Going Down Again – Billionaire Bad Boys

They’d come back to the room last night and instead of falling into bed, she’d fallen asleep. Another sign she was pregnant.

Normally exhaustion wouldn’t have surprised her, but on vacation, where they were alone? That wasn’t like either of them.

“You’re not happy about it.” She glanced down at her feet, not meeting his gaze.

He tucked his hand beneath her chin and lifted her face toward his. “I think you’re the one who’s not happy or else you would have shared the news.”

She blinked and unexpected tears fell, and she had a hunch it was too soon to blame hormones. “I was afraid to tell you,” she admitted. “I thought that maybe you’d think two kids so fast was too much. We don’t get a lot of alone time as it is, and now it’s going to get even worse.”

“What? You think I’d be upset?” He shook his head, his expression one of utter shock. “Last night I worried you didn’t want another baby with me because Matty is so … challenging. Like I was for my mother.”

“Kade, no!” Pain that he’d ever think such a thing exploded through her. He’d suffered so much as a child and overcome so much more as an adult, and she admired him for all of it.

Before she knew it, she was in his arms, and he was hanging on as she wrapped her legs around his waist. He hefted her up so he could hold her more easily.

“I don’t think that about Matty!” she assured him. “He’s had a rough go, what with the colic and reflux and having a hard time with other things, but that’s not his fault. And it’s not yours!”

A wry smile lifted his lips. “I realized that’s not who you are or how you’d think, but yeah, for a second, it went through my mind before I shut those thoughts down.”

“Kaden Barnes, I want as many babies as you give me. I just worried you’d think it was too soon.”

He walked her back into the bedroom and deposited her onto the mattress. His deft fingers undid the belt on the robe, exposing her to him. “You, Lexie Barnes, are mine. You are my family, my life, my reason for breathing. And our children? I feel the same way about them.”

He pulled off his shorts and climbed back into bed.

Meanwhile, she slid out of the robe and they came together, naked, skin to skin.

“Do I want time alone with you? Fuck yes. Will I do whatever I have to in order to make sure we get it? Also a yes.” His hard cock nudged at her entrance, and she was slick and ready for him.

She smiled, her tears happy ones now. “I should have trusted you enough to tell you the minute I suspected. You do realize I’m not one hundred percent certain? But I have been queasy lately.”

He nodded. “But you’re not a typical puker, baby, so I’m thinking you are pregnant.”

She managed to laugh, though the thought of morning sickness didn’t make her happy. She’d gotten off easy with Matty. “I’ll take a test as soon as I get home.”

“You’ll go to a doctor as soon as you get home.” His stern gaze told her he’d be escorting her there himself.

“Yes, sir.” She stopped short of saluting.

“You realize you’re just turning me on, right?” To prove his point, he thrust hard and deep, filling her completely.

“Kade,” she said on a moan.

“What?” He braced his arms on either side of her and rose above her, his gaze soft.

“I love you,” she murmured.

“I love you, too, baby.” He slid out and plunged back in. “No more secrets. No more worrying about what I think. Just remember how this feels. How we feel together.”

He rocked into her, his erection filling her, his pubic bone gliding over her sex, arousing her, as he made love to her in the slowest, sweetest possible way. By the time she climaxed, her heart was bursting with love for this man. She hadn’t thought she could feel any more for him.

She’d been wrong.

* * *

Back in New York, true to his word, Kade took Lexie to her doctor before she could even manage to pick up a pregnancy test and take it at home. She didn’t ask how he’d finagled the appointment. When Kaden Barnes wanted something, nothing stood in his way.

“You’re pregnant,” the doctor confirmed with a smile on her face.

And when they walked out of the office, he was the one beaming.

He’d driven them to the doctor’s office, and when they arrived home, he helped her out of the large SUV.

“You’re not going to treat me like glass again, are you?” she asked, glancing up at him.

“Damn right I am. But right now, I have something for you. Come on.” He led her into the house, stopping in the den to grab Matty from where he was playing with Annie watching over him. “Come on, little man. Daddy has something for you, too.” He hefted his son onto his hip, and Lexie grinned as the three of them made their way to his home office.