Page 25 of Devil's Luck

“Thank you for this amazing life.”

“There is no one else I’d spend it with than you.”

And when I can’t delay the inevitable any longer, I take her kiss. I sweep my tongue across her lips, beckoning them to open and let me in, taking every sigh and breath and making it mine.

After we battle for a while, I lay her down, back to where we were when this conversation started. Her face in my hand, my hand on her belly, and close my eyes.

“You know,” Nola’s sudden giggle makes me peek down at her. “If you would’ve waited any longer to snap me up, you’d be old and gray when this baby pops out.”

“You’re being naughty again, my love.” I growl and tickle her side.

Nola uses her free hand to stop me, then moves my hand to a spot under the curve of her bellybutton. Our boy has settled low and is now do gymnastics, rolling around. “And you wouldn’t have me any other way.”

She’s not wrong at all.

I’m a lucky, lucky man.

THE END!

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