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Kara kissed him. “Shut it.”

“Yes, dear.” Never one to talk his way out of a sure thing, Dan kissed her and helped her out of her clothes while she did the same for him. “Ilovenaked day.” He kissed her neck and nuzzled her soft skin. “It’s my favorite day of the whole week.”

“Mmm, it’s usually a good day.”

Dan pulled back, frowning, and said, “Usually?”

Once again, she laughed. “Less talk. More action.”

“Mmm, I like how you think.” He eased her back onto the bed and came down next to her, propping his head on one hand while he used his other hand to touch every soft inch of her curvy body.

“I can’t believe you still want me like you do when I’m bigger than a house.”

Dan froze, shocked to his core that she’d say such a thing. “You can’t believe I still want you this way when you’re gorgeous and sexy and pregnant with our baby? Really?”

“I just feel ridiculous, with my big belly and disgustingly huge boobs.”

Dan cupped one of them and teased her nipple into standing up straight as she shivered from the sensations. “Don’t you let me hear you say anything mean about my favorite boobs ever.”

“Reminder that they’ll go back to normal after this.”

“Not that there’s anything at all wrong with your version of normal, but I plan to fully enjoy these beauties while they last.”

“Would you tell me if you thought I was kinda… I don’t know… ungainly or whatever?”

“Kara, sweetheart, love of my life, there’s nothing about you that isn’t beautiful and desirable to me.”

“And you’re not just saying that because you did this to me?”

“God no. I thought you were the most beautiful girl in the world before you were pregnant, and now…” He closed his eyes and rested his forehead on her chest. “Now I think you’re a fucking goddess.”

“You were already going to get very lucky.”

“I mean it. In fact, the goddesses have nothing on my wife.”

“Kara? Are you here? Kara?”

They froze.

“Oh my God. My mother.”

“No,” Dan said with a groan. “Way to kill a perfectly good boner.”

“Let me up. I wouldn’t put it past her to come in here looking for me.”

He moved to let her up. “And you wondered why I locked the door?”

“I didn’t wonder.” Kara put on a robe she’d stolen from Buster and tied it tight around her waist. “Hold that thought.”

“Mmm, sure. No problem.”

After she left the room, closing the door behind her, Dan buried his face in a pillow and groaned.

Chapter

Twenty-One

“Hey,”Kara said to her mother, who was helping herself to coffee.

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