“Yes, sir.” She stopped short of saluting.
“You realize you’re just turning me on, right?” To prove his point, he thrust hard and deep, filling her completely.
“Kade,” she said on a moan.
“What?” He braced his arms on either side of her and rose above her, his gaze soft.
“I love you,” she murmured.
“I love you, too, baby.” He slid out and plunged back in. “No more secrets. No more worrying about what I think. Just remember how this feels. How we feel together.”
He rocked into her, his erection filling her, his pubic bone gliding over her sex, arousing her, as he made love to her in the slowest, sweetest possible way. By the time she climaxed, her heart was bursting with love for this man. She hadn’t thought she could feel any more for him.
She’d been wrong.
* * *
Back in New York, true to his word, Kade took Lexie to her doctor before she could even manage to pick up a pregnancy test and take it at home. She didn’t ask how he’d finagled the appointment. When Kaden Barnes wanted something, nothing stood in his way.
“You’re pregnant,” the doctor confirmed with a smile on her face.
And when they walked out of the office, he was the one beaming.
He’d driven them to the doctor’s office, and when they arrived home, he helped her out of the large SUV.
“You’re not going to treat me like glass again, are you?” she asked, glancing up at him.
“Damn right I am. But right now, I have something for you. Come on.” He led her into the house, stopping in the den to grab Matty from where he was playing with Annie watching over him. “Come on, little man. Daddy has something for you, too.” He hefted his son onto his hip, and Lexie grinned as the three of them made their way to his home office.
He opened the door and put Matty down.
“Puppy!” he screamed, barreling on his two little legs over to the oversized stuffed animal on the floor right beside Kade’s desk. Where he could obviously watch over his son while he worked.
Except Matty was now trying to drag the stuffed dog across the room. “Puppy. Annie.” He huffed and pulled and finally managed to make headway by yanking on the dog’s ear.
Lexie grinned. “You want to show Annie your new toy?” she asked, giving her little boy a kiss on the cheek. “Do that and then we’ll make cookies together, okay?”
“Cookies!” He clapped his hands, and Lexie called for Annie to come get Matty.
Kade picked him up and swung him around, laughing until Annie came to get her little charge.
When they were alone again, Kade grinned at Lexie. “Cookies? Chocolate chips?”
“Of course chocolate chips. They’re both of my boys’ favorite cookie.” Mr. Healthy only cheated on his diet for her homemade cookies.
“I have your gift.” He reached into his desk drawer and pulled out a brown wooden box, handing it to her. “Now, I admit I wasn’t sure what to get for you. And the store shopping really did overwhelm me. But when I came home and gave it some thought, the answer was obvious.”
She opened the box to find a women’s gold Patek Phillipe watch that was an exact match to his favorite timepiece in a size that would fit her wrist. “Kade, I love it,” she said in awe.
She glanced into the face of the man she loved, and tears formed in her eyes. Once upon a time, she’d been a woman, living in an apartment paid for by her parents so she could play babysitter to her sick sister. Then she’d gotten a job for an overbearing, difficult tech billionaire who couldn’t keep an assistant. And her life had changed forever.
He took out the piece, opened the bracelet, hooking the watch onto her wrist. “There. A perfect fit. Every time you look at it, you’ll think of me.”
She smiled. “I always think of you, Kade. You’re my heart.”
He pulled her to him. “And you’re mine.”
His lips came down on hers, his tongue sliding into her mouth.