Page 74 of Decidedly With Baby
The smile spreading on Josh’s face? It was enough to power the entire San Francisco Bay area and Sausalito during a poweroutage.
I reached up and kissed him, a brief brushing of lips. “And thank you for the weekend. I’m guessing that was so you could dothis?”
My gaze fell on the single bookshelf—and two classic model cars on the middleshelf.
Josh had decorated the room to reflect Noah’s parents. Except one thing wasmissing…
“Why isn’t there anything to do with hockey in here?” Iasked.
“Because it didn’t feel right. My father practically shoved hockey down my throat to the point where I resented the sport. It didn’t feel right to do the same to Noah. If he wants hockey stuff in his room, then great. But that will be hischoice.”
Did you feel it? The ground trembling? That was me falling completely and utterly and irreversibly in love withhim.
I bit my lip, to keep the words from tumbling out. I didn’t want to scare him away, and I was positive the L-word would do exactlythat.
“How can he not love the sport?” I asked. “He and I will be at all your games, cheering you on, showing you how proud we are ofyou.”
Noah kicked in agreement and Ismiled.
For a second, I thought I saw love in Josh’s eyes and my pulse picked up, pounding in my ears. But then the love disappeared as quickly as it hadcome.
My hormones and I really needed to have a heart-to-heart. The last thing my poor fragile heart asked for was to imagine things that weren’ttrue.
Josh bent closer, his breath a kiss against my ear. “So, about my favorite black bra andpanties…”
And suddenly I forgot how tired I hadbeen.
Sex when your boyfriend is the sweetest manalive?
Bestsex.
Ever.
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Holly
Josh smiled at me,the Christmas tree lights glowing softly on his face. Did I mention he wasshirtless?
And wearing only hisbriefs?
Then he got down on oneknee.
Beep. Beep. Beep.Beep.
Mentally cursing the bloody clock, my eyes still closed, I slammed my hand around my nightstand…until I murdered thenoise.
And since it had prematurely ended the dream, I considered murdering the clocktoo.
I pushed myself out of bed—not that my body agreed with that thanks to my cold that had begun the other day. But it didn’t matter what my body wanted. I had to go into work for a few hours before I was officially off for the next threedays.
Why wasn’t I spending Christmas with my family in Australia? I mean, ignoring the part about my mum being mad at me. Flying that far when you were thirty-three weeks pregnant was never a good idea. Instead, I would be spending Christmas dinner with Trent and Erin’s family. And yes, Kelsey would be there too, which was an addedbonus.
Where was Josh going to be? He was flying to Connecticut in a few hours to spend Christmas with hisgrandparents.
I swear by the time I was finished showering, there was barely any hot water left. On the bright side, I was temporarily able to breathe again because of the steam. Always an addedbonus.
I changed into my clothes and groaned as I caught sight of myself in the mirror. My skin was pale, but my nose still looked like it could’ve guided Santa’s sleigh tonight—if Rudolf hadn’t already signed up for thejob.
