“I’m not sure I can take more.” I let out a small laugh. He cups my face like he always does, using his thumbs under my jaw to tilt my head back to meet his gaze.
“There is always going to be more. I can’t help myself.” I reach up to grab one of his hands and turn my head to the side to kiss his palm.
“I know.” Reed loves nothing more than spoiling us. I don’t know how many times we’ve lain in bed together and he told me he was going to make sure I never spent one more day of my life worrying. That I’d done enough of that for ten lifetimes and he’d spend his life taking care of me.
At first it was hard to get used to. Reed is so perfect and nothing has ever come easy for me. I was so used to taking care of myself and then Lucas came along and I took care of him too. It was strange to have someone wanting to take care of me for a change. To hand me the world on a silver platter and then look at me like I’d done the same for him by merely breathing.
He leads me towards our private elevator and we step aside as a few movers step off with boxes. He glares at one who he swears was looking at my ass earlier. He thinks everyone is always looking at me. It’s adorable and I’d be full of crap if I didn't admit it was a tiny bit flattering.
We step on together and go down to the first floor of the building. “Lucas is in his room,” I remind him, wondering where we are going. Lucas hasn't left his room since we got here today. It was pretty much all ready to go and Reed had it decorated. I don’t think we’ll be getting him out of there for a while.
“We’re not going anywhere.” He leads me past the front security desk over to a side door where I can see inside an empty store. “We own the building,” he reminds me.
“Trust me. Owning a building is not something I’ll forget,” I laugh.
I’ve gone from living check to check to not having to think about money. It’s all still new to me and I hadn't really wrapped my mind around a lot of it until this move, and there’s a bunch of paperwork to be signed. Seeing my name all over everything next to Reed’s is shocking because it’s not as though we have a prenup. We don't need one. This is forever.
He pulls out a key and unlocks the door. “It’s for you.” He opens the door wide and I step inside “If you want it.” It looks like it used to be a deli. “A little bit of work and it could be a bakery. Hell, it can be anything you want it to be. If you want.”
“If?” I ask, looking around the store.
“It’s up to you, wife.” Again he wraps his arms around me.
“A bakery,” I say. He really does want me to have all my dreams come true. “It might be a lot to take on.” I bite my lip and he turns me in his arms.
“You can do it or not do it. You can be really hands-on or hire people that can do it all. Either way, it’s here. Whatever you want to do, it’s yours.” My eyes sting with tears. “No tears.”
I close my eyes, trying to stop them, and he kisses both of them.
“It’s the pregnancy and you’re being extra sweet.” I slowly open my eyes to stare up at Reed—the man who has changed my world. I don’t know what I ever did to get him, but there’s no way I’m ever letting him go.
“I just want you to have it all.”
“I do have it all, Reed. We have it all. Together.”
Epilogue
Reed
Ten years later…
“Did I ever tell you about the first time I saw you?” I trace my finger across her stomach as the sunshine warms her skin.
We’re at the lake house this weekend and she’s in a tiny bikini I wouldn't let her wear when the whole family is here. It’s just the two of us on the dock since Erin and Devin are watching the kids.
“You mean in the bakery before you bought the place?” She smirks as she raises her sunglasses. “No, you never told me, but I knew you were there.” She lowers them and I sit up to look down at her.
“Wait, you knew about that?” I’m shocked she’s never brought it up.
“Reed, there’s never been a moment when I didn’t feel your eyes on me. Including that first time.” She reaches out and places her hand on my bare chest. “I played it cool because I knew how much I already had on my plate, but damn, it was hard.” Her hand slides down my stomach to between my legs. “Some things never change.”
I move on top of her and pin her to the beach towel we have spread out on the dock. It’s broad daylight and we’re out in the open, but we own all the land around here, including the lake.
“Why didn’t you ever say anything?” I move between her legs and rub my hard cock against her bikini-covered pussy.
She pushes her sunglasses off and then reaches up to cup my face. “Because I knew that moment was special for the both of us. And maybe having our own little secret about it was fun for a while.”
“Ten years.” I lean down and kiss her softly as her legs wrap around me. “Ten years you kept that in your back pocket.”
“You bought the place right after and I had an idea that I may have been the reason why.” Her nails score down my back and I purr like a tiger.
“You’re always the reason why.”
Now it’s her turn to purr as I reach between us and push my swim trunks down. My cock springs free and nudges the edge of her bikini, begging for access. Her knees fall open and I untie the bows at her hips so the material keeping her from me falls away.
In one long thrust I’m deep inside of her and we both groan at the connection. She’s wet and warm and my cock slides easily through her sticky sweet honey. She squeezes me and I groan as I rest my forehead on hers and keep thrusting.
“You’re mine,” I growl, pinning her hands above her head, and she moans. “Since the moment I saw you.”
“Yours,” she agrees. I yank her bikini top to the side and latch on to her tight nipple.
The little bud is hard in my mouth and I grunt as I go deeper and deeper inside her. Fuck, I can’t hold off much longer but she already knows I’m there.
Her hands go to my ass and she pulls me deeper and holds me there. I grind against her and she cries out as my cock throbs inside of her. She clenches around me and I hold still while she wiggles her pussy on me and gets off.
“Reed!” she cries, and it echoes over the water.
The sun shines down on us as my orgasm hits and I cum inside her waiting body. It’s so hard and fast, but we’re connected in such an absolute way that it feels like we’ve been in this moment forever. Time stands still when I’m with her and this quiet moment of our shared love is just another way she stops the world for me.
“I love you,” I say, rubbing my nose against hers and kissing her lips softly.
“I love you more.” She smiles and I shake my head.
“Impossible.”
We end up rolling around and arguing over who loves who the most and I finally settle it when I jump in the water while holding her. She agrees to let me win if only for a moment, but I’ll take it. She might have known about me watching her, but she can’t possibly know what I felt for her the second I saw her. Or what I feel for her today. It’s beyond words. But Jenna and our babies are my soul and I’m whole because of them.