“I, uh…”
“Answer me!”
“Apparently, yes. I went to the doctor today. I thought it was the flu.”
He waved the pamphlets in front of her face. “No abortion, Paige. Don’t even think about it. I won’t let you.”
“But Jacob—”
He began pacing back and forth next to the bed, clenching his fists. “No. I went through this once before and I’m not going through it again. This is the reason I kept drinking myself into a stupor.”
“Over someone being pregnant?”
“Yes. I got a girl in town pregnant. We talked about abortion because she didn’t want the baby, but I begged her not to. She did it anyway and told me two days later. The guilt drove me to drink. My child would have been born by now.”
“God, Jacob. I’m sorry. I didn’t know.”
He raked his fingers through his hair, dislodging his cowboy hat behind him. “You can’t abort it, Paige. Please.”
“I wanted us to talk about this. It wasn’t planned. Hell, I was on birth control, but I missed a couple of days right around the time we were together last.”
“I don’t want to talk about it. I love you. I haven’t stopped loving you and I’ll love a baby we made together no matter what the circumstances.” He pulled her to her feet and wrapped his arms around her as he buried his face in her hair. “Baby, please don’t abort my child.”
“I won’t, Jacob. I promise, I won’t.”
He pushed her back, cupped her face between his hands and said, “Marry me.”
“What?”
“Marry me, right now. Today. Whenever. I don’t care. I want us to be a family.” His eyes brimmed with tears. “I love you.”
“Are you serious?”
“Yes I’m serious. What do I have to do to prove it to you? I’ve been miserable the last two months. Do you have any idea how many times I’ve picked up the phone to call you before putting it back down?” He placed a small peck of a kiss to her lips before he continued, “A million times, that’s how many, but I knew you needed time to get past your doubts.”
Tears rolled down her cheeks and he brushed them away with his thumbs. Damn hormones. “You still love me?”
“More than anything. Say you’ll marry me, please?”
“Yes. Yes, I’ll marry you.”
“What about all the guilt you’ve been feeling?”
“I sat down and had a long talk with both my parents at the cemetery this afternoon when I returned from the doctor’s office and I realized it wasn’t my fault they died. Both instances were controlled by someone much higher than I am. I just hope I can adopt your family. Do you think there is room for one more?”
“Oh, hell yeah! My mom already loves you and I’m sure my dad will become like a second father to you. They’ll spoil any baby we have together like they spoil their other grandchildren.”
“Terri had her baby?”
“Yeah, another little boy. They have two now.”
He leaned in, taking her lips in a panty melting kiss obviously meant to break any resistance she might have had to keeping his baby or marrying him. Not that she planned to resist either situation. She loved him and wanted to be with him always.
As their kiss ended, she stepped back. “I want a wedding.”
“Okay.” He stepped toward her.
“We can plan something quick. At my father’s church.” She stepped back again.
He moved forward. “Anything you want, baby.”
“A ring.”
“We’ll go buy one right now. I have money saved up. It might not be huge, but you can pick what you want.”
“I don’t want a huge ring, Jacob. Whatever you think is appropriate, I’ll love.” Her knees hit the bed. “Can we make love now?”
“I thought you’d never ask, but I thought you had a headache?”
“I feel a hundred percent better knowing you love me and want this baby.”
“More than anything in this world.”
“How do you feel about a dog?”
“Dog?”
“The big yellow one. He’s part of the bargain.”
“I love animals so I don’t see why we couldn’t use another protective member of the family around here.”
Epilogue
Moonlight caressed her skin through the gauzy curtains of the cabana. Jacob slowly slid his fingers from the curve of her hip to the edge of her breast as she sifted the hair on his chest through her fingertips.
“I love you.”
“I love you too.”
“I wish we could stay like this forever, but unfortunately, we have to go home tomorrow.”
“I know,” she whispered, her lips caressing his chest.
His cock hardened even though they’d just finished making love. God, I’m insatiable around her. Good thing she’d married him a week ago.
The wedding was a small, intimate affair at her father’s church with the preacher who’d done her father’s eulogy performing the ceremony. Only the church members, her friends from the pre-school and a few dozen family and friends of the Young’s were in attendance. It still filled up the little church with the white steeple.
Paige had worn her mother’s wedding dress. She looked like a princess in the stark white gown with the beautifully beaded bodice and skirt.
His father had walked her down the aisle after Paige had insisted she needed him to be her fill-in father. They had a great little discussion just the two of them about a father’s love. A discussion he wasn’t privy to except to know they’d talked. His father had tears in his eyes when he’d handed her over to Jacob at the altar. Jacob knew there would be bond between his wife and his father, from that day forward, no man would ever break and he loved his father even more for becoming that for her.
“What are you thinking about?”
“Our wedding.”
“Why?”
“You were beautiful.”
