We had made love well into the night, and as dawn was kissing the morning sky, we were still making love.
He had just thrust inside of me, long, slow, and sweet with his hands on either side of my cheeks, he asked, “I’m going to be a daddy?”
I smiled and nodded, “You’re going to be the best. Frank is awesome, and my dad is too. But you had Misty for a mother. You're going to blow all of them out of the park.”
Yes. Oh yes.
My man, my husband, buried himself as deep as he could get, all the while keeping his eyes locked with mine.
Felt like the very first time,” I whispered as tears cascaded down my cheeks.
He winked, then used his thumb and brushed them away, “Always will be. You’ve held my heart in your hands far longer than either of us realizes it.”
“I love you, Carter Griggs.
“I love you, too, Harlee Griggs.”
***
The next five months followed like this.
He kissed me stupid when he headed to work, only four hours away.
I worked with my clients and hired a second massage therapist to take over while I finished this pregnancy and went into maternity leave.
Something had happened with Tatum.
She actually ended up moving into my old house with her boyfriend.
I wanted the story there, so bad, but I knew that if I pushed it, it would be wrong.
But what wasn’t wrong was calling Garrick and Dominik to come over and hang pictures of our wedding. It also included my mom and Misty bringing over pictures of me and Carter through the years, then having them blown up and hung in our house, too.
And there, on our mantle hanging right above it, was the very moment my eyes were closed, my hair done up, soft makeup, my wedding dress, Carter in his tux, leaned down, pressing a kiss on my forehead as we danced as husband and wife for the very first time.
Oh, and if you didn’t already know that my man was that kind of man.
He proved it when he pulled the rocking chair he made in the living room into the nursery, told me to plant my cute ass in it and keep him company while he built furniture, and moved it to where I wanted.
We were ready for our little one to grace this world.
Everyone wanted to know what we were having, but neither of us wanted to know.
Call us crazy, but we wanted to be surprised.
Another thing we had done... we hadn’t discussed names.
We were going to wait until we saw our baby for the first time in our arms before we named him or her.
The only name that really mattered was Griggs.
‘You. (Yes, You.) Need to stop being so adorable.’
Chapter 19
Carter
I walked into the human resources office and headed for Maribell’s desk. She saw me coming and narrowed her eyes, “Nope.”
