Page 11 of Acceptance
“I’m looking for Venom, but this is a great distraction.”
Thrusting his hips against her, he smirks. “I can give you one hell of a distraction.”
She looks into his eyes and smiles. It still amazes her how far they’ve come after everything that’s happened between them. A mobster ex-fiancé, dead brother, cheating to push her away, infidelity suspicions thanks to a slutty mother, getting pregnant,married in a hospital room, getting pregnant again, splitting up, filing for divorce, getting back together, moving to Summerville, moving back, and taking in two teenagers. And those are just the highlights.
It feels like a long-running soap opera when she takes the time to play it all over in her mind. By all accounts, these two should not be together right now. But here they are, together and happy.
“What?” Colt asks.
“Just thinking.”
“About?”
Her lips touch his briefly before saying, “Us.”
“Oh, I’m always thinking about us.”
She slaps him playfully. “Not like that. Okay, maybe I am now, but that’s not what I meant.”
The way this man loves her makes her feel like she lives in a dream. At least when it comes to their relationship. It wasn’t always this way. In fact, there was a point she thought he’d fallen out of love with her. There will always be a small bit of insecurity there, but the way he looks at her every time he sees her now reminds her how much he loves her.
“Where did you go so early this morning?”
Shit. She didn’t think he’d notice.“Um… I had an appointment.”
“A doctor’s appointment?”
“Yeah.”
His eyes light up, and Lex feels terrible disappointing him. “Are you—”
“I’m not pregnant. Although, considering how often you mount me, you’d think we’d have an entire fucking football team by now.”
“Are you sick?”
Venom, Colt’s Sergeant at Arms, walks out from his apartment. “We can talk later. I need to steal Venom.”
“Hey, you’re here. I was waiting for you,” Venom says with a small smile.
Colt holds a hand up to her friend, signaling him to wait. “Lex, what’s going on?”
“I’m not sick, so take that out of your head right now. I need to go and do this, but I promise, we’ll talk tonight?”
“It’s nothing bad?”
“I don’t think so, but you might have a different opinion.”
Frowning, he sighs. “Not really making me feel better, baby.”
“I’m nervous to tell you, but when I do, I hope you’ll keep an open mind and understand why.”
“You suck for this,” he says but kisses her. “Venom, take my wife and go and do whatever the fuck you’re going to do. I’m just gonna sit here thinking about all the worst-case scenarios until you bring her back.”
She laughs and taps his cheek. “I’d expect nothing less, baby.”
“What exactly are we doing?” Venom asks.
“You up for a field trip?”
