Love of a Lifetime (12 page)

“I’m so sorry, sweetheart.”

Her lips thinned as she shook her head and his heart clenched painfully at her rejection.

“I should have known it was
her.
”  She spat, her voice thick with emotion.  “She is an evil, evil woman.  She tried to have you murdered!”

He stayed silent, not knowing what to say to her at this point.  She turned to him and grasped his face in both hands.

“I want to have a baby.”

He blinked. 
Well, that was way out in left field.
  Maybe the trauma of the whole thing has skewed her judgment.

“Oh, stop looking at me like that!  I mean it!  I’m tired of waiting.  This whole…” she waved her arms around emphatically, “
thing
has really opened my eyes.  You have been very selfish William Bradshaw!  Our entire marriage has been about you and what you want.  Well, now I’m telling you what
I
want, and that is a family.  You can have your career and do whatever you want with it, but no longer will you deny
my
needs and what I need is a mini us to love and to cherish!”

He blinked again, torn between asking ‘
Are you sure?
’ and grabbing her up and shouting ‘
Let’s get started!
’  Finally, he settled on, “You are the love of my life, Carla.  Anything you want is yours.”

His lips came crashing down on hers and he kissed her with all the pent of longing from the months she was away.  He meant what he said.  He would give her anything she wanted so long as she stayed right here with him.

And a baby?
  Hell, yes.  He was definitely on board with creating a child with her.  Then another thought occurred.  He tore his mouth away from hers.

“What about your birth control?”  He asked as he swept her hair behind her ear.

“Consider that officially over with as of today.”

He looked at her with all the love in his heart.  “You know we won’t get pregnant right away.”

She gave him a saucy smile.  “Yes, well, practice makes perfect doesn’t it?”

An explosion of arousal swept through his body, his cock already as hard as granite.  “Yes.  It does indeed, sweetheart.  It does indeed.”

About the Author

             
Emma Delaney is a pen
name,
the real author resides in small town America where she is a full time mom and nurse.  When she is not working a twelve hour shift taking care of sick and grouchy people or chasing her ornery son around, she likes to sit back and relax with a good book.

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