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I press my lips to hers. “You’re incredibly easy to love.”
“Is this a good time to tell you that I ordered enough cupcakes to give this baby gestational diabetes?”
“He’ll be just fine,” I tell her a second before rolling her to her back and pressing my lips on her still flat stomach. “Will Adalynn have them ready for me?”
“She should,” she says, her eyes following me the same way they have for the last six weeks since she moved in with me.
“If you keep staring at me like that…” I warn as I pull on a pair of jeans.
“You’ll what?” she challenges.
I have to groan as I reach for my shirt. She wants all the things at once, but she’ll turn into a little grizzly bear if I use up all her energy before I have cupcakes waiting for her to refuel.
“I ordered cookies and cream, creamsicle, and mint chocolate chip. Oh and we’re out of—”
“Freeze-dried Skittles and Tajin,” I say. “I saw the empty packages in the trash.”
“You’re the best fiancé a girl could ever have.”
“Tell your mother I like sunflowers, and I don’t care what everyone in the South does. If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.”
“You can tell her when we pick up the boys,” she says.
“Do not get out of that bed,” I say. “And don’t bother putting clothes back on either.”
She laughs when I bolt from the room. I grab my keys and wallet from the console table near the front door and nearly trip trying to walk and get my boots on at the same time.
The drive into town is quick, and since it’s so early, there’s hardly anyone out. They’re all getting ready for church. I knew it would be a good time to come to the bakery because Adalynn will be slammed in less than an hour when hungry kids are begging for sweets to make it through the service without falling asleep.
The bell above the door announces my entry, but Adalynn isn’t behind the counter smiling at me.
I allow my mouth to water as I look over the other treats in the display case. Madison has been counterproductive to my exercise routine since she got pregnant. Although she tells me that she wouldn’t care if my muscles weren’t as defined, I get a thrill every time her eyes trace the dips and ridges.
“Chase!” Adalynn snaps when she comes out from the back room. “I didn’t know you were here.”
I narrow my eyes at the sight of her messy hair and disheveled clothes.
“Adalynn,” I say cautiously.
She lifts her hand to her hair.
“I swear, Adalynn, that mouth of yours is—”
I snap my attention to Cash Tucker as he runs right into the back of her, his hands working to close his belt buckle.
Adalynn’s cheeks turn brighter than the jam in the cherry turnovers tempting me from the display case.
“Fu-freak,” Cash says as he locks eyes with me. “I’ll, um… see you later.”
We both watch Cash leave the bakery. Adalynn is looking everywhere but at me when I turn my attention back to her.
“I’m not explaining myself to you, Chase Woodson.”
“I didn’t say a word.”
Silence fills the space between us, and I know Adalynn enough to know she’ll stew in what I’ve borne witness to until all the information bubbles up and over.
“If you tell Madison, I’ll hate you forever.”
