Page 105 of Live for Me

Suddenly, the most beautiful sound in the world filled my ears, and everything else faded away. My eyes dropped to the floor to find the most gorgeous, chubby little baby girl crawling across the hardwoods, heading straight for me, cackling the whole way.

“NJ, get your little butt back here,” a young male voice chuckled, and not even a second later, Caleb rounded the corner, stopping in his tracks when he saw me.

I gave him a smile, which was quickly directed at the baby girl using the bottom of my dress to help her stand. My heart swelled at the sight of her tipping her head back, beaming at me. She only had three teeth, but God, she might give Beau a run for his money.

Her smile just took my number one spot.

“Hi, pretty girl,” I cooed, ignoring the urge to scoop her up into my arms and blow raspberries in her chubby little neck. She had a head of thick, dark hair like her parents. I could tell she was going to be tall like Valerie, and the longer I stared, the more I realized how much she looked like her. And like her mother, she had the most enchanting green eyes.

NJ cackled again and let go of my dress, standing on her own and clapping.

Beau made a warm sound from behind me. “She’s something, isn’t she?”

“That she is,” I murmuring, unable to pull my eyes from her as she waddled over to the stairs, wrapping her little fingers around the baby gate rods.

“A bah boo!” she said, laughing again.

“Hi, Abbie.”

My head shot up to find her mother stepping into the foyer, bending down and scooping up the baby girl. Valerie smiled at her and then turned that smile on me. “Have you eaten yet?”

“Love how you didn’t ask me if I’ve eaten yet,” Beau rumbled coming to stand at my side.

Valerie’s green eyes pinned him with a look. “I was getting to you.”

“Uh huh, sure.”

I bit the inside of my cheek as Valerie said, “Well come on. If we don’t eat now, the twins will start a riot.” As we passed the kitchen, heading down the hall to the dining room, I heard Mags grunt, “Fucking idiots.”

Harmony snuck in and linked her arm with mine as we made our way down the hall. “You, me, Val. Girl talk after.”

“Girl talk?” I parroted, looking at her.

Her blue eyes narrowed. “Val and I want to hear all about it.”

I looked over my shoulder to find Beau was no longer following us. Then, it was just the three of us in the dining room.

“Hear about what?” I whispered.

Valerie looked over her shoulder as she put NJ in the pink highchair at the corner of the table. “The ‘fuck-it’ moment.”

I blinked and slowly looked at Harmony, finding a sly smile on her lips. “The what?”

Valerie came to us, running a hand through her hair. “You know. The moment Beau’s control finally snapped.”

“The moment when he pulled his head out of his ass,” Harmony added.

“I don’t—”

“Denver’s 'fuck-it' moment with me was when I was about to leave Hallow Ranch for good, and he came flying up the hill on his horse, shouting my name. He hopped off Ranger like a knight in shining armor and kissed me until I was breathless,” Valerie said, sighing at the end of it.

“Enchantress…”

All three of us turned to find the man himself standing at the dining room entrance, wearing a look that would make any woman blush.

Harmony looked away from Denver and said, “My ‘fuck-it’ moment with Mason was—”

“Little Song, for the love of God, what the fuck?” The younger Langston brother appeared beside his brother then.

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