Total pages in book: 25
Estimated words: 24154 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 121(@200wpm)___ 97(@250wpm)___ 81(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 24154 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 121(@200wpm)___ 97(@250wpm)___ 81(@300wpm)
I push the hair off her face and kiss her, wanting to show her how much she means to me. When I’m breathless and my cock starts to stir alive again, I pull back and whisper, “Always.”
She loops her arms around my neck. “Always, Jack. Always.”
I cradle her to me. Life is not going to be perfect, but with her by my side, it’s going to be close.
“I love you, Emily soon to be Felon.”
I wait for her to blanche at the name or maybe even reconsider, but she does none of those things. She beams up at me. “I love you too, Jack Felon.”
EPILOGUE
EMILY
Six Months Later
“Emily! I’m home.” Jack hollers as he walks into the house.
I’m standing in the bedroom, half naked, and I start pulling on clothes. Panic sets in, and I barely have time to calm myself before Jack is walking into the room.
He’s smiling ear to ear, which he’s been doing a lot lately, but one look at me and his smile disappears. “What is it? What’s wrong?”
I keep putting clothes on. “Nothing. I’m good. You good? We’re going to be late.”
He comes to stop next to me. “Emily… what are you not telling me?”
I go to my tiptoes and kiss his cheek. “Nothing. We don’t want to be late.”
I walk out of the bedroom and toward the kitchen. I fully expect him to stay in the bedroom to get ready so I’m surprised when he follows me through the house.
I try to ignore him, but he’s not having it. He stands next to me, pulling me into his arms. “Do you not want to go?”
I force a smile to my face. “We have to go. It’s Alice’s birthday, and she’ll come and find me if we don’t show up.”
He growls, and I pat him on the chest. “Stop. You know you love Alice.”
“Uh, yeah, I don’t love that she took you to a bar in Jasper to pick up men.”
I let out a laugh. “I wasn’t there to pick up men, I was her wing woman. I was trying to help her meet someone.”
He blurts out a laugh. “Yeah, you saw how that went. Gunner whooped the guy’s ass and then destroyed the bar.”
I nod, remembering it. “Yeah, it didn’t go well. What’s up with him and Alice anyway? Alice says they’re not together, but you wouldn’t know it by the way Gunner acts about her.”
Jack just shakes his head and holds his hands up. “I don’t know anything.”
I roll my eyes because of course he has an idea, but he’s just not one to gossip.
“Emily.”
I put some distance between us and sit down on the couch to put on my shoes. “Hmmm.”
He comes to sit down on the coffee table in front of me. He has me caged in between his thighs. “Talk to me. Something happen at work?”
I shake my head. “We both know if something happened you would already know about it, Jack. You have a bodyguard assigned to me and she never leaves my side.”
He shrugs. “Fine. Talk to me.”
I look down at my hands. “Talk to you about what?”
He puts a finger on my chin and lifts it so I have to look at him. “Talk to me about what’s bothering you.”
“Nothing,” I lie.
He moves to the seat next to me and then gently pulls me into his lap. I go easily without hesitation. I’m used to Jack pulling me into his lap, carrying me around and every other way he manhandles me.
Even as I burrow into him, I’m telling him we need to go. “We’re going to be late.”
“We will get there sooner if you tell me what’s on your mind.”
I clear my throat. “Okay, well, remember after we got married we decided that we would wait a few years before we had kids?”
He looks at me curiously. “Yes.”
I nod and swallow. “Right, well, maybe we should talk about this later.”
“Emily.” He says my name as he holds me tighter. “Talk to me. What is it? Did you change your mind?”
My eyes widen. I didn’t exactly change my mind on purpose, but it is what it is. “Well, actually, what do you think of having a kid sooner?”
He nods and kisses my cheek. “Let’s do it.”
This was too easy. I grab him and shake my head. “Jack, I don’t think you get it. Uh…”
He tenses and searches my face. “Wait… are you saying… are you pregnant?”
I bite my lower lip and since I’m unable to answer him, I nod my head.
I stare at him, eyes wide, wondering how he is going to react to the news. We talked about traveling. We’ve talked about a lot of things, and all of those included waiting a few years to have kids. Jack’s face goes from pure excitement to worry. “Are you okay with this?”