Total pages in book: 54
Estimated words: 50872 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 254(@200wpm)___ 203(@250wpm)___ 170(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 50872 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 254(@200wpm)___ 203(@250wpm)___ 170(@300wpm)
She leans up on her elbow, and I try to look away from her body, but it’s nearly impossible. Even now with her mussed hair and oversized T-shirt, she’s the most beautiful woman I’ve ever looked at.
She sits up, grabs the hem of her shirt, and pulls it over her head. She starts to ramble. “You bought me everything I could possibly need yesterday, but you know what you didn’t get me?”
My mouth is dry, looking at her rounded breasts begging to be touched. “What?” I croak.
“Pajamas. Those were noticeably missing, and you know what I think?”
My hands go to her panty-covered hips, and I drag in a breath. “What? What do you think?”
She leans toward me. “I’m thinking you don’t want me to sleep in pajamas. I mean, you sleep in your underwear. Maybe I should sleep in mine.”
“Fuck.” I raise up on my knees and bring my hands to her cheeks. “I’m all for you sleeping naked next to me… after the doctor gives you the okay to have sex. I won’t be able to resist otherwise.”
“Austin,” she whines. I look at her with surprise, and she throws her hands up.
“What? You think I sound like a child? I know I do, but I need this… I need you.”
I move to sit up on the bed. It’s painful to move with my cock as hard as it is, but I’m not worried about myself in this moment. I’m worried about Ally.
“Our appointment is today. Let’s see what the doctor says because no matter how much I want to be inside you, I won’t do it and risk you and the baby.”
She releases a strangled breath. “Okay.”
I lift her chin up. “Don’t get all up in your head. I’m not saying no because I don’t want you or want this to happen between us. I’m saying no until we know it’s okay and safe for you.”
Her hand goes to my bare chest. “Okay. But what about you? I can take care of you—”
My forehead creases, and my hands clench into fists. “Nope. Get up, let’s go.”
I stand up and walk across the room. When I turn to look at her, she’s sitting up staring at the clock on the nightstand. “Austin, it’s eight in the morning. Our appointment is not until eleven-thirty.”
I put my hand on the door to stop myself from going back to her. In all these years, she’s never reached for me, and mere minutes ago, she was initiating sex. It took everything in me to stop, and even now, I’m on the very edge of control. “I’m going to fix you breakfast, and I’m calling the doctor to move up the appointment.”
“Austin, you can’t do that.”
I laugh because she should know by now I can do whatever I want. “It’s happening. Get ready, baby. I’m going to bring breakfast up and then we’ll go.”
I walk out of the room before I change my mind.
I make a quick meal of eggs, whole wheat toast, and oatmeal with apples and raisins in it. By the time she eats and we both get ready, we make it to the doctor’s office at ten.
We barely get seated in the waiting room and a nurse is calling our name.
The nurse weighs her, takes her vitals, and sends her to the bathroom with a cup.
I’m sitting in the room when she comes to join me. “Everything okay?”
She nods. “Yep, they said Dr. Parks will be in soon.”
She no sooner gets the words out than an older doctor walks in the room. I take in the white-haired man, measuring him on sight. If he’s the one that delivers the baby, I need to know he’s capable. I hold my hand out. “Hello. I’m Austin Blaze.”
He lifts his head up and looks at me through the lower lens of his glasses. “Blaze, huh? Is that why I was notified that Dr. Reynolds would be joining us today?”
“Austin,” Ally protests.
I squeeze her hand reassuringly. “I hope that’s okay with you, Dr. Parks. Since he has an office in Whiskey Run and here in Jasper, we’ll have an option that is close if we need it. Ally wants you to deliver our baby, but I just want to make sure we’re covered no matter what.”
The doctor measures me with a look. “I guess it will be fine. I mean, if you’re willing to pay two doctors for your, uh—”
I cut him off. “Wife. Ally and I are getting married.”
For the first time since he’s laid eyes on me, he gives me a look of approval. “Right. Like I was saying, if you’re willing to pay for two doctors to care for your wife, then who am I to stop you?”
I shake his hand. “I appreciate that, Dr. Parks. Ally speaks very highly of you.”
At that moment, there is a brief knock, and Brandon pokes his head in the door. “Sorry I’m late. Well, of course, I’m not really late. I’m an hour and a half early since the appointment got moved up—with short notice, I might add.”