“Other names?” I echoed softly, shaking my head in confusion.
“Yeah, I’ve always wanted a little sister,” she admitted with a sly grin. “Maybe you could get to work on that for me?”
“A sister? Um, no. I just met your dad a couple of days ago. It’s way too soon to be talking about stuff like marriage and babies.” Although, maybe it wasn’t since we hadn’t used a single condom last night...
“You’d think so, except it happens all the time around here.”
My head jerked back in shock. “I thought your dad had never been married before?”
“Oh, not him.” Delia pointed at a framed picture on the fireplace mantel in the living room. “My uncle proposed to my aunt the same weekend they met and didn’t waste any time giving me cousins.”
“I guess love at first sight does happen sometimes,” I conceded. “But it doesn’t mean that’s what’s going to happen with your dad and me since it’s not the usual for couples.”
“Around here it is. You’ve got my aunt and uncle.” Delia lifted up her hand and started ticking off her fingers. “And then there’s a bunch of my dad’s friends who’ve gotten married super-fast, too. Drew and Autumn, Griffith and Belle, Maddox and Ariel, Will and Aurora, Knox and Addilyn, Julian and Anna. The list is long, and there are plenty of babies to go around...except none of them are my little sisters”—she grinned mischievously and winked—“yet.”
I would’ve asked about all the fairy-tale princess names, except I was too busy trying to wrap my brain around all the examples of love at first sight she was able to rattle off from the top of her head. I was starting to think Delia really did want me to marry her dad and give her siblings...and it might be crazy, but I was hoping her dad was on board with the plan, too.
10
Zack
I opened my eyes and frowned when I saw that I was alone in bed. My whole body froze in fear when I thought about the possibility that Amelia had run out on me. Then I saw her clothes still scattered on the floor and breathed a huge sigh of relief.
“Amelia?” I called, wondering if she might be in the en suite bathroom. “Beautiful?” There was no answer, so I hopped out of bed and grabbed a pair of sweatpants from my closet. After yanking them on, I went in search of Amelia. When I opened the bedroom door, the smell of coffee hit me, and my stomach growled. A smile lifted the corners of my mouth, and I followed the delicious scent that would lead me to my woman.
My steps slowed outside the kitchen when I heard two female voices. I assumed Delia was home, and I felt nervous all of a sudden. I wasn’t worried about them getting along; they were both sweet and loving. My concern stemmed from the fear that meeting Delia so soon would spook Amelia even though she’d said that my having a teenage daughter didn’t bother her.
Soft laughter floated out of the kitchen, and the smile that had disappeared stretched wide across my face again. There was no sound more beautiful than the laughter of my daughter and soon-to-be wife. Well...almost nothing. Amelia’s cries of passion when she climaxed were my favorite too.
With a spring in my step, I entered the kitchen and almost ran right into Delia. She gave me a quick hug and whispered, “Good job, Dad. I really like her.” Warmth flooded my body, a sweet feeling of pure love and happiness. The same one I always got when my daughter was happy. I squeezed her back briefly before letting her go. She began moving again but patted my shoulder as she walked past. “Now get to work on that baby sister I’ve always wanted,” she instructed in her normal volume. Then she was gone, and I was left with a wide-eyed, obviously shocked beauty and laughter bubbling up my throat.
I scanned her from head to toe, and something primitive inside me roared with possession and satisfaction at the sight of my woman in my clothes. With a devilish grin, I closed the distance between us in a few strides and wrapped my arms around Amelia. “You heard the boss, beautiful,” I stated matter-of-factly. “We need to get to work on knocking you up.” I kissed the tip of her nose before running my lips along her jawline, making her shiver. “I think we are off to a pretty good start after last night,” I whispered before nibbling the lobe of her ear. My cock was already rock hard, but it throbbed with barely restrained hunger. Who would have guessed that an earlobe could be so fucking sexy? Not that it really surprised me too much. There wasn’t an inch of Amelia’s body that didn’t fill me with desire.
