“Leave my son,” Aidan said, making his mother sigh heavily as she reluctantly placed Cody back in his bassinet with a sadly mumbled, “He’s just so cute,” before his father eventually managed to drag her out of the room and once they were alone…
“Do you have any idea how much I love you?” Aidan asked as he pushed away from the wall and walked over to Cody’s bassinet so that he could pick up their son as she sat there, trying to remember how to breathe.
“No,” she said, mostly because he’d never told her that he loved her before.
“I’m in love with you, Melanie,” Aidan said, smiling down at their son as he sat down on the bed next to her.
When she opened her mouth to respond, he said, “I don’t want you to say it, not now and not until you realize just how much I love you. Then, you can tell me.”
“And until then?”
“I’m going to do everything that I can to make you fall in love with me.”
Chapter 38
Two Months Later…
“If I mean anything to you, anything at all, you’ll sleep through the night so that mommy can get some much-needed alone time with daddy,” Melanie said with a hopeful smile only to sigh when pale green eyes continued to glare up at her.
“Did I mention that I love you?” she asked as she moved to take the bottle away only to have Cody grab hold of the bottle with his little hands, narrow his eyes on her, and continue to suckle.
“You are so demanding,” Melanie said with a mock glare that he really didn’t seem to appreciate.
“That is one terrifying glare,” Aidan said from the doorway, drawing her attention to find him standing there, watching them with that smile that he’d been wearing since Cody was born and god, she wanted him, Melanie thought, biting back a sigh.
Over the last two months, she’d found herself falling more in love with him and all she wanted to do was to be able to able to show him how much he meant to her. When she found out that she was pregnant, the only thing that she could think of was his reaction to the condom breaking and…
She’d been terrified to tell him about the baby, afraid of how he was going to react when he found out only to have him destroy every last fear that she had and turned out to be an incredible father, a kind man, and one of the best friends that she’d ever had. He was always taking care of her, holding her hand, hugging her, and kissing her as he whispered how much he loved her in her ear. He didn’t complain about her carb addiction, the long hours that she spent working or try to change her into something that she wasn’t. Most nights after he tucked Cody in, he’d grab his iPad and join her on the couch while she worked, reading articles and answering emails just so that he could spend time with her.
“Why don’t you go relax? I’ll put him down,” Aidan offered, already moving to take Cody, whose face lit up when he saw his father.
Knowing how much Aidan looked forward to this time with Cody, Melanie reluctantly handed the little traitor over. Not that she was taking this personally, because she wasn’t. She was glad that Cody loved his daddy because Aidan was a great father, but had he carried Cody for nine months and had his vagina ripped in two to give him life? No, but that was fine, Melanie told herself as she watched Cody snuggle up in his daddy’s arms, close his eyes with a smile and make her decision to randomly ground him when he was fifteen that much easier.
Not caring that she was pouting, Melanie walked into the kitchen, grabbed a Hostess apple pie out of the drawer where she kept her stash, walked into the living room, plopped down on the couch, pulled her blankets around her, and promptly dropped over onto her side so that she could glare at the television for a little while as she tried to figure out what she was doing wrong.
Maybe she should just tell him that she was ready to have sex? Melanie thought as she watched the man that she would really like to have start doing all those things that she really loved again, crouch down in front of her. “I’m gonna go to bed,” Aidan said as he leaned over and kissed her forehead, making her bite back another sigh.
“I’ll be there in a minute,” she said, watching as he walked away.
Maybe she should have told him that the doctor cleared her so that they could have sex? Then again, since Roger probably already told him…
She was going to spend the rest of the night overthinking this, Melanie decided with a sigh as she shoved the blankets aside, climbed off the couch, and headed towards the bedroom, pausing to check in on Cody, who was already fast asleep, and found Aidan in bed. After double-checking the baby monitor, Melanie climbed into bed, curled up on her side, and-
“Sorry,” Aidan murmured with a small kiss against the back of her neck when he was forced to shift back away from her when the erection that kept her up most nights accidentally brushed against her bottom.
Biting back a scream of frustration, Melanie climbed back out of bed with a mumbled, “Be right back,” and headed to the bathroom, seriously wondering how much longer it was going to be before she lost it only to groan when she walked into the bathroom.
“Wow, that’s sexy,” she said, unable to help but cringe when she saw her reflection in the bathroom mirror and…was that baby spit up on her shirt? Yes, yes, it was, Melanie thought, rolling her eyes in disgust as she stood there, taking in every soul-crushing detail from her hair that she was pretty sure that she’d washed two days ago, to her man-brows, oversized tee-shirt, baggy sweatpants, and realized that she had some work to do.
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God, she was fucking killing him, Aidan thought reaching down to run his palm over his trapped erection before he realized what he was doing and forced himself to stop, With a groan, he rolled over and couldn’t help but wonder how much longer he would be able to take this before he fucking begged to touch her.
