“Me either, but we have to.”

Jeff pulled away and winked at me. “But we can do other things.” He raised his eyebrows.

He slowly pulled off my shorts, and then he started to kiss the bottom of my leg, making his way up. When he kissed right above my panty line, I let out a soft low moan. He moved up to my stomach.

He looked up and smiled at me. “Sit up, Ari, and let me take off your shirt, baby.”

I did what he’d said. I lay back down on my side as he began to take off his pants and shirt.

“Jeff…there ain’t no easy way to say this, honey, but…you stink.”

He laughed as he used his fingers to gently run along my panty line. I closed my eyes and bit down on my lower lip. I grabbed on to him and started to move my hand up and down…feeling him getting harder by the second.

“Ari…” he whispered in my ear.

He slid his hand down into my panties and gently touched my clit. I bucked my hips into his hand and let out a moan. I moved my hand faster on his dick, his breathing got heavier. The moans coming from his mouth were turning me on even more. All he had to do was move a little faster on my clit, and I would be sure to come.

“Oh god, Ari…faster, baby.”

I went faster and squeezed him tighter, and the moment he started to say my name, I came. Jeff captured my cries with a kiss as he rolled on top of me. Just to feel his body on mine was pure heaven.

He pulled away and smiled. “Four weeks?”

I laughed as I nodded. “Four weeks.”

Jeff leaned down and kissed me gently on the lips. He whispered, “I love you, Ari. So damn much.”

When I heard Grace starting to whimper, I let out a small laugh.

“My sweet baby girl…giving her mommy and daddy their time together,” Jeff said with a wink.

He jumped up and headed into the bathroom. As he turned on the shower, he called out, “Close your eyes, babe. I’ll be two seconds, and then I’ll grab her and take care of her while you get some sleep.”

“Oh, thank you, Jeff!” I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep, dreaming of quilts, oak trees, and making love to Jeff. Pure heaven.

I sat in my car and took a deep breath. I had dropped Alex off with Grace and Jack, and I’d made sure again that it was okay if they kept her for the night. I hated leaving her all night, but I wanted to spend some time with Gunner.

I wasn’t expecting him to be back home so soon, but with Jeff and Josh both helping him tag the cattle, they must have finished up sooner than expected.

Why in the hell am I so nervous about telling him that I’m pregnant? It’s not like we weren’t trying.

I looked at myself in the small mirror. Oh man, I look like shit. My hair was pulled up in a ponytail, and I was wearing an old Longhorn T-shirt with cutoff blue jean shorts. It was not how I wanted to greet him.

After I opened the car door, I slowly got out and made my way into the house. It was so quiet, but I could hear our shower running. I smiled as I got an idea. I quickly made my way to the bedroom, and then I started to take off my clothes as fast as I could. When I heard him humming in the shower, I had to smile. I loved it when he would sing.

I opened the bathroom door, and I walked into the bathroom, naked. I peeked in and saw his back was facing me. I stepped inside the shower and wrapped my arms around him.

“Hmm…I was wondering where you were.” He lifted up my left hand and kissed my wedding ring.

“I dropped Alex off at your parents’ house…for the night.”

Gunner turned around and smiled at me. “No shit?”

I laughed and nodded. “No shit!”

His eyes turned from love to lust in a matter of seconds, and the ache between my legs grew stronger. He reached up and pushed a piece of my hair behind my ear as he gazed into my eyes.

“I’m going to make love to you all night long.” He gave me that damn crooked-ass smile of his.

“Drew?”

He was kissing my neck. “Yeah, sweetheart?”

“May third.”

“Mmm…what about it?” He continued to kiss my neck as he moved his hands all along my body.

“It’s, um…well…it’s kind of an important day.”

He pulled back and looked at me. “Oh yeah? Why’s that?”

“’Cause it’s the due date.”

He looked at me, confused. “Due date for what?”

I picked up his hand and placed it on my stomach. It took about ten seconds for it to click.

He gave me the most beautiful smile. “Ells…you’re pregnant?”

I nodded. He let out a yell as he picked me up and hugged the shit out of me.

“Oh god, Ellie, you’ve just made me the happiest man on earth!”

He pushed me up against the wall and looked into my eyes.

“I’m going to make love to you, sweetheart…slow, sweet love to you.”

I bit down on my lip and wrapped my legs around him. As I felt him slowly enter my body, I put my head back against the shower wall and lost myself…body and soul…in his lovemaking.

I sat on the back porch, wrapped in a blanket, listening to the night sounds. I closed my eyes and thought back to the one moment that had changed everything. It was the first time Gunner had put his hands on me and took me to heaven and back.

I placed my hand on my stomach and silently thanked God for this baby. When I heard the back screen door open, I looked over to see Gunner walking out onto the back porch…butt-ass naked. I let out a laugh and shook my head.

“It’s a damn good thing that it’s three in the morning. You never know when Garrett will be walking up.” I smiled at him.

He winked and sat down next to me on the swing. He wrapped himself up in the blanket with me. “What are you doing out here, Ells?”

“Thinking.”

“Thinking about what?”

“How blessed we are. How happy you make me.”

“You make me happy, too, Ellie. More than you’ll ever know.”

“I know we should probably wait to talk about this, but I’m thinking after we have this precious little gift…” I glanced over at him as he looked at me. “Well, I’m thinking two is the perfect number. What about you?”

He put his arm around me and pulled me closer to him. “Two sounds like the perfect number.”

I slowly let out the breath I had been holding. Why was I so scared to tell him that? “Gunner? Will you do something for me?”

“Anything, sweetheart.”

“Will you take me inside and make love to me again?”

The next thing I knew, he was picking me up and carrying me back inside. On our way to the bedroom, he hit his elbow on the doorjamb, whacked my head on the bedroom door, and stepped on one of Gus’s toys. By the time we made it to our bed, Gunner was swearing, and I was laughing. He threw me on the bed and crawled on top of me.

“Oh, Mrs. Mathews, so you thought that was funny, huh?”

I nodded and giggled. “Yep!”

As Gunner kissed my neck and moved down to my nipples, I looked over and saw Gus standing in the doorway to our bedroom. I tried to ignore him, but I couldn’t.

“Gunner…”

“I know, baby…I want to sugar stamp you all over your body.”

Wait. What? “Sugar stamp?”

Gunner looked up at me with that smile of his. “Yeah…kiss you with my lips all over your body. Sugar stamp you.”

I tried really hard not to laugh, but I couldn’t help it. “Oh. My. God. I love you, Drew Mathews!”

He moved up and captured my lips with his as he slid his hand down and spread my legs open. He slowly began to touch on my clit. When his lips pulled away from mine, he made his way back down to my nipples. I looked back over to the doorway, and Gus was still sitting there…just staring at us.

“Um…Gunner.”

“Hmm…Ellie.”

“No…I mean…Gunner…” I tapped his shoulder.

“What? What’s wrong?”