Amelia had melted into me, and a little moan escaped her lips, but after another moment, she stiffened. I raised my head to meet her gaze and almost got lost in her gorgeous brown eyes. Her brows were furrowed, and her mouth pinched as she stared at me with uncertainty.
“How can you be talking about kids already? We just met!” she exclaimed. I didn’t have the chance to answer before she continued, “This is crazy. I’m going home tomorrow.”
My expression darkened, and my hold on her tightened. “You are home,” I growled. Amelia’s eyes squinted at me in confusion, and she opened her mouth, but I silenced her with a deep kiss. When I finally let her up for air, I narrowed my eyes, warning her not to argue with me. She clamped her mouth shut but gave me a cute little glare. “As I said before, beautiful. From the moment your lips touched mine, I knew you were it for me, and I don’t want to waste time pretending otherwise. Who gives a fuck what the rest of the world thinks? What matters is what we feel. Only you and me. And no matter how hard you try to fight it, I know you feel what’s between us.”
“What do you mean I am home?” she squeaked. I almost rolled my eyes. Had she missed everything else I’d said by fixating on that one thing in the beginning?
“Just what I said, Amelia. This is your home now. Our home.”
“But I live in a whole other state,” she argued weakly.
I shrugged. “You can work from anywhere, right?”
“Yes, but—”
“I’ll arrange to have your things packed up tomorrow, and everything should be here the day after that.”
Amelia stared at me for a moment, her expression unreadable. Then she sighed and laid her head on my chest. “I’m not denying I feel the pull between us. You are more than I ever dreamed a man could be. It’s not that I don’t want to pursue a relationship, but I don’t understand how you can be so sure.”
I curled my index finger under her chin and nudged her head up. She dropped it back so she could look up at me. “Because I love you, beautiful. You’re the other half of my soul, and from the moment we met, I felt complete.”
Her lips parted and her eyes widened, but what I saw in their depths was hope. “Do you really believe in love at first sight?” she asked tentatively.
I nodded firmly. “I’ll admit, I didn’t really believe it until it happened to me, but I’ve seen it over and over.” Her whole face softened, and I stifled the urge to kiss her and take her back to bed. I needed one thing first. “Stop thinking so hard, Amelia. What does your heart tell you?”
She studied my face for a couple of very long seconds, then a smile lit up her face. “I love you too, Zack.”
I cupped her cheeks in my palms and brushed a kiss over her lips. “You have no idea what those words do to me, beautiful.”
She was already pressed tightly against me and could no doubt feel my desire. Still, I rocked my hips a little so the long, thick bulge in my pants pushed into her stomach.
“Show me,” she moaned. I covered her mouth with mine, plunging my tongue in to taste her sweetness. I groaned, and my hands slid down her body to cup her ass and lift her. Her legs automatically circled my waist, and I moved to the nearest wall and pressed her back against it. I slipped one hand under her shirt and brought it to rest on the underswell of her breast.
“Dad!” Delia’s voice suddenly shattered the moment, and I groaned at the interruption, burying my head in Amelia’s neck.
She giggled, and I growled, “This shit is not funny, Amelia. I’m dying here ” My words only made her giggle harder, and I grunted in frustration as I lifted my head and slo
wly lowered Amelia to her feet. Then I took a few deep breaths to will my dick to calm down before calling, “In the kitchen, sweetie.”
Delia snorted, the sound coming from the hallway just outside the entrance to the kitchen. “Yeah, I’m not coming in there. I know exactly what’s going on in that kitchen. I just wanted to let you know that I’m going to Kim’s to study for our finals. So...carry on.”
Amelia blushed bright red and dropped her forehead to my chest. She didn’t make a sound, but her shoulders were shaking with silent laughter. When we heard the front door slam shut, she stopped trying to hold it in and collapsed against me in a fit of giggles.
