“You don’t have to beg. I wanttostay.”
A smile spread across his face. “Youdo?”
“I thought a lot about it today. We haven’t known each other very long and that was really what was holding me back. Well, that and being pregnant with Ben’s baby. Are you really sure you’re up for loving a woman who’s going to give birth to another man’schild?”
His hands dropped to her hips. “I love you and your baby. I know that it’s not going to be easy, but I don’t care. I need you. I love you. And I don’t care what I have to go through as long as I can bewithyou.”
Tears formed in the corners of her eyes. “I love youtoo,Mack.”
He brought his lips to hers and sealed their love with a kiss hotter than a Yuletide fire. When he finally pulled back, she wasbreathless.
He wiped the tears from her cheeks. “I couldn’t have asked for a better Christmaspresent.”
She half-sniffed, half-laughed. “It’s not evenChristmasyet.”
“Well this year, Christmas cameearly.”
A bolt of desire zigzagged through her core. She stood on the tips of her toes and leaned up to wrap her arms around his neck. “Show me how much youloveme.”
“Are you sureit’ssafe?”
She nodded. “I asked Harriet when she examined me. She said the fall hadn’t hurt the baby and that my pregnancy was progressingnormally.”
“But she said you neededtorest.”
“I’mrested.”
He walked her backward toward the bed. “You’dbetterbe.”
She pulled her sweater over her head. “Is that awarning?”
He grinned. “More like apromise.”
“You’d better make goodonit.”
After lying on the bed next to her, he propped up on one arm. With his free hand, he traced a figure eight around her breasts. “I loveyourbody.”
As he bent to kiss her lips, she whimpered. Warm heat flooded her moist center. She’d never been so turned on so fast by any other man. Virile masculinity flowed from every pore in hisruggedbody.
When he slipped his tongue between her lips, she ran her hand over his ripped biceps. God, she’d get to have his hands all over her for the rest of her life. How on earth did she get this lucky? Maybe it reallywasfate.
He dragged his lips across the side of her neck before nibbling on her earlobe. “Take off yourpants.”
She unbuttoned them and shoved them, and her panties, down to her knees. His roving hand grazed her belly as he reached to pull the rest of her clothes off. As he yanked his sweater over his head, she marveled at the rippling display of powerful muscles on his chest. His stomach clenched showing off a perfectsix-pack.
“You’re so sexy,” shewhispered.
“Itry.”
“You don’t even havetotry.”
She rolled him onto his back and knelt between his thighs. After unbuttoning his pants, she yanked down the zipper. She dragged his pants past his thighs and once they were free, she tossed them into the growing pile ofclothes.
A thick, long bulge poked up against his boxers. She reached in and fished out the hot, throbbing length of him. Before she could try to kiss his cock, he sat up and rolled her ontoherback.
“I can’t wait. I need to beinsideyou.”
“Yes,” shemurmured.
