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After, we both put our ruffled clothes back on. I hugged Bobby and kissed his forehead. “Got you something else, too.”
He hugged me back. “The surprises just keep coming today, huh? I should get mad at you more often.” I chuckled and led him through the door to his workspace.
I unveiled the tree, pulling the light canvas cloth from over top of it. “A little gift for your office.”
Bobby made ameepsound, and seeing him have one more thing to be overjoyed over made this one of the best days of my life. The best might well have been the day I met him. He shifted immediately and leapt to the top. He looked down at me and let out a bleat of joy that made me fall over laughing. I recorded some video of him climbing on the low, squat, solid tree to tease him over later.
When he finally came down, he shifted back to his human form and we sat on our butts on the carpet, looking at the tree, Bobby’s head on my shoulder.
“So, how’re we gonna do this, Mister Lion Man? Not only us being a couple, but us being afamily.” He looped his arm through mine and squeezed my bicep in a sweet little hug.
I chuckled. “I’ve been a one-man-army in my business for so many years, I forgot how to let other people into my life. I’m not gonna be one of those businessmen who finds the perfect mate, then loses them because he so stubbornly refuses to give his work a break. Especially now, with a baby on the way, I need to be there to spoil you.”
“That’s exactly right, good on you for recognizing it without me having to bonk your noggin.”
I laid a soft hand on his belly. “I never in my wildest dreams thought I’d have something like this. I never thought I’d ever have someone like you. I didn’t get this far being a stupid asshole. An asshole sometimes, but not stupid. I know what I have in front of me. I’m not dropping the ball.”
“I know you won’t, Big Lion.” He stroked my arm, and in that moment I was the tallest alpha in the world.
“Should I look at hiring somebody to replace us, stop working altogether?”
“Hmm.” He tapped his finger to his lips. “Nah. I’d go stir crazy without the excitement of the job. We need to make a deal with ourselves and each other to limit our working hours to fifty a week, being generous. We need to have fun and keep our fingers in the pot with the business, but we make time for the kid. Or kids.”
“Well, Iamfilthy rich. We can have a nanny who sits right here in the office with us taking care of the kids while we work. We have that option.”
“I sure am glad to have money now. So many other parents never get the opportunity to spend that much time with their kids because of work. They never get that choice.”
“Things will be different for us. Anything we want, we can get. Anything the kids need, it’ll be there in an instant.”
Bobby wagged a stern finger. “We won’t be spoiling them, though.”
“No, no spoiling our kids. Just showering them with love.”
“We have an endless supply of love to give them. If it’s like this between us, I can’t wait to see how much love there is when our little person comes into the world.”
“Can’t wait to find out.”
My perfect future was right around the corner, and my perfect present was right in front of me.
9
VICTOR
“Bobby,”I asked slowly, leaning on my desk with one foot kicked up over the other, “What are you doing?” He was rifling through all my drawers at a breakneck pace, tossing things all over, which wasn’t like him because he always ran a tight, neat ship. He ignored me for a while, continuing his frantic rummaging until-
“Ah, ha!” He stood up straight, triumphantly holding up one of those microfiber cloths for cleaning glasses in his hand like it was some kind of trophy. “Finally.” Standing up, in profile like this, it was plain just how far his belly stuck out in front of him. He was petite, so he would have looked like he was smuggling a beachball anyways, but it seemed like his belly was almost as big as he was, so we knew we must have twins on the way.
“Finally, what?” I asked, confused.
“I just so happen to have a craving, Mister Lion Man, but for what, I don’t exactly know.”
“But why are you…oh.” That’s why he was looking for the cloth. “Wait, don’t you-” Bobby popped it in his mouth and started chewing, his jaw working in big circles. “-Want a candy bar or something.” I finished the sentence with a laugh and a shake of my head. “I sure hope that’s hitting the spot.”
He shrugged, then swallowed in a big gulp, the lump of cloth traveling down his throat. “I mean, it’s good, but it’s not quite scratching the itch.” Bobby looked around like he thought he’d find what he was looking for in some other corner of the room.
“What exactly is it that you want?”
“I don’t know,” he whined. “You’re my mate, you’re supposed to help me.”
