He had a permanent grin as he cradled Julie in his arms. “Hey, baby girl.”
I placed a hand over my heart, trying to reel in my emotions. Seeing Kade and how happy he was made my heart burst.
“The other two, we’re not sure yet,” I said as I slumped back in the bed, not taking my eyes off my handsome husband.
My body was tired, my brain was slowly shutting down, and suddenly, I wanted to sleep. “But we’ll decide before we take them home.”
Home.I couldn’t wait to get all three of them into the amazing nursery we had set up. I couldn’t wait to spend my days rocking them to sleep. I couldn’t wait to curl up next to my husband and snuggle with the babies beside us.
Life was perfect.
Chapter 19
Kade
The last few months had been exhausting. Since bringing the girls home, we’d been going nonstop like the Energizer bunny. There was three of everything. Three diaper changes. Three bottles or rounds of breastfeeding if Lacey could do it. She was on a revolving schedule of pumping her breasts since she couldn’t feed all three girls back to back. So she had some breast milk ready for the two who lost out on feeding directly from her. She would switch up, making sure each of the girls got a chance to feed from her. We had three baths, three loads of laundry, and the list went on.
To say we were worn out was an understatement. We barely had time to sleep, relax, or even eat half the time.
Kody had taken my spot as manager at The Cave for a few months because I wanted to stay home and help Lacey. As far as baseball was concerned, Lacey wasn’t ready to return yet. However, Tara had informed her that the Sea Dogs had drafted a contract for her to sign for next season. Even if she wanted to play, it would be hard considering she was breastfeeding, and with only two months left in the season, it didn’t make sense for her to return to the team.
Despite that, I’d thought Lacey would be more driven to get back to the team and playing, but giving birth seemed to have put things in perspective according to my wife.
“I do want to play again, but you and the girls come first,” she’d said after we had had a long and in-depth conversation about her career. “I know I was worried about whether any team would sign me if I took time off, but family comes first.”
And now that the Sea Dogs had a contract waiting for her, she didn’t have to worry about her career.
Mom was at the house every day, helping us with cooking, cleaning, and washing clothes. Hell, the whole family seemed to be living with us. Kelton’s girl, Lizzie, was there any chance she had. The woman was dying to get married and have kids.
We didn’t see Ruby and Kross much, but I hadn’t expected to either since they had their hands full with their own girls.
Lacey rubbed her eyes as she came into the nursery. “You look sexy sitting in that rocker with Jazlyn cuddled up to you.” She stepped deeper into the yellow-and-pink room, which was big enough to hold six babies if need be. She peeked into Julie’s crib and then Jordan’s.
We settled on the names before we’d left the hospital four months ago.
“Did you get a good nap?” I asked as I rocked Jazlyn. She was our second born, and we’d decided on the name after watching her in the hospital nursery. She seemed to always have a smile on her face when she was sleeping, so Lacey and I thought the name just fit her.
“I did, but I would sleep better if you were in bed with me.” She waggled her eyebrows.
I raked my gaze up and down her gorgeous body. She was wearing a Sea Dogs T-shirt and sleep shorts that showed off her toned legs. Lacey was almost back to her pre-pregnancy shape, except for her tits, which were huge now and would be as long as she kept breastfeeding.
She sashayed her sweet body over to a rocking chair beside me. We had three in the room. “You know, maybe we can go out to dinner next weekend. Your mom and Lizzy offered to take care of the girls. We could get a hotel room for a few hours too.”
I eased up and onto my feet, careful not to wake Jazlyn. She’d just fallen asleep before Lacey came in. Once she was in her crib, I tugged Lacey out of her chair. “Come here, baby.”
She giggled. “Careful of the boobs. They’re painful right now. I’m either going to have to feed the girls or pump.”
I chuckled as I glanced down at her tits. I was getting hard thinking about the things I would like to do to my wife that I hadn’t been able to do in months.
“I’m always gentle,” I whispered in her ear before planting my lips on hers.
She moaned, pushing her hips into my groin as our tongues touched for the first time in forever. “Mr. Steel is ready.”
“He’s been ready,” I teased. Actually, I wasn’t teasing. My balls were blue.
She flattened her hands on my bare chest. “I think it’s time for you to get three more hearts tattooed on your chest.”
“I was thinking that very thing yesterday.” I wanted to have three small hearts surrounding the one I had with Lacey’s name on it.
