No more wondering if I could have kids. No more wondering if I’d ever have the family I dreamed of. No more wondering if my dreams would ever come true.
Forever, I’d be happy.
“I love you, Liam.”
I hadn’t even meant to say those words. I hadn’t planned on it. But what else could I say to the man who had given me everything I’d ever wanted?
Nothing. They were the perfect four words.
“I love you, Kelly.”
And he was the perfect man.
And we were the perfect couple.
And when we’d get home and have Charlotte in our arms, we’d finally, finally be the perfect family.
Epilogue
Six Months Later
I worked on putting back together Kelly’s old family home. It was a real grind of a process—I’d built a home, but never out of the ashes and burnt wood of another one—but it was one that I was more than happy to do. After all, the way things were now, as fucking stunning as it was to say, I wasn’t building it for her or even for Charlotte. I was building it for us.
Us.
What a strange fucking term. No one else had been close enough to me for there to be an “us” in years. And yet, just like Scott, I had found myself being an “us” with a client.
At least I’d found my us with someone I’d been with before. And while I didn’t doubt that Scott really cared for his girl, I knew having a daughter in the picture made me a lot more committed and serious than I would have been.
I stepped outside, sweaty and slick, to let the cold air brush over me and give me momentary respite. I looked off in the distance and heard it before I saw it—a vehicle approaching.
Almost certainly, it was Kelly or someone with the construction company she’d hired to expedite the process. But that didn’t mean that my alertness and instincts didn’t kick into overdrive; unlike Scott, I hadn’t just outright quit DOM. I’d made it clear I wouldn’t take over, but I wasn’t ready to retire yet.
Not that being a DOM was something you could ever really retire from.
But then I saw Kelly’s van pulling up, and I let my guard down. She waved to me as she rolled up the hill, a huge grin on her face. She was always happy to see me, but this one felt different. There was a certain unbridled joy to her that I couldn’t place.
When she parked, she got out, her smile practically plastered on her face, as she came up to kiss me.
“What’s up, Daddy?”
“Uh, hi,” I said with a laugh, “why are you calling me that?”
She looked down at the ground. I arched an eyebrow.
“The ground? Are you—”
“Not the ground, you dummy,” she said. “My belly.”
“Your—”
Oh.
Oh my God.
Holy shit.
“You’re…”
“A second time,” she said, her eyes glistening. “I guess I just needed to find the right guy before my body would have kids. And now it can’t stop having them.”
My eyes went wide with joy. My own face mirrored Kelly’s, an enormous grin forming. I swept her up in a kiss.
I was already set on making this last forever. Now, I didn’t need to try and do anything. Nothing would stop us from being forever, because with this new child, we had everything we’d ever need to keep going.
“I love you, baby,” she said as she kissed me.
Each other.
“And I love you too, babe.”
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