“Because if I wasn’t out of town, I would have been here with you, and you wouldn’t have had to deal with all of this on your own.”
“You were helping to rebuild a town in their time of need, Emmett. Because you're an amazing man who’s so damn selfless. Don’t you dare be upset with yourself.”
“If you don’t mind my interrupting, I get that you two weren’t looking for Alphas. But why are you acting like being scent-matched is the end of the world? You don’t even know us,” Sloane asks.
I swing a scathing look at him. “And you don’t know us. You don’t know our pasts and what we’ve had to deal with. So how about you shut up.”
“Hey.” Lexi cups my face. “It’s okay. I’m okay.”
“Alphas aside, how are you feeling? Are you still sick?”
Her cheeks turn pink. “Uhh, about that. I was never sick.”
“What?” My brows furrow. “But you were puking. Was it just something you ate?”
“No,” she whispers, eyes brimming with fresh tears. “Please don’t be mad. Don’t hate me.”
“I’d never hate you, baby.” My heart hurts thinking she could even think that’s a possibility.
“I was sick because of morning sickness,” she tells me, eyes cast downward.
“Morning sickness...” I whisper, more to myself as I say the words over and over in my head, my brain trying to play catch-up.
Holy fuck. Holy mother of god. Lexi is pregnant?
“You’re pregnant?” I ask, my heart damn near exploding.
“Yes.” She flicks her eyes up to meet mine.
“You’re pregnant?” I laugh out in disbelief. “You’rereallypregnant?’
“Are you mad?”
“Mad!” I shake my head vigorously. “Why would I be mad? Lexi, you’re pregnant with my baby. We’re having a baby!” I grab her face and kiss her hard before peppering kisses all over herface. “I love you. I love you. I fucking love you.” Tangling my fingers into her hair, I lay her back, then cover my body with hers as I kiss her deeply. She moans, clinging onto me as my tongue slips past her lips and dances with hers.
My whole body is on fire with happiness and pleasure. I love this woman more than words can ever express. My best friend, my everything, and now she’s giving me this little life. A life that’s part of her and me.
We’ve never talked about kids, and I could have been happy without them if that's what she wanted. But now, hearing her tell me that there’s a little person growing inside her, I’ve never felt this kind of happiness in my life.
“I love you so fucking much.” I pull back, panting heavily. “And our baby.”
“Really?” She smiles shyly. “You're happy?”
“So fucking happy,” I laugh, kissing her again.
This time, it gets a little more heated. I get lost in the moment, my hands wandering as Lexi locks her legs around me, grinding her hips.
I’ve missed her so damn much and have been dying to have her again. To get her alone and worship her body for hours.
I’m about to strip her naked and fuck her right here, when a wave of Alpha pheromones hits me, reminding me we’re not alone.
“Fuck.” I pull away, chest heaving and cock thick with want, to glare at the two intruders watching with far more interest than needed.
Fucked up as it is, the idea of them watching the two of us together makes my cock weep.
What is wrong with me? I don’t even know these men.This damn scent bond has me feeling new things that I don’t like.
Lexi pushes me off her, scrambling to sit up. She fixes her hair and clears her throat.
