After a while, he pulled back and I crawled onto the bed, desperate for his body to return to me, but thankful to lie down. My body was drenched with sweat, and as he curled into my open thighs, I noticed his was, too. He sunk into me and wrapped his body tightly into mine. My lips were at his ear, and I kissed the lobe as he thrust hard and fast into me.
“Come for me,” I whispered, and a grumble from deep inside him turned into a bellow. Suddenly, he exploded into me, and I cried out as the feeling of his hot come filling my core sent me into another climax. He thrust a few more times, emptying himself before collapsing into my arms, and we kissed deeply while our bodies calmed.
We fell asleep curled around each other, and I slept more soundly than I could ever remember.
The next morning Vince woke me up when he slipped out of bed. He made an apologetic face when he saw my eyes open.
“I’m sorry. I was trying not to wake you up. Go on back to sleep,” he said.
“Where are you going?” I asked.
“I need to get Frankie back home and go to work,” he said.
“You can leave him here with me,” I said. “And you brought clothes, didn’t you?”
He had a bag with him when he came in the day before. He nodded.
“Yeah. I brought some just in case.”
“Then why leave so early? Cuddle with me for a little while, then you can go to work. I’ll take care of Frankie until I have to go to work, then you can come back here tonight.”
It didn’t take much convincing. Vince agreed and climbed back into bed with me. Before he went to work, we took a shower together and he ran his hand over my stomach. There was nothing there yet, but seeing his tenderness and excitement melted me. I finally knew this was really going to work. We were going to be okay.39VinceI checked the time on my phone, saw it was a couple of minutes after five, and instantly started packing up my stuff to leave. Quentin showed up at the doorway to my office and looked in.
“Darren and I are going over to Greg’s house for a bit. Do you want to come?” he asked.
“Usually I would, but not today,” I said.
“Ah,” Quentin said with a grin. “Going to see Lindsey?”
“Absolutely. And since it’s already after five, technically I’m on overtime right now and she will be waiting for me.”
My brother laughed and shook his head. “It’s good to see you happy again. Both of you.”
I smiled at him as I walked out of the office. “Thanks. It’s good to be happy.”
Lindsey and I had decided not to share the baby news quite yet. We were still giving ourselves a chance to get used to the idea and just kind of enjoy our little secret between the two of us. But I knew I wouldn’t be able to hold out telling everybody for long. Especially my family.
My brothers and I had always been extremely close. The same went for all four of us and our parents. We were tight and shared everything. If one of us was going through something or something was happening in one of our lives, it wouldn’t be long before it spread out through the rest of the family. It’d definitely cut down on our privacy, but it also meant we had an incredible support system and always knew there were people by our side.
No matter what, each of us had at least five people we knew who loved us and would be there in any way they could. That made it hard for me to not just babble the news out as soon as I saw my family the day after Lindsey told me. I wanted them to know, and to be able to share in my excitement. When Quentin found out Merry was pregnant with their daughter, he told our mother within five minutes.
When Kelly finally revealed the baby girl she brought with her from Canada was Darren’s, he went straight to our parents.
But in both those situations, things were further along. Willa was already more than two years old, and Merry was a few months pregnant. Lindsey and I decided we wanted to hold off until we knew a little more about this pregnancy before we revealed it to everybody. But it was so hard to wait. I knew my parents would be over the moon. And I couldn’t wait to see Nick’s reaction.
He already thought of himself as Remy’s Uncle Nick. I could only imagine the thrill he was going to get finding out his best friend’s next child was his niece or nephew by blood. And with Darren and Kelly already talking about their plans to give Willa a little brother or sister, the boom of cousins was just going to keep growing. There could never be too many babies to grow up together and create the next generation of super-close Freemans.