“Good morning.I was coming to see if you needed help.”
“Bless your heart,” Ginny smiled.“We can always use help.If you want to finish cooking the bacon in the microwave, that would be great.”
“Sure.”She washed her hands in the sink before moving to the counter with the microwave.Two packages of bacon were already thawed and waiting to be cooked.A paper-towel-covered platter next to the microwave held what looked like three pounds already cooked.Holy smokes.The Sons of Redemption were serious about their bacon.
“How are you feeling, Sadie?”Jane asked while pouring the scrambled egg mixture into a heated skillet.“The morning sickness settling down any?”
“Well, so far so good this morning.”She finished placing the slices of raw bacon on the tray, covered it with paper towels, and shoved it into the microwave.She punched in the time and turned around.“I'm hoping I'm done with my morning sickness now.”
“I remember when I was pregnant with Jackson.I threw up all the time.Or at least it felt that way.It was probably more like six weeks, but it felt like six months at the time.”Jane continued stirring the eggs.
“I remember being pregnant with my first girl.I was sicker than a dog with her, and when I got pregnant with my son, I cried because I thought I was going to be throwing up all the time again.”Ginny flipped another pancake on top of the pile growing in an aluminum serving pan on the counter next to her.
“You didn’t have morning sickness with your son?”
“No.But I was so sleepy all the time, I couldn’t get anything done.I would have to put my daughter in a playpen so I could take a nap.I’d sleep for ten minutes or so, then crack my eye open to make sure she was still alive.Then, when the third and fourth babies came along, I wasn’t sick or tired with either of them.”
Four kids and the woman looked amazing.Sadie hoped that after she gave birth, she could lose her baby weight quickly.Who knew?If they could ever catch Tinker and she lost the weight, maybe she could go back to dancing at Bottoms Up?Naw.That wouldn’t work.Jed would never let her go back to the strip club to work.Oh my God!What if she got stretch marks?She definitely couldn’t dance with stretch marks.Then another thought hit her.What if Jed didn’t like them?Would he be turned off and not want anything to do with her anymore?Maybe she should throw that out there now and get a feel for where his head was at on the subject.If they were going to break up again, she would prefer to do it sooner rather than later.The longer they were together, the harder it would be when he walked away.
“There you are.”The sound of Jed’s voice drew her attention to the door.Spotting her, he pushed his way inside, heading straight for her.With his hands on her hips, he turned her to face him, dropping his mouth to hers in a very nice morning kiss.
“Mmm.What was that for?”she asked, momentarily forgetting Ginny and Jane were in the room.
“That’s my good morning, happy to see you.”Jed’s smile was damn near blinding when he was relaxed and happy.He reached behind her and snagged a piece of bacon, popping it into his mouth before she could stop him.
“Oh.I see how it is.You were just working your wiles on me so you could steal bacon,” she teased.
“No.The bacon was just a bonus.”
“Uh huh,” she countered playfully.
He grinned and growled.“Ladies, I need to borrow Sadie for a minute or two.”His eyes never left hers as he told them his intentions.
“Jed.I’m helping cook breakfast.I can’t just walk out.”
“You’re right.You can’t walk out.”He bent his knees and swooped her up into his arms, heading for the door.
She squealed in protest, and she could have sworn she heard Jane say something about being young again, to which Ginny replied, “Speak for yourself.I get that from Dagger all the time.”
* * *
Jed
He kicked his bedroom door closed behind him, then went to the bed and gently tossed Sadie to the middle.
“Jed!”she squealed and laughed as she bounced.He loved that sound and didn’t think he could ever get enough.
“Shh.You don’t want everyone to hear what we’re doing, do you?They might come and check out all the noise.”He locked the door, then reached for the fastening on his jeans.
“What are we doing?”Her eyes were riveted to where he was unzipping his pants.It was sexy as hell to see her teeth sink into her bottom lip at the same time her eyes heated with desire.He teased her by showing her skin, but not his dick.He left the fly of his jeans open, then reached for the hem of his shirt.He raised it over his head slowly, giving her a good view of his six-pack.He had it halfway off when he heard a whoosh of air coming from her.Once it cleared his head, he tossed it to the side.Did it make him a smug bastard because he liked the appreciative way his woman’s gaze heated when she looked at him?Probably, but he didn’t give a fuck.
“You need to start getting those clothes off so I can fuck you.”He hadn’t bothered with boots or underwear when he woke up and found her and Oliver gone.He’d had a hard-on that wouldn’t go away, and all he could think about was tracking Sadie down and bringing her back to his bed.He’d found Oliver on the floor watching TV with the other kids, but no Sadie.Lindsey pointed him in the direction of the kitchen.
Why wasn’t she getting naked?
“Are you still going to want to have sex with me if I get stretch marks?”She leaned up on her elbows.
“What?”
