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“I feel that, too,” he said, pressing in to try and determine what body part was where.

We never knew seeing as she was still kind of small, but it was fun to guess.

I finished with his total of nine stitches and cleaned him back up, giving him the go-ahead to return back to work.

“I have a break in fifteen minutes,” I said softly, pressing my body deliciously against his. “Wait in the break room for me?”

He understood without being told exactly what I was hoping to get.

He looked at his watch. “I have exactly twenty minutes before I need to be back.”

I grinned. “That’s plenty of time for you to get me off.”

With that, I left.

And he didn’t disappoint.

He got me off.

It only took him three of the five minutes.

Best. Day. Ever.

***

Luca

Three months later

“Today is the day!”

I glared at Malachi, my cheerful pain in the ass friend.

“I realize that,” I grumbled.

Malachi chuckled.

“You’re just mad that I was there when her water broke and you weren’t,” he said. “I’m sorry,

okay?”

I walked toward the bed where Frankie was lying hooked up to all kinds of monitors and doo-

dads and leaned over her before offering her a kiss.

She took the kiss, then pressed her forehead against mine.

“I’m okay,” she promised.

I knew that.

When Malachi had called after I’d asked him to stop by and check on my wife who I hadn’t heard

from in a couple of hours, it was to get a call back an hour later saying that he’d taken her to the hospital.

“You thought you would labor at home all day without me?” I asked, voice tight.

She sighed.

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