“I forgot to take my pill two days in a row in Aspen.”
He blinks up at me and I can see it takes him a second to compute what I’m explaining to him. As the information and all that it might imply sinks in and the only emotion I can see is pure, manly joy, it’s then—right then—that I really allow myself to fall cataclysmically in love with Colton Maddox.
I remember what Jessie told me, about how Jacob’s reaction when she told him she might be pregnant was happiness, and how it partly clinched her decision to marry him. I understand it now. Even if I’m not pregnant, the fact that Colton not only doesn’t mind and isn’t upset by that, but actuallywantsme to be…it’s a very powerful thing. It’s comfort and it’s safety. Two things I was always starved for in my life, now being poured into it with the kind of force that feels remarkably like he just healed me.
“Do you mean to tell me that my wife might be having mybaby?”
He’s kissing me now and it feels so good to let go. Toallowmyself to love him. To fall, fall, fall.
Colton lays me back on the bed. He’s peeling off mydress, sucking my nipples almost reverentially. “So it’s settled then, Sunshine. No more arguing. My wife and my baby need the absolute best of everything. Lila Danger Sunshine Bailey Maddox, you need to be ready to be treated like the perfect angel you are. There isnothingyou can’t have.”
“Cole?”
“Yeah?”
“I know you contacted Eleanor Jaeger again.”
“Yeah, I did. Sorry about that, princess, but everyone needs to know how talented my wife is. We’re going to turn your business into the next Big Thing.”
“I got another sixteen hundred orders this morning.”
“Yeah? Well, shit. We’re going to have to hit the ground running tomorrow. The jet will be waiting for us at noon and I told Eleanor we’d meet with them on Monday.”
“That’s really taking another liberty, Maddox.”
“You’re my wife so I can take all the liberties I want if they mean your life is about to explode with all your dreams coming true. I’m about to take another major liberty right now, baby girl, so get ready for me. Obey your husband and lie back.”
He’s got my dress fully off now and before I can continue to protest, he licks his way down my body, kissing my pussy, eating me hungrily, lovingly. Feasting on my pleasure like he’s so good at doing.
“Cole,” I gasp.
“Yes, wifey?”
“Come here. I need you.”
“I’m yours, baby girl.” Colton lays himself over me, pushing his thick length all the way inside me, filling me completely with his hot, bursting beauty. “And you’re mine.”
“Cole?”
“Yeah?”
I hold his face and he’s quiet for a moment, staring into my eyes as he possesses me fully and completely. I gasp the words and he says them at the same time.
I love you.
It feels so good to finally say it.
EPILOGUE
Five weeks later
Manhattan, New York
“Do you,Lila Jade Bailey Maddox, take Colton Benjamin Maddox to be your lawfully wedded husband—again?”
“I do.”
“Do you, Colton Benjamin Maddox, take Lila Jade Bailey Maddox to be your lawfully wedded wife?”