“What is it?” I ask her, trying my best not to sound as desperate as I feel. Dying to know what’s bugging her, even though I know she’s not upset.
I don’t like surprises, unless I’m delivering them and something tells me she’s got one brewing.
I do the mental checklist: Anniversary? No.
Birthday? Nope. Upcoming award ceremony? Nah.
After a few more minutes, I can’t stand it, and tossing my book aside, I sigh loudly.
“Out with it,” I demand. “Otherwise you know I won’t sleep… and you know what I want to do all night when I can’t sleep,” I warn her, feeling my lip curl in a smile and my pajamas shift at the front just from thinking about it.
“It’s nothing,” she says dreamily, looking around and poking her tongue out before focusing back on her work.
“I was just thinking,” she adds, dragging it out, making me sweat for it.
“Yeeeeessss,” I say patiently.
“I’ll probably have to stop work for a while.”
I groan to myself. “Because it’s late?” I ask her, checking the time again and lifting the covers to make a space for her next to me.
“I mean, I will probably have to stop work… once the baby comes,” she adds casually, turning in her seat to see the effect of her words.
I feel my jaw drop, and my mouth trying to smile, laugh and speak all at once.
In a second I’ve leapt out of bed and rushed over to her, lifting her out of her chair as she squeals. I’m jumping up and down holding her like a baby myself, showering her with kisses until I realize the precious cargo she’s carrying and I freeze on the spot.
“No more excitement,” I order, wincing at my own over enthusiastic response.
“You’ll have to get plenty of bed rest,” I observe, sliding her into bed and drawing up the covers over her, patting her belly gently.
“Does that mean we can’t…?” I ask her, sounding worried until she shakes her head.
“We can. And we will,” she assures me.
I’m a complete mess at the news, but in the best way. Jaydee lets me carry on like an old woman for a few more minutes before she gets herself out of bed, and puts me back in it.
“I feel feverish,” I tell her, clutching the sheets and groaning, then suddenly laughing with excitement, grabbing hold of her and kissing her again.
“I feel… I’m really gonna be a daddy?” I ask her loudly, and she looks concerned, putting her hand to my forehead telling me I’m burning up, but she agrees though.
“Yes, you’re going to be a real live dad and I’m gonna be a mommy.”
And she bursts into tears.
They’re tears of joy, for us both and I’ve never been prouder, happier and more frightened in my whole life.
The first of many.
Finally! A real family of my own.
I love you Jaydee, you’re just perfect.
EXTENDED EPILOGUE
ONE YEAR LATER
Jaydee
“It’s too big.” I tell him, but his smiling face hovering over me is trying to convince me otherwise.
“You said you liked it,” he reminds me. “You said you loved it because it was so big,” he croons.
I smile, then glance at him sidelong. Colton’s always reminding me about what I’ve said, what I want, sometimes weeks or months after the fact.
“That was before we had Jemma, who’ll be walking soon enough, I might add… and now a little brother or sister on the way? I just think it’s too big, I don’t care what I said!” I say firmly, putting my foot down.
Colton sighs, sitting on the edge of the bed, peeking over the bassinet at Jemma, who could sleep through an earthquake, until it’s time for us to get some sleep.
“I just thought moving into the main house would be more practical,” Colton says, sounding calm and reasonable. A plan he’s worked out since marrying me. If he plays the diplomat, the calm voice of reason for long enough, I’ll go along with anything he suggests.
But not the house.
It’s freakin’ huge.
“You said so yourself, it’s like camping inside a museum,” I protest.
Colton looks up from the bassinet, his eyes grow wide and they scan my body, making him growl that low sound he makes whenever he wants to…
“Oh no you don’t!” I warn him, holding up my finger and tying a double knot in my robe’s cord.
“Don’t try and get your own way doing that. I’m serious, Colton. I’m not ready to move into the main house… it’s too… big.”
I finally gasp. He’s stood up, letting his own robe fall open and reminded me where babies come from. How they’re made, and how Colton Smith really is a man who knows what he wants and he’s prepared to do anything to get it.
“Just give it some thought, baby,” he coos. “No pressure, I just thought, with all these babies on the way we’ll need more room. Sooner. Or. Later.”
I moan as his kisses travel up my arm with each word, then he leads my hand to rest on his thick manhood ever at the ready to please me.
“Jemma’s fast asleep,” he reasons in the same, cool voice. Deep, soothing. Logical.
I’m already laying back on the bed, tugging at the stupid knot I tied which won’t come undone.
But no matter, Colton’s head goes right under the robe, and I move my legs wide apart, shuddering suddenly and clutching at the sheets as he starts to work his magic.
That thing he does best when he’s not driving me crazy.
When he’s driving me crazy. In a different way.
Holding his head just where I want him, under my robe, I gasp and writhe some more, inhaling loudly as I wonder just what I did to deserve such a wonderful man.
His own low groans of pleasure tell me he’s thinking the same thing. I know, because I’ve asked him a hundred times and he tells me the truth every single time I do.
“It’s you, Jaydee. You just drive me wild. I feel like I’m nineteen again. Like we’re both gonna live forever and this is heaven.”
Sometimes it works out.
Tonight, Jemma decides no.
Not yet.
Her stuttering cry becomes a steady wail, and Colton frees himself from under my robe in a split second, making a beeline for Jemma after fixing his own robe to make himself decent.
“Hold that thought, honey,” he orders with a wink, and I shudder a breath out, sitting up and straightening my hair and robe, smiling when I see my man holding our little girl so proudly, bringing her over to me and settling her down in between us on the pillows he rearranges.
“See?” I tell him.
“It’s better here, just keeping her nice and close. No big rooms or huge corridors. Cozy, just how I like it. How she likes it.”
And she does like it. Jemma’s only happy once she knows she's the center of attention, preferably having disrupted mommy and daddy’s special time, but only long enough for her to have her feed and go back to sleep again.
For now, she’s content to lay in between us both, looking up and bubbling and gurgling, reaching out her tiny fingers to us both. Colton kissing each of them in turn before his lips press against mine.
“See what we made?” he asks, his eyes full of wonder and love for us both.
“We can stay here, honey. We don’t have to move into the big house, whichever you want is fine with me. As long as I have you, Jemma and mystery contestant number three in there. I’m happiest wherever we’re all together,” he tells me.
And I know he’s not just saying it.
“You alright?” he asks, noticing my eyes, silver rimmed with tears.
“I’m alright,” I tell him. “It’s just what you do to me Colton, Jemma… what you both do to me. It’s the greatest feeling in the world and I love you both for it.”
Thank you Colton.
Jemma.
And baby inside makes three.
Our perfect family and me.
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Contents
Summer Obsession
Copyright
Summer Obsession
NEWSLETTER
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Epilogue
Extended Epilogue
NEWSLETTER
A MAN WHO KNOWS WHAT HE WANTS
BRATVA BEAR SHIFTERS
LAIRDS & LADIES
RUSSIAN UNDERWORLD
IRISH WOLF SHIFTERS
About the Author
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