Page 128 of Everything After

“And some freaks, that guy had better watch out,” I remarked, sounding lighter.

“I almost feel sorry for him now,” she admitted. “When the truth comes out, that man is going to be roasted.”

“No more than he deserves for waking my beautiful wife in the middle of the night and putting a frown on her face,” I said. Leaning in, I brushed her lips with mine and she pecked mine back. I slid a hand to the back of her head, then placed my forehead on hers. “Baby, I love you with all my heart and I promise you this is going to be okay.”

Lily nodded, slanted her head and kissed me softly. Pulling away, I had her stand up, stood myself and lifted her up in my arms. “What do you say we have ten minutes in the hot tub? No bubbles, just us relaxing, skin-to-skin, do you think that’ll wash some of the hurt from today away?”

“Definitely,” she agreed, smiling as I carried her out to our back yard. We’d had some trouble with drones a few times, but once we’d gotten the helicopter those appeared to have stopped. To be sure, we’d gotten our hot tub concealed by a covered canopy to ensure our privacy.

Lily took her clothes off and wandered over to the tub, ready to climb into the water.

“Wait,” I demanded. “I want to look at you,” I admitted, scanning her body from head to toe. “I’m a lucky man.”

“Come on, take your kit off,” she said, gesturing toward me.

“Can’t a man just stop, and appreciate what’s mine?”

“You can,” she mumbled, but covered her belly with her hand.

I reached over and gently moved it down to her side. “All of you, Lily. I can never get enough of how you look.”

“I’d like to return the favor,” she muttered, chuckling.

“All this you mean?” I said, sweeping my hand down my front.

“All that,” she agreed, nodding slowly. There was a twinkle in her eyes that had been missing all day until that point, and my heart lifted when I recognized it.

“If you insist,” I remarked while I reached a hand over my shoulder and swept my T-shirt up, then off over my head.

“Better?” I asked, bunching up the cotton garment and tossing it down beside her clothes.

“A bit, but I’d like to see more,” she stated, sounding coy.

“More? How much more?”

“Take your pants off,” she ordered, pointing at my jeans.

“Oh, that sounded so dominant.”

“Hm, you want to be dominated?” she asked, stepping forward and grabbing my belt buckle. I immediately grabbed her ass.

“Not a chance, little wife,” I mumbled, bending forward and pressing a kiss to her neck.

Goosebumps instantly covered her satin skin, and she squirmed right where she stood. “Oh! We’re playing dirty, are we?” she asked playfully before she shoved her hand past my belt and inside my jeans. She wrapped her soft hand around my swollen cock. “Oh, my. What do we have here?” she mused, a wicked grin on her face.

“A gift,” I muttered, biting back a grin of my own.

“You’re just the man who keeps on giving, huh?” she asked, sounding amused. Lust swam in her eyes when her gaze held mine. My heart squeezed tight to know she still wanted me every bit as much as I wanted her.

My cell phone suddenly began to ring, and I groaned. “Ignore it,” I ordered, moving my hand over my jeans and pressed her hand harder to my cock, through my jeans.

Sliding my other hand from her ass to the back of her neck, I pushed her head toward me and took her mouth in a small kiss that turned frantic as our tongues dueled for control. Lily was breathless when she ended the kiss, pulled back from me and unbuckled my belt.

The moment she did this, I stripped it from my jeans, caught her hand and strapped it onto one wrist. Seeing her green eyes darken made my cock strain so hard, I had to stop and unzip my pants.

Lily hurriedly shoved one side of my pants then the other over my ass with her free hand, until my cock sprang free. My cell phone rang again, and I cussed. “Fuck. What’s wrong with people,” I muttered. However, thinking it could be my legal team I fished the device out of my back pocket.

“It’s Drew. What the fuck?” I said, stopping to eye the screensaver, ultrasound image of our baby again. My heart squeezed immediately calming me down before I tossed my phone onto our clothes pile.