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“I’m carrying two children. I’m always hungry,” she said with a giggle.

“Then come with me,” I said as I offered her my arm. “The day isn’t done yet.”

A bag of her former clothes was handed to me before we waved goodbye to the spa staff. I helped Natasha to the car, then helped her up before we started on our journey. We traveled across down to this wonderful restaurant I had booked for us, then I led her through the mass of people and straight into the back.

There was a private room with a table set for two. Candles dancing everywhere and a menu tailored specifically for us.

“Does this menu say ‘cheesecake ice cream’?” Natasha asked.

“Made in-house by the chef himself,” I said with a grin.

She threw her head back and laughed, filling the room with the most beautiful sound this universe had to offer.

“What in the world did I do to deserve all this? I’ve been a bump on a log for four months, Carter.”

“What you did was you came into my life and turned it on its head. You showed me there was another path for my life. Another path for my children’s lives. You’re growing two of the most precious treasures in the world to me. That is why you deserve all of this,” I said.

I watched tears rise to Natasha’s eyes as I reached out and took her hand. I brought it to my lips to kiss, watching as goosebumps ricocheted up her arm. The menu was already set for us and all we had to do was sit.

Sit, and wait, and enjoy what was brought to us.

“This is perfect,” Natasha said breathlessly. “Thank you so much for today.”

“And to think, we still have two more days of this,” I said.

“What? You gonna rent out the city so we can play a massive game of paintball?” she asked.

“I’m sure I could probably arrange that, but no. I’m not.”

“Then what in the world could you possibly have saved after a day like this?”

I felt a grin spread across my cheeks as Natasha furrowed her brow.

“Carter? What did you do?” she asked.

“I fell in love with you,” I said. “That’s what I did. And I’m going to show you how much I love you. Over, and over, and over again.”

And the blush that tainted Natasha’s cheeks sent my cock pulsing for her.

Twenty-six

Carter

I was sitting at my work desk with my head in my hand. It had been a long fucking day of board meetings and investors complaining and stocks falling. The economy was as volatile as I had ever remembered, and it was taking a lot of manpower in order to reassure people things were going to be okay. That we weren’t plummeting into another Depression and that the stock market would recover. I kept reassuring our investors that they would see the profit they were expecting by the end of the year, but somehow they expected me to get that to them now.

I really needed to hire someone to keep those overeager bastards at bay.

I was filling out paperwork when my cell phone rang. Which could only mean that my nanny needed something. Great. What the hell had the kids done now?

Because they had been acting out a lot during the last month of Natasha’s pregnancy.

“Hello?” I asked.

“Mr. Carter! Mr. Carter!”

“Isabelle. What is it? What’s going on?”

“It’s Natasha. She’s… her water… it-”

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