“I look forward to that, Doc.”
*
Remy
“This place is so beautiful, Remy. Can you believe how clear the ocean is?” Harlyn stood in front of the large, open window that overlooked the beach.
Roc had gone all out when he had picked this resort to get married at. All-inclusive and all out extravagant. When Roc did something, he fucking did it. Plus, he had set me up with an amazing setting to ask Harlyn to marry me.
“It’s pretty amazing, babe.”
She glanced over her shoulder at me with a huge smile on her lips. “I still can’t believe Roc paid for all of this.”
“And then Brooks flew us here on his private jet. Gotta say, I could get used to this.” I laid back on the bed and propped my arms behind my head.
“Oh please,” she laughed. “I know all of you guys are chomping at the bit to get back to the garage. These two months of down time kill you.”
She was right. Racing definitely in my blood, but I knew how to take the time to slow down and enjoy life.
“Why don’t you come lay down with me?” I reached under the pillow and palmed the small ring box I had put under it.
Harlyn ran from the window and catapulted herself on to the bed. She landed on top of me, straddling my hips with a huge smile in her lips. “Hello, lover,” she laughed.
“You’re a goofball, Harlyn.”
She pressed a kiss to my lips. “But you love it.”
“I sure do.”
“Now tell me why I needed to come over here. While I love looking at you, I have to take advantage of looking at the crystal clear ocean while I can. We are pretty landlocked back at home.”
“Very true, babe.” I squeeze the box in my hand and took a deep breath. “You know I love you, right?”
“Yep.” She nodded her head. “You better.”
I was just going to go for it. I held up the box and flipped opened the top.
“What the hell is that?” Harlyn gasped.
I grabbed the ring and tossed the box on the floor. I sat up, knocking Harlyn back to sit on her back between my legs. “It’s a ring.”
“Yep.” Her cheeks were flushed pink, and her breathing was short and staccato.
“I love you more than anything in this world, Harlyn. I can’t imagine sharing my life with anyone but you.”
“Yep.” Her eyes darted from the ring to me. “Yep.”
“Will you marry me, Harlyn?”
Her breathing stopped and she froze. “Yep,” she gasped.
“Yep?”
She nodded her head. “Yep.”
“Yep?” I laughed. “Do you have anything else to say, babe?”
“Yep.” She looked panicked and flustered. She swallowed hard and closed her eyes.
“Are you speechless?” I had never seen Harlyn like this. I had figured she was going to be surprised, but I didn’t think she was going to be speechless.
“I love you, Remy. I love you so much I don’t even know what to say other than yep.”
“So you’ll marry me? You’re sure.” Hell, this was more nerve-wracking than I had thought it was going to be.
She grabbed the ring from my fingers and slipped it over her ring finger. “Yep.”
I wrapped her up in my arms and tackled her back onto the bed. I covered her with my body and she wrapped her arms around me.
“You’re gonna marry me, Harlyn.” It wasn’t a question anymore. It was going to happen.
“Yep, as long as Roc doesn’t kill you when you tell him.”
I leaned back and looked into her eyes. “Babe, I asked him before I asked you.”
“Shut up,” she gasped. “And he said you could ask me?”
A huge smile spread across my lips. “Yep. But he did tell me if I hurt you, he would run me over with the racecar ten times.”
She burst out laughing then lifted her hand up to admire the ring. “Then I guess you better not hurt me, Remy, because I’m pretty fond of having you around.”
I pressed a kiss to the ring on her hand. “That’s never gonna happen, babe. I love you.”
Harlyn sighed. “I love you too, Remy.”
*
Jay
“I’m pregnant.”
“I know.”
Delaney jackknifed up and stared down at me. “What the hell do you mean you know? I just got the results from the hospital the day before we left.”
I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her back onto the bed. “Baby, you’ve been eating fluffy nuts the past month.”
“So, they’re good.”
“And also the thing you craved the last time you were pregnant.”
She huffed. “Really, Jay? That is how you knew I was pregnant?”
“That, and you’ve been exhausted. I’m talking coming home from work, sleeping two hours, eating some fluffy nuts, and then going back to bed ‘til the morning.”
She reached up and brushed her fingertips down my cheek. “So, that’s more telling. I thought I was too, but I was afraid to take a test to find out that I really wasn’t.”
“Then what made you finally take one?”
She sighed and closed her eyes. “I got sick the other morning, and I knew it wasn’t anything to do with what I ate.”
“I’m assuming I wasn’t there because otherwise I totally would have heard you calling some dinosaurs.”
She laughed and rested her forehead against mine. “You were gone. I wanted to call you but I didn’t want to bug you about something that might not be.”
“Baby, you gotta know I’m always there for you. No matter what. You know I call you when I’m gone just because I want to hear your voice.”
I did. No one knew that beside Delaney because Frankie and Remy would give me hell about it for the rest of my life. I loved Delaney with everything I had but I drew the line at things that I let be known publicly.
“I know, I just didn’t want to jinx it or anything.”
I sighed and closed my eyes. “You can’t jinx this, baby.”
“But last time, Jay. Last time…” she trailed off.
“Last time, it wasn’t meant to be. It wasn’t anything you did, Delaney. It wasn’t meant to be.”
Delaney still struggled with losing the baby. There were days I can see it weighing down on her and all I could do is let her know I was there.
“And what if this one turns out that it’s not meant to be?”
“Then we try again, Del, but I’m not thinking that way. I’m not thinking that we’re going to lose this one too.”
“But Jay.”
I held her close and pressed a kiss to the side of her head. “There is no but, Del. Your doctor has said that there isn’t a reason why we can’t get pregnant and carry full term. We’re pregnant. We’re having a baby, and there isn’t a damn thing in this world that is going to keep me from being happy.”
She sighed and let me hold her. “What if it’s twins?” she whispered. “I think I might freak if that happens.”
“That might freak me out too, but I’ll still be the happiest guy in the whole world.”