Two months…
Two very long months of chaste kisses and touches and he was ready to fucking explode. When he’d talked to Roger two weeks ago and found out that Melanie had been cleared for sex, Aidan had rushed out of his office, shoved his father out of his way, ran to his car, risked a speeding ticket, and finally made it home in record time only to find her passed out on the couch with Cody fast asleep in his bassinet by her side and realized that he would continue saving money on hot water for a little while longer.
For the past two weeks, he’d been waiting and watching for any hint that she was ready, but so far, nothing. Absolutely nothing. He’d considered bringing it up, but he didn’t want to push her if she wasn’t ready and she definitely wasn’t ready, Aidan thought, biting back a disappointed sigh when he heard the shower turn on.
Resigning himself to another long night, Aidan rolled back onto his side, reminded himself that he had a plan and somehow managed to fall asleep. Sometime later, he woke up when he felt Melanie climb back into bed. When she was settled, he reached for her only to frown when he found himself touching bare skin. That was followed by a groan when he found himself pushed onto his back and Melanie climbing on top of him seconds later.
Her mouth found his as her breasts brushed against his chest and-
“Fuck,” was torn from his lips as she settled on top of him so that he could feel just how wet she was through his underwear when she pushed back against him.
“Are you sure?” Aidan asked even as he grabbed hold of her generous ass that he’d missed and pulled her down against him.
“Please don’t make me kill you,” came the response that had him chuckling until she deepened the kiss and started to move against him.
She felt so fucking good, but he knew that she would feel better in a few seconds, he decided as he snaked his hand between their bodies and reached inside his underwear so that he could pull his cock free. Within seconds, she was rubbing her pussy against the underside of his cock and moaning his name.
Definitely ready, Aidan thought even as he reminded himself that they had to take this slowly. It had only been two months since she had Cody. She was going to be sore and-
They b
oth froze when they heard it, the sound of Cody grumbling in his sleep over the baby monitor. For what felt like an eternity, they both laid there, staring at the baby monitor, waiting to see if Cody was going to wake up or go back to sleep.
“Quick,” Melanie said when Cody fell back to sleep a few seconds later.
Biting back a curse, Aidan wrapped his arms around her and rolled her onto her back, settling between her legs with an, “Oh, fuck…” Aidan groaned long and loud when the tip of his cock slid inside her.
She was so fucking tight, he thought before amending that to tighter seconds later when he was forced to pull back and push back inside. She was definitely tighter than before, Aidan thought as she pulled him back down so that she could kiss him. When she released a pained gasp a moment later, he went still.
“Are you okay?” Aidan asked, pulling back just far enough so that he could look at her.
“It’s fine,” Melanie said, moving to pull him back down for a kiss, but…
He didn’t believe her.
Shit!
“No, no, no, wait! I’m fine. Really, I just…oh, god,” Melanie began to panic when he pulled away only to moan as she threaded her fingers through his hair and spread her legs further apart when he’d pulled out of her so that he could bury his mouth between her legs.
God, he’d missed this, Aidan thought on a groan when he ran his tongue between her slit. She was so fucking soft and sweet, he thought, watching her as he did it again. He’d loved pregnancy sex, loved the way that she couldn’t seem to get enough, and the way that she demanded that he fuck her morning, noon, and night, but he wanted this.
He wanted to be able to watch her as he licked her pussy, wanted to be able to kiss her as he fucked her, wanted to be able to do a hundred different things that he’d never had a chance to do with her without having to worry about hurting the baby. Now that she’d had the baby…
He was going to do everything that he’d imagined doing to her and so much more, Aidan decided, sliding his tongue inside her as he watched her lick her lips hungrily. As she moaned his name, he fucked her, sliding his tongue inside her only to pull it free so that he could run it up to her clit and make her roll her hips, desperate for more.
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Oh, god…
A gasp escaped her as Aidan slid his tongue back inside her, causing her back to bow off the bed only to make her moan his name seconds later when he did it again. She forgot how good this could feel, Melanie thought as her breath caught.
The sex had been good when she was pregnant, but it had also been severely restricted, a bit awkward, and had left her struggling to catch her breath, but now…
God, now she realized what she’d been missing.
She’d never knew that it could be this good before, Melanie thought as she rolled her hips, slowly riding his tongue as Aidan took her hands in his and entwined their fingers together. She’d never had any complaints about sex before, but it had never been this good. She didn’t know how to explain it, wasn’t even sure that it was possible, but as she laid there, closing her eyes as Aidan ran his tongue back over her clit in a swirling motion, she couldn’t help but moan.
For several minutes, Aidan simply licked her, groaning when she rolled her hips against his mouth only to moan when she mumbled his name in a half-plea as pleasure spread through her body and she found herself pulling on his hands, needing him. With a groan, Aidan ran his tongue over her one last time before he allowed himself to be pulled away.
He released her hands so that he could slowly move up her body, kissing a path up her body as she wrapped her arms around him, and-
“God, you feel good, baby,” he groaned as he slid inside her while she slowly exhaled only to bite her lip when it stopped feeling good.
