entire life. I love sharing her with my brothers, but I also love getting her to myself for a while too. Both Mikey and I have managed some time alone with her and I know he loves it just as much as I do.
The light from the bathroom is on and the door is half-open so I walk inside. She’s putting a box of tampons back on the shelf but she must hear me coming in because she turns and looks at me. When she does, my heart breaks for her. Tears are running down her face and she wipes them away with her hand.
I cross the room in two strides and wrap my arms around her, picking her up so she can wrap her legs around me too.
“I’m sorry, baby,” I whisper in her ear.
She sobs into my neck as she clings to me. This has happened every month for the last seven months and I swear each time she gets even more heartbroken than the last and it kills me to see her so upset. I walk back into the bedroom as Mikey walks in. He looks at us both, his eyes wide as he wonders why our wife is sobbing in my arms.
“She got her period,” I whisper as I carry her to the bed.
“Fuck, I’m sorry, Red,” Mikey says as he walks to us, hugging her from behind until she is the Jessie-meat in a Ryan-brother sandwich.
“I’m fine,” she sniffs but her hot tears keep falling onto my neck.
I flash my eyebrows at Mikey and he nods his understanding. We need to take care of our girl. Shane and Conor will want to know but they’ll only worry about her if I call them now.
Mikey presses a soft kiss on the back of her neck. “You got cramps too, Red?”
“Yeah,” she whispers.
He rubs her back. “I’ll go make you some of Conor and Shane’s stinky stuff.”
“Thanks, Mikey,” she mumbles.
With a final kiss on the top of her head, he walks out of the room to go make her one of our older brother’s famous healing poultices. They stink, but they are great for muscle pain. They are also the best thing for period cramps according to Jessie – well aside from orgasms, but she’s clearly not in the mood for any of them right now. Not that she ever is on her first day. The cramps are worse in the first twenty-four hours; it’s the second day when she gets hornier than a teenage boy at the beach.
I crawl onto the bed and lie down, pulling her on top of me. She’s stopped crying and she just lies there on me while I rub my hands over her back.
“It will be okay, baby,” I whisper, brushing her hair from her cheeks where it’s gotten stuck to them with her tears.
“What if it’s not, Liam?” she whispers.
I cup her chin, tilting her face so I can look into her beautiful blue eyes. “What do you mean?”
“What if I can’t give you all a baby?”
I frown at her. “But you will. You know what the doc said. It could take up to a year or more.”
“But what if there’s something wrong with me?” Her voice sounds so small and quiet. Seeing my feisty, stubborn wife this broken is too fucking hard to deal with. “There is nothing wrong with you, Jessie. And we don’t care about a baby as long as we have you.”
“You’re just saying that to make me feel better,” she sniffs.
“I’m not.”
“But I thought you all wanted a baby?”
“We want you, Jessie. A happy you. We should never have started with those stupid ovulation tests.”
She blinks at me and I wince. I shouldn’t have said that aloud, but it’s true. I’ve been thinking for a couple of months that there’s too much pressure attached to this whole baby-making thing, for Jessie at least. Not that fucking her senseless for three days a month isn’t fun, but we do that pretty much every day regardless.
