Page 90 of A Baby for the Firefighter
“Yeah, I think so too.” I shared a glance and a smile with Dean. “We haven’t really talked about it yet.” But wehaddecided that we weren’t going to tell anyone whatever name we settled on before the birth. Mostly to annoy my brother, if I was being honest. He’d never shared his kids’ names with me before birth, either. Everything else, but not that. Now he was gonna have to wait too.
When my mom was gone, Dean and I retreated to the living room.
“What’s all this about marrying?” he asked almost as soon as we were alone.
“Oh, don’t worry about that,” I waved him off. “Just one of the things my parents badgered Eli about when he told them that he was pregnant. They couldn’t cope with the idea that he was going to have a baby without marrying anyone. I was kind of scared they’d try to pull the same kind of shit again. I know it’s silly because I’m an adult and all… I guess I just don’t often feel like one.” I laughed weakly. “How am I gonna raise a kid?”
“You’ll do fine,” Dean reassured me, stepping close. Gently, he rested his hands on my belly. “We’ll figure this out together.”
I leaned up to touch my lips to his just as I felt the baby kick. Seemed our little boy agreed with that.
40
Griffin
The daymy cast came off, my alpha had a surprise for me. He wouldn’t tell me what exactly it was, though. He just told me to wait in the bedroom, so that was what I did. I waited on the bed while he finished preparing whatever he had in store for me.
I honestly had no idea.
Until he walked into the room in his firefighter uniform and my jaw nearly dropped. Dear God, he was hot. I licked my lips. Why couldn’t he wear that uniform every day?
Probably because random omegas would throw themselves at him in the streets. Now that was a thought I didnotlike. Other omegas had no business throwing themselves at Dean. He wasmine.
Dean smiled at me. “Just asked Daniel to give me full-time hours today.”
I jumped up from the bed and embraced him. “That’s awesome!” I hadn’t been sure whether Dean would continue his job at the fire department. I would have supported him if he’d decided to quit, of course, but I got the feeling that wouldn’t have madehimhappy, and I really wanted him to be happy. He’d said his nightmares had gotten better over the past few weeks too. Partly because he’d regained some of his confidence after that day I’d gotten stuck in the woods, and partly because he’d started seeing a therapist about his issues shortly after that, saying he didn’t feel the need to be ‘strong’ about his trauma anymore. “I’m sure you’re going to be the best firefighter in town,” I told him.
“Yeah?” He closed his arms around me. “I don’t know about that, but I don’t need to be the best. It’s just a job. It’s not who I am. Not anymore.”
“No?” I kissed his neck and breathed in his scent. “I gotta say I like you as firefighter, though.”
He chuckled, the sound a low rumble that made his chest vibrate. “You weren’t kidding when you said uniforms were hot, were you?”
“I thought that was the whole reason you put it on now,” I gave back, sliding my hands down to his ass. “Isn’t this my surprise?”
“Oh, it totally is.”
I grinned with my lips against his skin. “Guess I should unpack my present, shouldn’t I?”
“If that’s what you want…”
I didn’t respond, not in words. Instead, I went on my knees in front of him. I’d dreamed of doing this, sucking him off in his firefighter uniform. But he’d never been too comfortable wearing it and I’d had my own hang-ups. None of that now, though. My heart was so filled with love for Dean that fear found no space in it anymore. I wanted to do this and I was damn well going to.
Dean still seemed a bit unsure about all of this, though. “Griff… do you really want to do this?”
I grinned up at him. “Yeah, absolutely.”
“I don’t know, with you being pregnant and all, I feel like—”
“I’m pregnant, not dying, okay?”
That made him shut up, and I could finally set out to do what I’d been wanting to do for so long. Slowly, I opened Dean’s fly and breathed in his scent. That moment, Dean smelled so alpha it made my head spin—in the best way possible. I nuzzled his thigh with my nose, taking in as much of that smell as I could, feeling almost overpowered with desire.
How could I ever have been scared of this? Right here on my knees in front of Dean, this was where I belonged. How could things be any different?
I exhaled on a sigh as Dean ran a hand into my hair, playing with the strands. I could have started to purr, really, but that wasn’t what I was kneeling here for. No, I wanted to makeDeanpurr, or at least make him moan. With all my heart, I wanted to please him, and the need to do just that was intense. It didn’t inspire fear in me anymore because I knew my alpha cared for me the same way.
What could be better?