It really hurt, Melanie thought as she buried her face against Aidan’s neck as he pulled back and slowly slid back inside while she laid there, squeezing her eyes shut while she reminded herself that she knew this would happen. It was only temporary, she told herself, biting back a sob and-
“Look at me,” Aidan said softly as he pulled back so that he could look at her as he continued to slowly slide inside her only to pull back after he’d slid a few inches inside her. “We’re going to take this slowly, okay?”
“Okay,” Melanie said, nodding as she released a shaky breath.
“A little at a time,” Aidan promised as he continued moving, sliding a few inches inside her only to pull back and do it again, slowly getting her body used to him again. When he felt her body relax, he would push in a little more, slowly working his way inside her until finally, he was exactly where he needed to be.
“Better?” he whispered as he rolled his hips, grinding his cock inside her in a move that had her spreading her legs further apart for more.
“Yes,” Melanie whispered, pulling him down for a kiss as he continued to tease her, making her want more until she couldn’t take it anymore and-
“God, I love you,” Aidan whispered, sending her over the top as she opened her mouth to tell him that she loved him too only to have her words cut off with a harshly whispered, “Not yet, not until you’re sure,” as she had to wonder what was stopping her from saying it.
Chapter 39
“You’re not ready yet.”
“I’m more than ready,” Aidan assured his father as he closed the small black box that he’d been carrying with him for the past two months, waiting for the perfect moment to ask Melanie to marry him.
Tonight was the night and everything was going to be perfect.
“And the Bradford curse?” his father asked, throwing him a questioning look as he reached over and helped himself to Aidan’s fries.
“Doesn’t matter. She deserves better,” Aidan said because he wasn’t about to let two hundred years’ worth of bullshit ruin this.
He was going to do this right and that meant getting down on one knee and begging the woman that he couldn’t live without to marry him. He was done waiting. He’d been hoping that she realized just how much he loved her by now only to realize that he needed to show her. He’d fucked up every step of the way to this point and he refused to fuck this up, too.
“Bradfords don’t propose,” his father said, getting right to the point.
The men in his family didn’t believe in proposing because proposing meant that you were still thinking clearly and you weren’t out of your fucking mind in love. He loved Melanie. There was no doubt in his mind and as much as he would love to drag her in front of the nearest Justice of the peace and make her his, he couldn’t do that to her. She deserved it all, a proposal, her dream wedding that was going to cost him a fucking fortune, and a romantic honeymoon where he would show her just how much he loved her.
“This one does,” Aidan said, glancing down at his watch and realized that he needed to move his ass if he was going to get out of here early and have a chance to do this right.
“It won’t end well,” his father said, sighing heavily as he helped himself to the rest of Aidan’s fries.
“I can’t fuck this up too,” Aidan said, grabbing his stethoscope off his desk.
“Do you remember when you were little and I told you what happened when I made the mistake of asking your mother to marry me?”
“Yes,” Aidan said because it wasn’t something that he was likely to forget anytime soon.
While most families liked to tell scary stories around the fire, his family liked to share fucked up stories about all those times that a Bradford ignored the curse that had been haunting their family since his great-great-great-great-grandfather Robert made the mistake of pissing off his neighbor and all the fucked up things that happened when they did. He’d heard tales of what happened when Bradfords met the one, made the mistake of proposing, and all those terrifying tales of when they tried to take their wives on a honeymoon before their first anniversary.
When he was a child, those stories use to keep him up at night, having him deciding that he would
never-
“I held back,” his father said, shrugging it off as he moved on to Aidan’s abandoned burger only to add, “Your mother didn’t think it was a good idea to tell you everything. She was afraid of scarring you kids for life or something,” at Aidan’s questioning look.
“How could it have been worse?” Aidan asked as a tingle of apprehension rode up his spine only to dismiss it because everything would be fine. He just needed to make sure that he was careful.
“You know that scar that your mother has across her right palm?”
“Yes,” Aidan said only to swallow hard when his father gave him a pointed look that had him wondering if this-
“I’m sorry, Dr. Bradford,” MaryAnne said, drawing his attention to his office door to find her holding up a patient file, “but you have a new patient waiting for you and she said that it was an emergency.”
“What’s going on?” Aidan asked, following her into the hallway where she handed him the patient file and gestured to the exam room at the end of the hall.
“I don’t know. She wouldn’t say,” MaryAnne said with a helpless shrug.
“Okay, that’s fine. How’s my schedule after this?” Aidan asked over his shoulder as he made his way down the small hallway.
“Your three o’clock appointment had to reschedule,” she said as Aidan glanced down at the file in his hands, noted the “Jane Smith,” on the folder. Frowning, he opened the door and really wished that he hadn’t when he spotted Melanie’s sister sitting on the exam table, holding a paper gown against her chest, and-
“Oops!”
Turned around and left, closing the door behind him when she dropped the paper gown with a feigned gasp and a coy smile, deciding to use this time to make sure that everything was ready for tonight.
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“Don’t even fucking think of it,” Arik bit out only to curse as he ducked out of the way and-
“So, does he know?” Rebecca asked, popping a Hershey Kiss in her mouth as they sat there, watching as Arik made the mistake of ducking left instead of right and-
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