“Oh,” was all Azurdee said as she sat back in her seat.
I tried to calm my beating heart. Dear Lord, please…I’ll do anything you want. Please don’t let him hurt or take her from me.
“What else did Josh say, Scott?” Lark asked, snapping me out of my prayer.
“He told me the girl at the front desk said that she had noticed Jessie sitting there with Trey. She told Josh the only reason she was watching was because she had liked Trey, and he had taken her out a few times, so she was a bit jealous to see him talking to another girl. She heard Jessie telling Trey to stop this before he regretted doing it. She had a line of people checking in, but when she glanced up, she saw Trey had Jessie by the arm, and he was quickly guiding her out of the hotel. She said Jessie looked scared, but the girl didn’t think anything of it at the time.”
Lark slowly looked at me. “If you called the cops, we can’t prove that she’s been kidnapped.”
“Kidnapped!” Azurdee called out from the backseat.
“We can’t prove it unless the front desk girl saw something else. See if they have a security camera and if they will let Josh see it.”
I called Josh back. “Josh, is there any way you can ask to see if they have a surveillance video of Trey and Jessie leaving? Buddy, you are awesome. Call me back as soon as you can.”
I looked at Lark. “Josh had his mother come up to the hotel and start talking legal bullshit. They are both about to watch the video now.”
“Oh god. Oh my god. What if he…the baby…” Azurdee said.
I hadn’t even thought of the baby up to this point. “I’ll fucking kill him,” I whispered.
My cell phone rang, and I answered to hear Josh saying something to his mother.
“Josh? What’s going on?” I asked.
“He had a gun. He had a gun pointed at her side the whole time they walked out of the hotel. Mom is on the phone with the Austin police department right now. You said they were heading to Austin, right?”
I couldn’t talk. My whole world flashed in front of my eyes—Jessie at our wedding and giving birth to our child and sitting on the back porch together in our rocking chairs. She’s my whole world.
“Scott? Scott? Scott!”
I heard Josh, but I couldn’t answer him.
The next thing I knew, Lark took my phone and started talking to Josh. Everything went quiet, and all I could see was Jessie when she had woken up this morning and leaned over to rest her chin on my chest.
“Sometimes, I think I’m dreaming,” I whispered as Jessie looked into my eyes.
The smile that spread across her face caused my stomach to drop just a bit.
“Same here. I can’t believe how happy I am. The wedding, the baby—everything is just falling into place for us…finally!” she said with a laugh.
I ran my hand through her hair, and every now and then, she would let out a soft moan that moved through my whole body.
“Do you want a boy or a girl?” I asked her.
“I want a girl. I mean, a healthy baby would be perfect, boy or girl, but…I would love a little girl. What about you?”
I sat there for a minute or two and thought about it. “A boy would be pretty cool. I could teach him about hunting, riding, the business, how to smile at a girl and melt her panties,” I said, laughing as Jessie hit me in the side. “But a girl…oh man. I’d love to have a little girl to do all that with and just spoil her. I’d make her feel special and always let her know how cherished she is, just like her mama.”
Jessie smiled. “I like that for a name.”
I looked at her funny. “Cherished?”
She giggled. “No. Cherish.”
“Hell no! My child is not going to have one of those hipster names. No way.”
Jessie giggled as she reached under the covers and began stroking my dick. I looked down at her lips as she licked them.