“Thank you, but you cut a pretty handsome cowboy in your tux jacket, black jeans and boots. I loved the black Stetson too. Wow.”
“Should I fuck you with just my hat on?”
“Would you?”
He roared with laughter. “Anything you want, darlin’.”
She crawled on top of him, straddling his hips. “I want you. Like this. Right now.”
His cock was at full attention. “I could go for that.”
She eased her pussy down his cock a slow inch at a time until he was fully inside her. “God, I love how you feel inside me.”
“I love how you surround me with your heat. Ride me, baby.”
She lifted her body until only the head of his cock still rested inside her. She made several shallow dips that had him panting his need.
“You’re teasing me.”
“Uh-huh.”
“Wench.” He quickly rolled her over onto her back, pushed her legs up until the bend of her knee rested over his forearms and shoved his cock inside her. The heat of her pussy was his undoing. He couldn’t keep himself from pushing so deep that she growled low in response. He loved when she did that.
“Please, Jacob.”
“Please wait, babe?”
“Oh God, no. Don’t wait. Fuck me just like that.”
“Your wish is my command.” He fucked her so hard she had to brace herself against the headboard. Luckily they were in a small independent cabana where they had no neighbors. They had been kind of loud in their love making over the week they’d been there. If she wasn’t already pregnant, he surely would have made her that way this week.
He felt her pussy quiver around his cock. With his thumb against her clit, he drove her into a screaming orgasm as she cried his name out in between panting breaths.
He slowed his thrusts.
“No, God, don’t stop. Please.”
“More.”
“Hell yes. More.”
He pulled out much to her whimpers of need, flipped her over so she was on her hands and knees and shoved back inside.<
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“Yes, yes.”
“I don’t want to hurt you or the baby.”
“You won’t. Please, Jacob. God, please.”
He reached around to pinch her nipple between his thumb and finger, knowing the pain would send her over the edge again.
“Oh yes.”
The sucking sounds their bodies made as he fucked her drove his desire to screaming proportions. He knew he wouldn’t last much longer, but he wanted to make her come one more time. “Do you have another one in there for me?”
“I don’t think I can.”
“Sure you can,” he said, dragging his finger through the wetness between her legs to clasp her clit in a heavy pinch.
She exploded again, coating his cock in cum and bringing him to a moaning, thrashing of the hips orgasm and probably killing off a few brain cells in the mix.
His body shook from the force of his release as he eased down beside her and drew her against his side. “You are magnificent.”
“You’re pretty good yourself there, handsome.”
They lay side by side quietly for several minutes before he spoke again. “What do you want the baby to be, a boy or a girl?”
“I don’t really care as long as it’s healthy.”
“You know what I want?”
“What?”
“A beautiful little girl who looks like her mother.”
“You’re gonna make me cry.”
“No crying.”
She swiped at the tears rolling down her cheeks. “You know I can’t help it, Jacob. I’m such a mess these days with this pregnancy.”
He laid his hand on her slightly rounded belly. “Baby, I love you more every day and if that means putting up with a few tears, then so be it.”
“I love you with all my heart. I hope you’re happy.”
“I’m ecstatic! I can’t believe how great my life as turned out. I have a beautiful wife, a new baby on the way, a good job, we’re working on building our own house on my piece of land, and my investments guided by my brother Jeremiah, are turning into real moneymakers. Who could ask for more?”
“Um, Jacob?”
“Yeah, baby.”
“How would you feel about twins?
*The End*
About the Author
Sandy Sullivan is a romance author, who, when not writing, spends her time with her husband Shaun on their farm in middle Tennessee. She loves to ride her horses, play with their dogs and relax on the porch, enjoying the rolling hills of her home south of Nashville. Country music is a passion of hers and she loves to listen to it while she writes.
She is an avid reader of romance novels and enjoys reading Nora Roberts, Jude Deveraux and Susan Wiggs. Finding new authors and delving into something different helps feed the need for literature. A registered nurse by education, she loves to help people and spread the enjoyment of romance to those around her with her novels. She loves cowboys so you'll find many of her novels have sexy men in tight jeans and cowboy boots.
Other Books by Sandy
Love Me Once, Love Me Twice (Montana Cowboys 1)
Before the Night is Over (Montana Cowboys 2)
Two for the Price of One (Montana Cowboys 3)
Difficult Choices (Montana Cowboys 4)
Doctor Me Up (Montana Cowboys 5)
Gotta Love a Cowboy
Country Minded Cougar
Taming the Cougar
Meet Me in the Barn
Trouble with a Cowboy
Stakin’ His Claim (Behind the Chutes 2)
Forever Kind of Love (Five Hearts Anthology)
Love After All (The Call of Duty Anthology)
Make Mine a Cowboy (Cowboy Dreamin’ 1)
Healing a Cowboy’s Heart (Cowboy Dreamin’ 2)
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