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She loved being pregnant. Loved even more that I loved her pregnant.
“I’ll take that as a yes,” I said as I ripped her pants off.
She squeaked as she started to turn over to get up, but before she could get farther than her stomach, I caught her up and pinned her to the bed with my body.
“No, Pace!” she cried out. “You’ll rip the sheets again with your prosthetic.”
When I had the blade on as I did today, there were times that it caught on the sheets and ripped them.
Normally, I would take it off. But I had a feeling that if I did, she’d try to take off on me.
“Fuck the sheets, baby,” I said.
Fuck the sheets indeed.
Twenty minutes later, we were lying in bed, exhausted.
“I can’t believe you did that to our sheets again,” she grumbled.
I twisted her so that she was facing me, and then curled my hand around her ass and said, “That’ll be a boy.”
She pinched my chest, right above a scar.
When I’d been blown up by that bomb, I’d had no clue what life had in store for me.
Ten years ago me wouldn’t have believed my luck.
My phone rang, and I got up.
Heading back to the living room naked, I came back just as I answered Viddy’s call.
“Everything okay?” I asked as I headed into our bedroom.
“He’s okay,” she said. “He has a brand-new ball and everything.”
With that comment and her subsequent hang up, I laughed.
Then I relayed the news to my worry wart of a wife.
“He better be here when this next one decides to come along,” Oakley breathed.
“He will be, darlin’. He will be.”
CHAPTER 8
Life’s perfect.
-Viddy’s secret thoughts
VIDDY
One year later
“Three babies by three different children,” Trance said bemusedly. “This is the best birthday present ever.”
“That it is, baby. That it is.”
I looked over at my husband with his three newest grandbabies in his arms and couldn’t help but send a prayer of thanks up to the man upstairs.
