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TWENTY-THREE

GAGE

Could she be pregnant already?

I stand under the hot spray of the shower and try to do the mental math of how long we’ve been having unprotected sex.

She bought the tests so she must have some kind of suspicion, right?

Why does the thought of her being pregnant not freak me out?

Shouldn’t it? I mean, we have a four-month-old and are actively not preventing another child.

I know she didn’t birth Zoe and that we aren’t working with that typical “You shouldn’t have kids so close together because of the health of the mother” situation.

I don’t think I’ve ever wanted a woman to be pregnant with my child, ever.

Until now.

I’ll get on my knees and pray for the first time in a long time if it means she’d be pregnant.

“Gage?” Ale calls from our bedroom. “Zoe’s asleep. I’m going to take some meat out for dinner tomorrow and I’ll be back up.”

“Okay, I’m almost done in here.”

Finishing up, I turn the water off and get out, wrapping a towel around my waist. I step out into the bedroom to find her waiting for me on the edge of the bed. I don’t even think before the words just spew out. “Please take a test. It’s killing me.”

“Gage… I don’t want you to get your hopes up. I don’t feel any different.” She looks at the floor, and I’m having none of that.

“Eyes up here, Hermosa .” When her beautiful brown eyes find mine again, I give her a smile. “If it’s negative, then it’s negative. It just means we get to practice some more. It just means that it wasn’t the right time.”

“Okay. I’ll take one. But,” she gets up and stops in front of me. “I want you naked in bed waiting for me.”

“You don’t want me in there?” Isn’t that what you’re supposed to do?

Wait it out together.

“I’ll bring it out and we can read it together.” Ale shakes her head. “I don’t need you watching me pee.”

“Baby, I’m going to watch our babies come out of you someday.”

Alejandra:

I roll my eyes and head into the bathroom and grab the box, reading the instructions. Pee on the stick and wait three minutes.

After I put the cap on the test, I shout to Gage. “Set a timer for three minutes.” I slide the test back into the wrapper, wash my hands, and walk back into the room with it. “Now we wait.”

“I know a way we can keep occupied.” I set the test down on his bedside table and he pulls me onto his chest, his hands framing my face as he kisses me. This is the perfect distraction. “Open up for me, Ale.”

My lips part, and his hot tongue caresses mine, the kiss leaving me breathless.

Gage flips me so that I’m under him. “Now, you are wearing too many clothes.” He pulls my shorts off, taking my underwear with them.

He’s naked and inching lower, down to the apex of my thighs, leaving a trail of wet kisses from my stomach down to my clit.

The shrill ring of the alarm pulls my attention from what he’s doing. A sharp smack on my clit has me moaning and turning back to him. “Let me make you come first. Then we’ll look at the test. Okay?”

“Yes… make me come, Gage.” I nod, watching him reach over and turn the alarm off.

“Good, now lie back and let me feast on my wife’s pretty cunt.”

His hand presses against my chest, pushing me back.

My head hits our pillows and I feel his tongue glide down my entrance.

Pushing inside me and then back up to my clit with featherlight flicks with the flat of his tongue.

My breath catches as I look down and find his face buried between my thighs, completely focused on making me come.

Gage moans as he sucks on my clit, and that sound alone makes my eyes roll back.

Listening to Gage eat my pussy is like audio porn, and the absolute best kind. I could record him doing this and the man would make so much money because he sounds so fucking sexy doing it.

“Fuck, Hermosa .” He pulls back and sticks two of his fingers in his mouth, getting them wet and taking them back out. “You taste so fucking good. I’ll be dreaming of the taste of you when I’m deployed.”

My back arches off the bed as he slides his fingers inside me. “Oh, God… Gage.”

“Who are you crying out for, Esposa ? Me or God?” His fingers rub against my g-spot and I can already feel the sensation building. “Because I don’t think God’s the one between these thighs, making you moan right now.”

“You… I… You, Gage.” The tears cloud my vision as he moves his fingers faster.

“That’s it. Come for me, Ale. Fucking soak my hand and face.” Gage’s tongue is back on my clit and all it takes is two strokes of his tongue to send me over the edge.

“Oh, fuck…” And the sound of his slurping and his fingers driving into me as my release soaks his hand, face and our bedding has me lost in a haze.

“Fuck, baby. I want nothing else in my life, just you and your perfect pussy.” He pulls himself up on his elbows, his face drenched in me. “Well, you and all our babies.”

“Time to check the test.” I pant, still a little out of breath. “You’re going to need to grab it because I don’t think I can move right now.”

Gage smirks as he leans over my face, bringing his lips to mine. “It means I did my job as your husband. Made you come so good you can’t walk after.”

“Only you have ever made me come like this.” Nobody could ever compare to Gage. He makes every guy I’ve ever been with a laughable experience.

“Well, you’ve erased anyone I’ve ever been with.

You are peak perfection, pretty girl. When I say I’m obsessed with you and this pussy, you better believe it.

” He reaches for the test on the table and lies down next to me.

I snuggle into his side and he holds it up before us.

I kiss right over his heart and I can feel it beating wildly, probably feeling the same thing I am.

Nervous.

Excited.

Scared shitless.

“Ready?” He asks, gripping the end of the test. I nod and he pulls it out.

“It’s backwards. Flip it over, Gage.” I let out a snicker.

He flips the test over and we both hold our breath.

My chest constricts, and I can feel the moisture building in the creases and I try to hide the sniffle.

Only one line.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt disappointment like this before. I didn’t even know I wanted it this much, but this feeling inside tells me I do. I grab the test from him and head straight to the bathroom.

“Ale,” Gage’s voice follows me. “It was a long shot that you’d get pregnant the first try, Hermosa . You know that, don’t you?” I flick the bathroom light on and I stare at the test, almost willing that second line to appear.

Come on.

Please.

“I know.” I whisper. I know.

“We can try again.” Gage whispers in my ear as his hands grip my hips and pull me back against his chest.

“I just wanted… to be pregnant before you deployed again. I know that sounds crazy.” Because it is crazy. Especially since I would do all the hard stuff alone with no help.

“It’s not crazy. I wanted you pregnant before I deployed too.” He sighs, kissing my shoulder. “Then maybe you’d be too busy to miss me.”

“It would make me miss you even more.” I turn around and hold his face in my hands. “Anytime you leave this house, I miss you.”

“Same, pretty girl. I probably drive the guys crazy in my unit now with how much I talk about you.” He leans in, kissing me, gripping my thighs, picking me up, and sitting me on the vanity. “I’ve been called pathetic a few times.”

I kiss his neck, careful not to get too carried away. No marks. “You’re not pathetic, amor .”

“Oh, I totally am. I’m so pathetically in love with you, Alejandra.” He takes the test out of my hands, tossing it in the trash, and picks me up, his lips back on mine. “And I’ll gladly accept it, because it means I have you.”

“You’ll always have me, Gage. Until the end.” I kiss his forehead.

“Until the end,” he whispers as he lays me down on the bed and covers us up with the comforter. “Let’s just sleep, pretty girl. Tomorrow’s Friday and then we’ll have the whole weekend to make a baby.”

Gage turns off the bedside lamp and wraps his arms around me, and I slowly fall asleep to the sound of his breath on my neck.