“I promise this won’t take long,” he said, lighting the dry wood. When the fire began to crackle, Blake reached into the inside pocket of his tuxedo and pulled out an envelope. “I thought we could get rid of these together.”
A look of understanding sparkled in her pretty blue eyes and a smile curved her lips. “The divorce papers. I had forgotten all about them.”
“I hadn’t,” he said, removing the documents from the envelope. He gave them to her, then just as they’d done when they cut their wedding cake, he covered her hand with his and they tossed them onto the fire together.
As they watched the papers curl and turn black as they burned, Blake held Karly close. “Now that we have that taken care of, what’s this about you having a gift for me?”
Her lovely smile sent his blood pressure sky-high. “You’ll have to wait until early summer for the actual gift. But I can tell you about it.”
He leaned forward to press his lips to hers. “I’m listening.”
“It’s going to be small and loud at times,” she said, grinning. “And you’re probably going to lose a lot of sleep because of it.”
Blake had no idea where she was going with this, but she definitely had his full attention. “Okay,” he said cautiously. “Would you like to tell me what it is?”
“I don’t know yet.” Something about the look in her eyes caused the air to lodge in his lungs a moment before she grinned. “But as soon as we find out, we’ll be redecorating the room across the hall from the master suite in either pink or blue.”
“You’re pregnant.”
“No, we’re pregnant,” she said, laughing. “We got me into this together and we’re going to get me out of it. Together.”
He suddenly couldn’t stop grinning and he was pretty sure he looked like a damned fool. He couldn’t have cared less. They were going to have a baby.
Pulling her in his arms, he kissed her until they both gasped for breath. “It happened the morning we worked things out.”
She nodded. “We were so caught up in the moment, that’s the only time we forgot about protection.”
“I love you, Karly Hartwell,” he said around the lump clogging his throat.
When he swung her up into his arms and started toward the house, she cupped his face with her soft palm. “And I love you, Blake. Now, please take me upstairs so I can show you just how much.”
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