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“We’re taking a few boys south. With your husband,” Nero answers.
“What?” I look back to King. “You can’t take Dominic anywhere. He just got out of the hospital!”
“That’s what I said.” Savannah crosses her arms.
“And I’ll tell Val exactly what I told you.” King crosses his arms in return. “This is Dom’s call.”
“But he can’t. It’s…” I spin away and hurry across the great room.
He would’ve told me if he was leaving.
I rush up the stairs, angry with myself.
Of course he wouldn’t tell me.
I’m breathing heavily when I step into our bedroom.
And standing before me, buttoning the last button of his black shirt, is Dominic.
“Where are you going?” My voice cracks before I even finish the sentence.
He steps closer to me. “Colombia.”
“But you’re still hurt. You’re supposed to rest.” I stretch my arms out toward the bed.
“I’ll be careful.” His tone is so calm. So steady. And it makes me so mad because I’m panicking.
“Dominic, you c-can’t go. Not now. Not with—” I press a hand to my stomach.
He reaches out and cups the side of my face. “I’ll come back to you, my Valentine.” His thumb strokes my cheek. “The woman I love.”
I lift my free hand and press it over his heart as emotion swamps me. He hasn’t said it to me since that first time. And I haven’t said it to him at all.
“I love you, too.” I feel his heartbeat beneath my palm. “So much.”
His eyes close, and I watch him inhale as he listens to my words.
Dom opens those beautiful blue eyes and bends down, stopping with his lips an inch away from mine. “Say that again.”
Lean in.
I blink, loosening another set of tears. “I’m pregnant.”
The room is so quiet I can hear his puffed exhale.
Dom brings his other hand up to hold the other side of my face. “Say that again.” Emotion chokes his voice.
“I love you. And we’re going to have a baby.”
Dom opens his mouth, but he closes it and tips his forehead to mine. “You’re the good woman who changed my life.”
“Dominic.” I say his name like a prayer.
“I’ll come back to both of you. I promise.”
Both of us.
Just like that.
