Wanting His Child

‘She wanted you,’ Verity told him.

‘Mmm…but she didn’t get me. There wasn’t anything here for her,’ he told her seriously, touching his own heart lightly and then adding, ‘and so there couldn’t be anything here either…’ Verity watched as he touched his sex.

‘I thought it didn’t work like that for men,’ was all she could manage to say.

‘For some men, but not for me. Perhaps that’s why I’m so hungry for you now,’ he told her with a soft groan. ‘I’ve got a lot of lonely nights to make up for…’

‘I don’t want to get pregnant,’ Verity told him, explaining when she saw the look in his eyes, ‘I mean, not just yet. Not until Honor has had a chance to…to adjust…to know that she’ll always be very special to both of us…We need time together as a unit, a family…We need to bond properly together as a threesome, Silas, before we introduce a new baby into our family. We owe it to Honor to wait until she’s ready.’

When she looked at him she saw that his eyes were bright with emotion.

‘What is it?’ she asked him warily. ‘Have I…?’

‘You’re perfect, just perfect, do you know that?’ he told her passionately. ‘No wonder Honor is so determined to have you as her stepmother. Come here and let me kiss you…’

Smiling at him, Verity complied…

EPILOGUE

‘WHAT are you doing?’ Catherine asked Honor curiously.

They were both standing in Verity’s bedroom, still wearing their bridesmaid’s dresses from the afternoon wedding ceremony which had taken place in the garden. Honor was writing something down on a piece of paper, shielding it with her hand as she kept a weather eye on the half-open bedroom door.

Down below them, in the garden, Verity and Silas were mingling with their guests, Silas’ arm wrapped protectively around his new wife’s waist.

‘I’m writing a list of babies’ names,’ Honor informed her friend loftily.

‘Babies names…What for? You won’t be having a baby for ages yet,’ Catherine told her.

‘It’s not for me, stupid,’ Honor told her. ‘It’s for Verity.’

‘Is Verity having a baby?’ Catherine asked her, looking confused.

‘Maybe not quite yet. But she soon will be now that she and Dad are married,’ Honor told her confidently. ‘I think, if it’s a girl we should call her Mel and if it’s a boy…I think Adam…’

‘Why Adam?’ Catherine asked her.

‘It’s a nice name for a baby brother.’

Down below them in the garden, happily oblivious to the plans that were being made for their future, Verity leaned a little closer into Silas’ body.

‘Looking forward to tonight?’ he teased her wickedly as he felt the soft warmth of her body.

Laughing ruefully, Verity wrinkled her nose at him.

‘You’re the one who’s supposed not to be able to wait to get me into bed, not the other way around,’ she reminded him.

‘What makes you think I’m not?’ Silas challenged her. ‘We’re going to have to make the most of tonight,’ he warned her. ‘It’s the last night we’re going to have to ourselves for quite some time.’

‘Mmm…I know,’ Verity agreed, closing her eyes as she dwelt blissfully on the thought of the luxurious suite at the hotel where he had once made love to her that Silas had booked in their names for their wedding night. She smiled as she remembered that on their first stay there they had a much smaller room.

‘If I ever thought about where I’d spend a honeymoon, it certainly wasn’t Disneyland,’ he told Verity dryly.

She opened her eyes and laughed.

‘No, me neither,’ she admitted.

‘So how come you were the one who insisted that we make the booking?’ Silas asked her gently. ‘Or can I guess?’