by Janice Lynn
“Yes.” Her moist eyes opened and she smiled at him. “Oh, yes.”
No longer wanting or willing to restrain himself, he pulled her into his arms and kissed her until all the breath had left his body and his head spun.
“I want more babies, Kimberly. I hope that’s okay.”
Her mouth fell open and she stared at him with startled eyes.
“You don’t?” he asked, trying not to let his disappointment show. Kimberly and Ryan would be enough, more than enough, his whole world.
“It’s not that.” She looked uncertain. “It’s just…”
“Just what?”
She met his gaze and gave him a nervous look. “When you said more babies, I realized I haven’t had a period since Boston.”
She looked incredulous she hadn’t realized sooner.
“Since Boston?”
She nodded, watching him nervously.
Life couldn’t be this good. A happy laugh bubbled out of him. “A baby would be wonderful, Kimberly. More than wonderful.”
“You wouldn’t mind?”
“Mind?” He grinned, happier than he’d thought he could be. “I just told you I wanted more babies.”
“I might not be, Daniel. Maybe it would be better if I wasn’t pregnant so we’d have time to get to know one another again.”
“Either way, I’m the luckiest man in the world, Kimberly, because I’ll have you and Ryan. Another baby would just be the icing on the cake.”
“Really?”
“Really.” He kissed her long and hard, barely recalling his son waited upstairs for news of how his proposal had gone. He couldn’t make love to Kimberly on the sofa. Not right now. But soon.
“Let’s go tell Ryan our news.”
Kimberly’s gaze grew nervous. “Do you think he’ll be okay with this? We’re not moving too fast?”
Daniel remembered the box in his pocket. The box he should have opened and given to her already.
He slipped his hand into his pocket and pulled out the velvet-covered box.
“As he helped me pick out your ring and coached me through how I was supposed to tell you how lost I was without you, I think Ryan will be the first to congratulate us.”
When they turned to the stairs, they spotted their smiling son watching them.
When Ryan gave them a sheepish grin, they enveloped him in a group hug, the first of many such hugs for their family.
ISBN: 978-1-4603-5610-4
THE HEART SURGEON’S SECRET SON
© Janice Lynn 2007
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