“More?” he pulled back long enough to ask, his voice gravelly and low, and didn’t wait for her answer before his tongue was on her again.
“Fuck,” Jamie breathed behind her hand, hips rocking up into the heat of his tongue. “Alex.”
He chuckled, and tremors of pleasure shuddered through her with the vibration of the sound. It was a matter of minutes before he’d worked her up to another orgasm, her body exploding with ecstasy, and then she sank back against the bed, panting.
“No more,” she said, batting at his head with her hand. “Come up here.”
Alex slid easily up to lean over her again, mirth in his blue eyes and a crook in his smile. “Does that mean I’m forgiven?”
“Forgiven?” Jamie echoed. “You’re wonderful. I don’t think I could be mad at you if I tried.” She reached down and wrapped a hand around the back of his thigh. She whispered, “I want you inside me.”
“Thought you’d never ask,” he teased, and leaned down to kiss her.
His hands shifted her, turning her onto her side so that he could wrap himself around her back as he slid into her, working himself in and out. “I love you,” he breathed against her ear, pausing to nip at the lobe with his teeth. “You’re amazing, Jamie. I couldn’t have asked for a better person to share my life with.”
Jamie rocked back against him, hands on the arm against her stomach, and felt a different kind of warmth heating her from the inside out as he went on with the whispers.
“You’re the best choice I’ve ever made. You and the twins, you’re everything.”
“I love you, too,” Jamie said, voice catching in her throat with pleasure and emotion. She lifted one of her hands so she could reach back and curl it against the back of his head, holding him close. He buried his face against her shoulder. “You’re absolutely infuriating and I wouldn’t want you any other way.”
“Good,” he whispered, “because I am never letting you go.”
Wrapped in his arms, his voice in her ear and the smell of him all around her, Jamie felt like the perfect, beautiful person he described. The woman he saw her as. She let her eyes slid shut, just taking in the sensations, and then he was moving a little faster behind her, both of them crying out as they came. In the aftermath, they lay tangled together, just breathing, and for a few more minutes the world outside stopped existing entirely.
“I’ll go have the paternity test done later this week,” Alex said a little while later, when they were curled up together in the dark, waiting for sleep to come.
“Thank you,” Jamie whispered, leaning up to kiss him.
“And I want you to get a nanny.” Before she could protest, he pressed a finger over her lips. “Give me just a minute to explain why. Christine comes to help take care of them in the afternoons, but only sometimes. And I know you’ve been tired lately. You spent all day taking care of them today. Sometimes you deserve a break. I promise you that having someone else help sometimes so you can get some sleep or some work done isn’t going to make them any less yours.”
His finger dropped away, and Jamie laid her head against his chest, giving herself a minute to think about it. Alex was right that she was tired. She was exhausted right down to her bones most days, even when she was happy. It was a lot of work to take care of twins, and trying to do that and the PA job for Reid Enterprises was going to be too much if she didn’t take a break. She’d been fighting that knowledge since the twins were born.
Sighing, she nodded against Alex’s chest. “Okay,” she said. “You get the paternity test, and I’ll get a nanny.”
Alex’s arms tightened around her. “Thank you,” he said, echoing her words back at her. His hand slid through her hair. “Now sleep, baby. Tomorrow’s going to come early.”
Jamie curled closer against the warm body of her husband, and let herself obey.
Chapter 12
“So there’s something I want to talk to you about.”
Mark looked up from the papers on his desk to find his brother leaning against the edge of the doorway. He tipped his chair back a little, looking up at Alex with a question in his expression. “Go for it.”
“Jamie and I are going to hire a nanny,” Alex said. “It’s just too much for her to try to take care of the twins and work at the same time, and I want to make sure she doesn’t run herself ragged. But I think it’ll be easier for her if the nanny doesn’t stay in the main part of the house. So I was thinking about putting her in the apartment.”
“And you want me to move out,” Mark concluded.
“I’m not going to throw you out on your ear or anything,” Alex said. “If we have to, we can make it work. But it would be easier if we could have the apartment to use.”
Mark grinned at him. “Don’t worry about it. I’ve actually been planning for this. There’s a little bachelor pad built into the club house, over the restaurant. I figured one of the employees could live there if they needed to. Or I could.” He smiled. “Looks like it’s going to be me.”
“Thank you,” Alex said, “for being so understanding about it. Anything you need, you’re still more than welcome to let us know.”
“Relax,” Mark said. “I know you’re not kicking me out of the family. Seriously. It’s about time I got out on my own anyway, or you’ll never get rid of me.”
Alex finally cracked a smile. “Well, you could always earn your keep as the live-in nanny.”