Page 55 of Savage SEAL's Virgin
“Are you saying what I think you’re saying, Blyss?” I took the thing out of her hand and saw a plus sign. “Oh, my God! Blyss! Is this a …” I was giddy. I was going to be a father!Again!
She nodded, and I picked her up, spinning her around, then put her feet on the ground. “I’m pregnant, Troy. I don’t know how this happened. I’m on the pill.”
“There was that two weeks you were in the hospital when you weren’t taking them. I bet you got pregnant that week I brought you home. Don’t take any more of those pills and get your therapist to suggest an OB for you.” Then it really hit me.We were going to have a baby!
“Troy, I …”
I wasn’t about to let her say another word. I had something to say to her first My knees hit the floor and I looked up at her. “Blyss Danner, you’re going to have my baby. Will you, for the love of all that’s holy, please marry me when I get back from this mission? I’m begging you to say yes, baby. I’m pleading with you. I swear to always take care of you and our family. Just marry me. Promise me we’ll make this marriage real as soon as I get back.”
She gulped. “That’s a lot of unnecessary pleading, Troy. I was going to ask you if we could do that anyway. So, you have a yes from me. I’ll marry you as soon as you come back to us. Your family.”
I got up and picked her up, spinning her around some more. I couldn’t help it. I was on cloud nine. I wanted to shout our great news from the rooftops.We were getting married and having a baby!
“You’ve made me so happy, Blyss. I can’t wait to tell Mom and Dad!”
“The baby news is all we can tell Tatum and her grandparents. Don’t forget that, Troy. We’ll have to keep the real marriage hush-hush from them. I don’t want them to know we lied.”
“Agreed. We’ll go to Vegas when I get back. I’ll charter a private jet to take us there, and we’ll be back before Tatum gets out of school that day. Sound like a plan to you, baby?”
Suddenly, she looked like she might faint. Her body went limp in my arms, so I picked her up and carried her to the bed. “It’s all going so fast, Troy. I hate fast.”
That was nothing new, but things were going to happen that way no matter how hard she tried to fight the current that was rapidly moving our lives forward.
Brushing the back of my hand over her cheek, I kissed her. “Everything will be fine. You’ll see.” I kissed her again, then heard a knock at our bedroom door.
“Daddy, Mommy, where are you?” came Tatum’s little voice.
“She’ll be the first person we tell about the baby, Blyss. Agreed?”
She nodded. “Let her in. We’ll tell her now.”
I gave her one more kiss, then went to let in our little girl. Blyss wasn’t Tatum’s mother legally, yet, but I’d be changing that soon too. I wanted adoption papers drawn up before our baby arrived that would make Blyss Tatum’s mother on paper. She already treated her as if she was her very own.
Scooping Tatum up after I opened the door, I kissed her chubby cheek. “Hey, you. Mommy and Daddy have some great news.”
“Oh, yeah?” She saw Blyss lying in bed and her brows furrowed. “Is Mommy feeling sick?”
“She’s just a little tired,” I said as I took her and sat down next to Blyss, with her on my lap.
Blyss sat up, rubbed her temples, and gave Tatum a smile. “I’ve had a very big surprise, honey. That’s why I was lying down.”
“A surprise?” Tatum was grinning from ear-to-ear, then she clapped her little hands. “Tell me, tell me! Please!”
“I’ll let you do the honors, Blyss.” I leaned over and kissed her cheek.
She took Tatum’s hands as they looked into each other’s eyes. “Tatum, I’m going to have you a baby brother or sister. What do you think about that?”
“What? Really?” Tatum’s little eyes went misty as she shrieked, “I’m gonna be a big sister!”
Before I knew it, Blyss had Tatum in her arms and the two were hugging and crying. I’d never seen anything more beautiful in my life. I had to get in on the hug and I felt tears stinging my eyes too.
We were a family in every way and about to add one more!
That day would’ve been the best ever, if I hadn’t had to leave.
After we all settled down, Blyss looked at me before she cut her eyes back to Tatum’s. “Tatum, Daddy has to leave after dinner tonight. He has some work to do at the Navy base for the next few days. I’ll be reading you your evening stories, taking you to school, and picking you up until he gets back.”
The look in Tatum’s eyes will haunt me forever. They clouded over and she grabbed me, throwing her arms around my neck and crying hysterically, “NO! No, my mommy went away for a few days and she never came back. No, Daddy, don’t go!”
