“Del, I love you. That’s all that matters. I want to be with you.”
He drew in a deep breath. He didn’t want her to love Liam.
And he was sure she didn’t want to love Liam, either. But neither of them could change it.
She’d already decided her marriage to Liam wouldn’t work, no matter how she felt about him. So Del would suck it up and do his best to help her get over Liam while he stood by her side. Supporting her however she needed him to.
They would find a way to make it work.
“So if not marriage, what next?” he asked. “We start dating? What about the long-distance thing? Would you at least consider moving in with me here?”
“I don’t know. There’s so much to think about and…” She shook her head. “I’m still getting used to the fact that I’m pregnant.”
He stroked her hair behind her ear as he gazed into her blue eyes. “Are you happy about that?” he asked.
Her lips turned up in a smile and her face glowed with an ethereal beauty.
“I am. I didn’t believe it would be possible for me to ever be a mother and now…”
She rested her hand on her stomach.
He rested his hand on top of hers. A life was growing inside her. A child that hopefully they would raise together.
She’d said she loved him, so it was just a matter of working through whatever she needed to finally accept his proposal.
“When are you going to tell Liam?”
She seemed to crumple. “Do I have to tell him?”
“He is the father. It wouldn’t be right to keep it from him.”
“But if he knows I’m carrying his child, he’ll insist I move in with him and we become a family. He won’t accept no for an answer.”
Del knew that was true. If he found out she was carrying his baby, he would do everything in his power to win her back. Maybe even threaten to sue for custody of the child if she refused to stay with him. And with his money and resources, he’d probably win.
“You can’t tell everyone it’s my baby. Liam’s good at math. He’ll figure it out. Even if we lied and told him we actually hooked up the weekend of Kurt’s wedding, he’d insist on a DNA test.”
“I know. I have to tell him. Of course I do. It wouldn’t be right. I’m just overwhelmed and worried he’ll never sign the divorce papers.” She leaned against him and he slid his arm around her. “I can’t imagine how difficult he’s going to make this for us.”
“Whatever happens, we’ll see it through together. I promise you, you and I will raise this child together.”
She cupped his cheek and gazed lovingly into his eyes.
“You’ve always been there for me. I can’t express how much that means to me.” She smiled and moved in closer. “I’m so glad we’re finally going to be together.”
She ran her hand down his chest and rested it over his heart. The glitter in her eyes took his breath away.
“I’ve yearned to be with you for so long.”
His mouth turned up in a wide smile. “I’ve wanted that, too.”
He’d allowed too many things to get in the way in the past. The fact that her brother had asked him to look out for her had forced him to stomp down his growing feelings right from the beginning, but those feelings turned out to be more than lustful stirrings. They’d grown into a deep, heartrending love.
She may be carrying Liam’s baby, but she didn’t want to be married to Liam. And Del was done with being the good guy. She wanted Del, and he wasn’t going to let anything get in the way of that now. Because they both finally had a chance at happiness.
She leaned forward and nuzzled his neck. A powerful flood of emotions surged through him.
He’d dreamed of this … of taking Abi in his arms and making her his. Completely and forever. But he wanted their first time to be special. Something they’d remember for a lifetime.
Not just pushing aside their pizza and having a quick one on the couch.
But, damn, with her lips brushing lightly against the base of his neck, her soft body pressing closer to his, and—God help him—her hand stroking down his chest heading straight for his rising cock …
“Oh, fuck, Abi,” he said, grasping her wrist mid-stomach, “don’t you want to wait until after dinner when we can put on some soft music, light some candles? Make it romantic? I want our first time to be special.”
“There’s only one thing I’m hungry for right now,” she murmured, “and it’s not pizza.”
She curled her hands around his neck and slid onto his lap, facing him, her knees on either side of his thighs. The heat of her body on him, her private womanly parts resting on his rising bulge with only thin layers of fabric as a barrier, was driving him wild.
She kissed him, her lips soft and yielding.
“And every time will be special with you.” She stroked back his hair in a gentle caress.
Then she captured his mouth again. Her tongue nudged against his lips and he opened. He groaned at the feel of her soft tongue exploring his mouth and he pulled her tighter to him, deepening the kiss.
His cock was so hard now she had to feel it against her body.
She rocked her hips, gliding over his shaft.
Oh, yeah, she felt it.
CHAPTER TEN
The feel of Del’s rock-hard cock pressing against her intimate flesh as Abi glided back and forth was intensely arousing. Her panties were wet with her need.
She slid her hand down his stomach, feeling the well-defined ridges of his abs through his shirt, then she unzipped his jeans. When she reached inside his flap and wrapped her hand around his thick, hot shaft, she was delighted by how big it was. She pulled it free.
She sucked in
