I collapsed against him, utterly spent, and enjoyed the thunderous thumping of his heartbeat against my cheek. He reached up and guided my face to his, and kissed me tenderly, his lips moving leisurely over mine, his fingers pressing into my jaw as he held me to him.
When our breathing leveled and our heartbeats eased, I settled against him again and enjoyed the calmness and comfort of his tender fingers as they trailed up and down my bare back.
“I love you,” I murmured. Then I thought of our baby and I smiled against his warm, naked chest.
“And I love you, angel,” he replied, his deep and masculine voice echoing around the bathroom.
I sat up. It was time to let him know he was going to be a father. I moved and felt him leave my body as I eased across the bath to sit opposite him. The water had cooled, so I turned on the faucet until the water was warmer.
“I’ve got something to tell you,” I said, the butterflies in my stomach taking flight.
“Me, too,” he said. And I was momentarily distracted by him as he washed cum from his cock. It was still hard and impressive.
“What?” I asked, surprised.
His cock disappeared under a layer of soapy bubbles.
“I’m heading up to Kansas City tomorrow. We’re leaving early in the morning.”
“Kansas City?”
“A couple of Kings ran into a tweaker who bragged about killing a couple of Mississippi Kings and an old lady.”
“You think it’s genuine?”
He placed his hands over the rim of the bath and hauled his large body into a more upright position. “We’re going to check it out. It could be. They said he knew a lot of the details. It’s worth checking it out.”
“And if it is?”
His face darkened. “Then I’m going to kill him.”
I didn’t tell him about the baby.
After hearing about his planned visit to Kansas City, the timing didn’t seem right.
So I spent the night with him, silently holding my secret close to my chest, occasionally smiling to myself when I thought about the tiny life growing inside of me. When he got back from Kansas I would tell him.
After dinner, he took me to our bed and made love to me again with an exquisite tenderness. He moved slowly into me, his bulk blanketing me as his mouth and tongue devoured me. He made me tremble with sensation and cry out with pleasure, and somewhere in the back of my mind there was a whisper urging me to tell him about the baby.
But I didn’t.
We fell asleep in one another’s arms, naked and warm, but at eleven o’clock my phone rang, pulling us out of our restful sleep. It was the hospital. Two of the doctors rostered on to work had come down with a bad case of the flu and they needed me to go in.
“Let me drive you,” Cade urged, his voice husky with sleep.
“I will call the security guys. They can follow me.” I kissed him and he wrapped his arms around me. “Plus, you’re leaving early. You need your sleep.”
“I don’t like you leaving so late,” he said.
I kissed his jaw. “I’ll have security with me the whole way.”
He murmured. “I’ll ring them. I want to make sure they see you inside the hospital. What time does your shift end?”
“They only need me until five.”
While I showered and dressed, Cade organized the security detail.
“I’ve told them to make sure they collect you from inside the hospital when you finish,” he said.
I crawled across his body to kiss him goodbye.
“Don’t worry, baby. I’m perfectly safe.”
CADE
I was supposed to leave early but I wanted to see Indy before I left. I didn’t know what was going to happen in Kansas City and I needed to know my queen was behind me in what I was about to do.
I arrived at the hospital a little before dawn. Laura, the cute little blonde receptionist, gave me a smile as I walked through the sliding doors, and when I gave her a nod and a smile, she got all coy on me.
“How you doin’, Laura? Looks like a quiet night.” I glanced around the near-empty waiting room. “You keeping busy with your crosswords?”
She held up the crossword from the paper and smiled sweetly. “Keeps me honest,” she said with a shy smile.
I winked at her and her cheeks went a shade of pink.
“What are you doing here?” she asked. “I thought you’d be taking Indy to breakfast by now.”
“That’s exactly why I’m here, sweetheart. I’m going to take my girl for breakfast as soon as she’s finished.”
Laura looked confused. “She finished an hour or so ago. It’s been quiet, so Dr. Burdett told her to clock out an hour early.”
“Are you sure? Her car is still in the parking lot.”
“Yeah, I’m sure. She said goodbye as she walked out those doors.”