I would have joined her if I hadn’t been aching with the need to be inside her. In a flash, I had her shirt whipped over her head and lifted her with her legs wrapped around me and her back supported against the wall. Her laughter melted into a ragged moan when I sucked a hard, pink nipple into my mouth. I rocked into her, pressing my shaft into the heat of her center.
After switching tits, I licked and nibbled while I reached for the waistband of my sweats and freed my painfully swollen cock. I let her nipple go with a little pop and returned to drink from her mouth as I used the same hand to yank the boxers she was wearing to the side. I pushed a finger into her slick pussy, testing to see if she was ready for me. Amelia was small, but she’d taken me fully inside her every time we’d made love.
But this time, I was feeling desperate and out of control. I wanted to fuck her hard, and my last vestiges of sense warmed me to make sure she could handle it. “Damn, you’re tight as fuck,” I groaned. But she was so slick that my digit easily slid into her channel. I pumped it a few times and used my thumb to rub her clit. She cried out my name, and it pushed me over the edge of sanity. “Are you ready for more, beautiful?”
“Please,” she begged softly.
I withdrew my finger and grabbed my cock, lining it up with her sex. Then I drove in deep, seating myself fully with one thrust. “Fuck!” I shouted as I slapped a hand onto the wall near her head. “I can’t hold back, beautiful,” I warned her with a ragged breath.
“Don’t, Zack. I need you,” she whimpered.
“Kiss me, baby,” I growled. Our lips met, and our souls merged as I lost all control. My hips pumped fast and hard. I would have been concerned about being too rough if she hadn’t thrown back her head and cried out, asking for more.
I drove her up and over the edge, gritting my teeth and using all of my strength to follow right after her. Before she even had a chance to come down from that high, I was pushing her toward another. “You’re going to marry me, right?” I suddenly blurted out.
“Yes!” Amelia shouted as she threw her arms around my neck and kissed me soundly. Shudders started wracking her body, and after a minute, she tore her mouth from mine and screamed yes for a whole different reason.
With her answer ringing in my ears and my heart, I came so hard I could have sworn I saw stars. We rode out our climaxes together, and when I finally began to recover, I swept her into my arms and carried her back to our bedroom. I set her on her feet before stripping us out of the rest of our clothes. We crawled naked into bed, and I wrapped myself around her, feeling completely content.
“Um, Zack?” Amelia asked after a few minutes.
“Yeah, beautiful?”
“Did you just ask me to marry you during sex?”
“You bet your pretty little ass I did.”
Suddenly, Amelia pulled away and sat up, dodging me when I growled and reached for her. She put her hands on her curvy hips, and I was momentarily distracted by her tits bouncing with her sharp breaths.
“Are you going to ask me when I’m not delirious from multiple orgasms? It seems a little underhanded.”
I lifted my gaze to meet her eyes and raised a single eyebrow. “I never claimed to fight fair, beautiful. And when it comes to you, Amelia, there isn’t anything I wouldn’t do to make you mine forever.”
She visibly melted a little but grumbled, “It’s not like I’d say no if you asked me now.”
I shrugged. “That might be true, but you already said yes, so why take that chance?”
Amelia fought a smile but lost the fight, and her mouth curved up as her eyes danced with humor. “You could have at least waited until you had a ring,” she teased.
I rolled over to face my nightstand and opened the drawer and grabbed a little white box. Then I pushed it shut and returned to my previous position. I flipped up the top of the box and showed her its contents. “Like this?” I asked with a lopsided grin.
Amelia gasped and covered her mouth with her hands as she stared at the antique, five-carat, marquee diamond set in a simple platinum band. “How could you possibly…?” she mumbled.
“It belonged to my father’s mother,” I told her as I removed the ring from the bed of velvet and grabbed her hand away from her mouth to slip it on her finger. “The night you first kissed me, I took it out of the safe in my home office and stuck it in this drawer. Somehow, I knew I would be needing it very soon.”
Amelia’s face was lit with joy, and she fell on top of me, fusing our mouths. The kiss led to another round of lovemaking, but this time, I took her soft and slow, showing her how precious she was to me. “I love you,” I rasped as I collapsed onto the bed beside her, still breathing hard.
