As the guests headed into the house where a catered seven-course dinner awaited, Zach lowered Sophia to the ground so she could run ahead with the other kids. He stopped on the sand and wrapped his bride in his arms, holding her close. “God, I’ve missed you so much.”
“I want to squeeze you so hard, but I don’t want to hurt you.”
“Squeeze me. It will be worth it.”
She laughed and tightened her arms around him, and Zach let out a groan of both pleasure and pain. He whispered at her ear, “I love you so much. This is, hands down, the best day of my entire life.”
“Same, baby.” She pulled back, looked into his eyes, and smiled. “Same.”
Zach kissed her, giving her a gentle taste of his passion. “I can’t wait to get you alone.”
She laughed. “Big words for a man in your condition.”
“Don’t even. You know what happens when you challenge me.”
“Hold that thought. We still have a long night of friends and family ahead.”
“Yeah, about that…” He pulled papers from his inner jacket pocket. “Before we head into partylandia, I wanted to give you this.”
She took the folded papers but only scanned his face. “What is it?”
“Your wedding present.”
She gave him that sweet puppy-dog look. “Oh, Zach…”
He rolled his eyes. “Look, look.”
Laughing, she unfolded the sheets and skimmed the adoption papers Zach had drawn up over the last few weeks. She sucked a breath and pressed her fingers to her lips. “Oh…” Tears gathered in her eyes, and her watery blue gaze jumped to his. “I thought we were going to wait. Until things settled down…”
“You’ve been her mother from day one. These only put that fact into writing.” Zach cupped her face in both hands. “Today, you gave me a whole, complete, amazing family. You’ve brought me more love and more happiness than I’ve ever dreamed of having. I want this day to bring you the same joy.”
Tessa whimpered and threw her arms around his neck. “It already has, baby. It already has.”
DEAR READER
I hope you loved Zach and Tessa’s story! I enjoyed creating a stubborn, adorable little daughter who could wrap Zach around her finger. Thanks for reading!
Until next time,
Skye
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One
Grant Saber peered through the wide plate glass windows of St. Nicholas Hardware, searching the darkness for signs of life.
He cupped his gloved hands around his eyes to cut the glare from millions of Christmas lights reflecting off the snow and searched the shadows. This crazy-ass little town was dressed up for Christmas three-hundred-sixty-five days a year. As a kid that had seemed fun. As a teen, it had seemed just plain stupid. As an adult... Well, he’d bailed on this place as soon as humanly possible.
And he sure as shit didn’t want to be here now.