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“You like it? You like feeling my cock stretch you out.”

My response was a garbled groan, originating deep in my shaking thighs. I didn’t know it was possible to feel like this, like an out-of-body experience I have to give way to. My spine was twisting itself, curling my muscles around with each plunge and setting off spasms so forceful they had my eyes rolling back.

“Fuck, Mills. I wanna feel you coming. Go on, squeeze my cock,” he ground out. “Ah, yeah, like that.”

I didn’t know if it was being pregnant that made this orgasm so earth shattering, but the way it ripped through me, I could be convinced the building was about to collapse. It was the most intense feeling I’d ever experienced, until half a second later when Tanner came.

He collapsed to the side of me with a low “Fuuck,”wrapping his arm around me and pulling me so tightly intohim I was struggling for air. “I’m not letting you kick me out this time. I want to get the cuddle I didn’t get before.”

“You’re so needy.” I laughed, freeing myself enough to rest on the pillow he’d slipped his arm under. “But sure, we can cuddle.”

“I’m needy when it comes to you.” He pushed up on his elbow. For a full minute his gaze scoured my face, our breaths settling as his blue eyes locked onto mine. I wanted to know what he was thinking, whether it was the same as me. And if he’d ever experienced this kind of mind-blowing sex with anyone else, not that I wanted to find out about anyone else he’d been with. But then he said, “I fucking love you so much.”

His declaration had the room spinning. I couldn’t blink, I could barely breathe. Up until this very second I’d never taken anything he’d said that seriously, because he was Tanner. And everything was a joke.

But hearing his words in black and white was a whole different matter.

“I…”

“You don’t have to say it back if you’re not ready. But I’m not going anywhere. Not now, not ever. This baby is mine.” He paused, his hands back on my belly. “And so are you. I love you, Millie.”

“Tanner.” Wrapping my hand around his wrist, I stilled his hand. “Why are you so sure I’m going to fall in love with you?”

His thumb brushed over my wrist. “Because there’s no way anyone could hate me as much as you protest to, which makes me think you have something to hide. Since the day I met you, Millie Robinson, you’ve done nothing but scowlat me, and I know for a fact I’m not that unlikeable. Back in high school I was voted most popular four years in a row.”

“You have such a big head,” I replied with a chuckle.

“Know what else of mine is big?”

“You’re an idiot.”

“A loveable one.”

I couldn’t deny it. I wanted to, but I couldn’t. There was something very loveable about Tanner, and this was a thought I was having independent of the baby.

“D’you have plans today?”

I shook my head. Just as I hadn’t wanted to move out of his arms when I first woke up, I wasn’t ready to leave this bed. I wasn’t ready to leave Tanner.

His fingertips brushed across my cheek. “We have today off, spend it with me and let’s go shopping. I want you to take me to this baby store you went to with Holiday, and I want to buy things for our baby. We have a nursery to start building.”

A smile spread across my face. “I’d love to.”

“And I’m wearing my new sweater.”

SIXTEEN

TANNER

“This iswhere you came with Holiday?”

Millie nodded. “Yep. I told you it was intense.”

Yes.Intense.There had to be five thousand square feet of soft toys here.

I probably should have prepared better. I probably should have preparedat all.I knew for a fact I hadn’t covered the shopping chapter in any baby book I’d read yet, and while I’d bought plenty of presents for kids before, today was my first day in a baby department.

Anything I’d bought for my nieces and nephews had been shipped from the internet, or, even better, Holiday had purchased them and added my name to a card. Most of the time they’d already been picked out by my brother and sister, so there was no possible way for me to get it wrong.

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