She curled up into my side and threw an arm and leg over me. “I love you, too,” she sighed happily. “Who would have thought that a silly dare would lead me to the man of my dreams?”
“Man of your dreams, huh?” I repeated cockily.
She laughed and patted my stomach. “Don’t let it go to your head.”
I quickly rolled us over so she was sprawled underneath me and slid my still hard cock into her hot pussy. “Oh, it’s definitely gone straight to my head, beautiful.”
Epilogue
Amelia
“You did a great job. Congratulations, Mommy and Daddy.”
I smiled up at the nurse who’d assisted me through my labor and delivery. “Thank you.”
“Are you ready for visitors? Or should I tell them to wait a little longer and give you some alone time with the baby?” she asked as she set a pitcher of water on the table next to my bed.
“Please let Delia know she can come back,” I instructed, tilting my head up to smile at Zack. “She’s waited a long time to meet this little one.”
My gorgeous husband’s dark eyes filled with gratitude. He brushed a kiss against the top of my head and gently cupped his hand over the baby’s head before adding, “Everyone else will understand that we want to bond as a family before they come in.”
“Ooh! If Becket is still out there, tell him to go get me a strawberry milkshake and an animal style burger from In-N-Out,” I requested. It’d been way too long since I’d had anything to eat, and my mouth watered at the thought of scarfing my order down.
The nurse laughed and gave me a thumbs-up. “Will do.”
“I would’ve gotten you something to eat if you had told me you were hungry,” Zack grumbled.
I lifted our precious bundle a little higher. “I’m not ready for you to leave us yet.”
“Good because there’s no getting rid of me, even if the nurses try to give me some bullshit about visiting hours tonight.” He turned his head to glare at the door as though someone was going to come through it and try to kick him out.
“Silly man.” I patted his hand and laughed softly. “Did you forget in all the excitement that visiting hours don’t apply to new daddies?”
“You can’t be surprised if he did, Amelia. He almost forgot your overnight bag in his haste to get you out the door when you went into labor,” Delia reminded me as she walked in the door and made a beeline over to the other side of my bed.
“True. It’s a good thing you were there to remind us.” She’d started college a few months ago but came home for a long weekend after midterms since it was so close to my due date.
“Hey, now!” Zack pr
otested with a small grin. “You can’t give me too hard of a time over it when I had a lot on my mind at the moment.”
“You’d never know he practiced the drive between home and the hospital at least a dozen times to get ready for this day,” I teased.
The baby let out a small cry, and all our attention shifted to the little bundle in my arms. “At least one of my girls jumped to my defense,” Zack claimed.
“Nah, she’s on our side for sure,” Delia disagreed with a grin. “Girl power and all that.”
Zack chuckled and shook his head. “I see how it’s going to be now that you got the little sister you wanted.”
Delia shrugged her shoulders. “You should’ve given me a brother instead if you wanted to even out the numbers.”
“Maybe next time.” I shifted my hold on the baby so Delia could more easily see her face. “Are you ready to meet your sister?”
“Beyond ready,” Delia answered as she leaned down to get a better look. “Hello, Julia. I’m your big sister, Delia. I love you so much, precious girl.”
“Do you want to hold her?” I offered.
Delia’s head jerked up in surprise. “Can I?”
“Of course,” Zack answered. “Just be careful with her head.”
“I know how to hold a baby, Dad,” Delia sighed. “Not only do I have little cousins I’ve babysat for, but I also read all the baby books you sent me.”
Zack had gone way beyond gung-ho when it came to preparing for Julia’s birth, which had only made his frantic state during my labor and delivery that much funnier. He read everything he could get his hands on about pregnancy, parenting, and babies. He’d also been super over-protective of me, to the point where I’d often joked about him just wrapping me in bubble wrap any time I left the house. I’d quickly learned my caveman husband had a whole other level of alpha male inside him.
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