Page 51 of Baby, It’s Hot Inside

She shakes her head. “I don’t know what you want me to say right now,” she says, her voice soft.

“Tell me what you want, Jackie.”

“I want you. I want us to be together. But that doesn’t make any sense. Up until yesterday I didn’t even think you liked me. So it doesn’t matter if I’m in love with you, Luca. I’ll go back home, and we can pretend none of this ever happened.”

“The fuck we can. I laid claim to you last night after wanting you for most of my adult life. I’m not letting you go ever again.” I cup her face and look into her eyes. “I’m so fucking in love with you, it makes me crazy, Jackie Cuevas. Do you hear me? So yes, I broke you and Matt up. And when I heard that he had been sniffing around you again, I came down there and paid him another visit.”

She sucks in a breath. “You knew about that?”

“That he hit on you after he married Sophie? Fuck yes, I knew.”

“Why didn’t you ever say anything?” she asks.

“Because I’m a goddamn idiot. But I’m done making that mistake. I’m not waiting another minute. I’m going to make some arrangements, and then will you go somewhere with me?”

“Where?”

“Vegas. I need to wife you up, baby doll, before you come to your senses and realize what an asshole I am.”

She laughs and wraps her arms around me. “Do you know that I fell into an entire subgenre of books because of my obsession with you? It’s like my heart knew somehow before my mind figured out.”

“Oh yeah, what kind of books?”

“Bully romance.”

“Am I your bully?”

“No. But they really aren’t either. I mean sometimes they can be mean initially. But usually it’s for a good reason. Like this one.”

“Because you’re my ‘Jessie’s Girl?’”

“Yeah, because that.”

“Fuck, I love you, Jackie.”

“I love you too, Luca.”

She kisses me then. And we let our tongues do the talking. We kiss and kiss until we’re both panting. Then she slides off the countertop and turns around, bending herself over the island.

“That an invitation, baby doll?”

“You offered to knock me up so we might as well get started. I guess I should have told you last night that I’m not on anything. I haven’t been sexually active since high school and that was hardly worth remembering. So, I haven’t needed any protection.”

“You want me to put my baby in your belly?” I tear my sweatpants down, then yank on her leggings. I barely get her panties down past her seam before I’m slamming inside of her.

“Yes, put a baby in me with your big dick.”

“Going to marry you tonight, Jackie. Then I’m going to fuck you again and again.” I pump into her with each word as if I’m saying my vows right now. Crude, maybe, but I mean them. This woman is my entire world.

“I’m going to come, yeah, just like that.” She pushes back against me and then her pussy convulses around me, pulling out my own orgasm as I follow her over the edge.

I don’t know if this is the one to get her pregnant, but I’ll put my baby inside her if it’s the last thing I do.

epilogue

Jackie

A few months later…