His mouth came to meet mine in a sweet kiss. “That was intense.”
“Yeah, it was.” I breathed out, realizing how edgy I’d gotten during that exchange. Even though things had ended well, I was having a hard time shaking off the stress of it.
“But I’m glad it happened,” Jonah finished.
“What?” I laughed at the absurdity of being glad about any of that. Except for the baby of course. “You are?”
“Well, it needed to happen. Now we can put it behind us.”
“I guess that’s true.”
“And stop hiding.”
“You’re not going to get bored, are you? This isn’t going to be disappointing because we’re not sneaking around anymore, hmmm?”
He laughed. “This is what I’ve been waiting my whole life for, Eliza English. Far from being disappointing, this is the best day of my life.”
“You’re crazy.” But his words hit the most tender places of my soul with a gentle caress that had butterflies soaring in my belly.
“Crazy in love,” he said with another kiss. “Should we head out?”
“I should probably stay to help.”
“Nah,” he coaxed. “They’ll be fine for a night. We got other things to do.”
I was beaming, maybe glowing. How could any one man be so very perfect? “Oh, yeah? Like they were fine last time?”
He rolled his eyes. “They’re overdramatic.”
I let him pull me into standing. “That’s true. But what else do we have to do?”
His smile was all male satisfaction and mischief. “Well, I broke a promise to Will by dating you. But there’s one promise I made him years ago that I intend to keep.”
Now I was all curious. “And what is that?”
“That our kids would be the same age so they could grow up like we did.”
His words didn’t immediately register. I couldn’t quite figure out what his kids and Will’s future kids had to do with me. He waited patiently for me to figure it out.
Because OH. OH MY GOSH. Will was having a baby. So that meant... “You’re joking,” I demanded.
He tugged on my hand, pulling me out of the bar. “I mean, we don’t have to make any official decisions. But we should at least practice, right?”
I reached for my purse and then my phone while he continued to pull me alongside him. “Jonah, you’re out of your mind if you think—”
He reached up to tuck my hair behind my ear. “Practice, Eliza. Let’s start there.” And then he kissed me, reminding me just how much I loved practicing.
And how much I loved this man.
This man who was mine.
Will would continue to be a butthead for a while. And Charlie would be as bratty as possible. But the hard part was over. Now it was just Jonah and me and forever.
And apparently, our future kids.
My mom would be thrilled.
nineteen
