Page 119 of In the Dark

“Is that her name?” I wide-eyed it, and then him. “After me?”

“Named and bought just for you, wifey. Get your ass on it.”

I stepped onto the beautiful slab of sleek Italian engineering and bit my lip as I looked back at Callahan one step behind me. “I’m already in love with her.”

“As you should be.”

I flicked my gaze at the men starting to file onto the yacht with us and glanced at my husband. “I only want the necessary ones on here with us. I want it private.”

He nodded without hesitation this time and went back to discuss it with his men.

From there, he let the captain walk us around for the tour before he told him to disappear back to the wheelhouse.

“Settle in. Clothing for you is in the closet. Then come out to the deck with me?”

I wasn’t sure why he wasn’t jumping my bones yet. I wanted him more than ever before, but I waved him on and went to find a bright bikini I could slide on. It was white, like he’d made a decision that I was still his bride. I smiled at the thought as I slipped it on, and then my hands slid over my stomach once. Then twice, thinking of all I’d been through, thinking of what my aunt had said, thinking that if I was pregnant with Callahan’s baby, I was prepared to fight a whole war to raise that child with him.

I realized how much I’d changed in two months, and I knew that after our honeymoon, a lot more would change too.

Yet, I went upstairs, focused on having just this moment with him. I stepped out onto the deck in my bikini to soak up the sun … and my husband.

He stood with his tattooed back to me, the scar I’d given him still quite prominent. I walked up to run a finger over it, and then I wrapped my arms around his bare chest and felt the marks I’d made on his abs too. “I’ve been sort of rough with you.”

He hummed as he stared out at the sea, watching the coast get smaller and smaller.

“I enjoy whatever you are with me, Jasmina Knight.” He turned in my arm and stared down at me, the sun shining around his head like an actual halo.

“Well, then.” I couldn’t hold back anymore. “Want to enjoy me the way a husband does his wife on their first morning of marriage together?”

His eyes were serious as he searched mine. “We don’t have to do anything at all. You get that, right?”

“What do you mean?”

He rubbed down my bare back and then up it again. “I don’t need you to sleep with me because of a contract. I don’t want a kid with you because of that, Jas.”

Right. I think I just heard the I don’t want a kid with you, and my heart fluttered as my gut twisted. “But you were all interested in the chance of a trust—”

He gave a blue streak in my hair a gentle tug. “Doesn’t matter to me.”

“But the doctor said I was clear, and—”

“And you’ll be able to have children with whoever you want.”

Was he serious? I took a step back and glared at him. “Well, what if I want that person to be you?” I planted my hands on my hips. “Are you acting chivalrous all of a sudden?”

“I’m just giving you a way out if you want one.” I saw a small smirk starting on his face.

This man. “I don’t want a way out. I want my husband to stop being nice and take me like only he knows how.” I threw my hands up at him and instantly he was on me, his mouth and body colliding with me on the deck.

“Thank fuck, because I was about to jump in the water to cool the hell off if you agreed with my dumbass proposition.”

“What insanity,” I mumbled through kissing him. Clawing at his back wildly, I dug my nails into his shoulders so I had leverage enough to hop up and wrap my legs around him. His cock was a thick, solid spear that my pussy could rub against as I kissed him, rocking my hips so that the friction of our swimsuits gave us a little bit of relief.

“Damn. I’m not gonna last one single minute after watching you walk around in this bikini.”

I hummed. “You did good picking it out for me, then.”

“Damn right I did.” He walked us backward to a bench along the railing and sat us down on the smooth white leather so I could straddle him.