I frowned.
My forehead creased.
I’d been planning this for years, waiting for the timing to be right so I wouldn’t upset her by bringing back shitty memories.
There was no way I’d forgotten something.
I—
“You didn’task, Ambrose.”
Oh.
Shit.
I’d figured a surprise was the best way to stop her from stressing, but she had a point. I should’ve started with a question. Especially when I already knew what her answer would be.
I cleared my throat and released her, lowering myself to one knee and taking Madi’s hand between mine. “Mads, will you marry me?”
Her lips stretched in a wide smile.
More tears flooded her eyes.
“Yes. I will.”
I stood up and dragged her into my arms, kissing her.
Before our tongues met, she gave a surprised squeak that was nowhere near normal. I released her as she pulled away.
“What happened?” I asked.
“I think I just peed myself. Or my water just broke.”
She lifted the hem of her dress, and my nostrils flared.
Definitely didn’t smell like urine.
Excitement swelled in my chest, and I swept her into my arms.
“What are you doing?” she protested, as I hauled her back down the path we’d just walked. “You didn’t grab the fruit! And weshould have time before I actually need to go to the hospital, Ambrose. I?—”
“You’re having our baby, Mads. The fruit can wait.”
She moaned a complaint, but we both knew she wasn’t getting out of my arms to go after the food herself.
I’d ask one of our friends to grab it for me and drop it off in the house just in case her craving stuck around after the baby came.
Because holy fuck—we were having a baby.
Thirty-two hoursand ten minutes later, I was crammed on a hospital bed with my mate, staring down at the chunky little boy in her arms in utter awe.
Madison was so fucking strong.
She’d grown a tiny person. In her body.
We were both already utterly obsessed with him.
He slept peacefully, his belly full and his lips parted in a little pout. We’d been right about his gender, and his animal form. We hadn’t seen him shift yet, but hefeltlike a bear, and we trusted our intuition on that.
