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“Deal,” I murmured, kissing the shell of her ear.
CHAPTER 68
BAILEY
I could tell that Adam was nervous when I told him that I had some news. And I supposed he had a right to be. I had shown up at the airport looking a mess, no doubt, talking about how terrible my flight had been, then I’d told him that I didn’t want to talk about my trip, making him more nervous that something had gone wrong with it, and now I couldn’t seem to blurt out the news that I had.
I really wanted to tell him that I was pregnant. But I also just felt totally tongue-tied as I tried to think of how to tell him. What would his reaction be? Would he be excited or regretful? And what about the job offer? I still had to give an answer to Ian, Pat, and the board of directors. I wanted to talk things over with Adam first. But could I handle telling him about the baby and the job offer at the same time? It was all just too much to handle.
So it was kind of nice to let him just kiss my worries away. Especially since he had finally told me that he loved me. I didn’t want to taint that declaration of love with anything else. I knew how difficult it had already been for him to get to that point, and I didn’t want to heap anything else on him right now.
I let him keep kissing me, my passion spiraling higher with each successive brush of his lips against mine, and I let him walk me towards the stairs. We would talk later. With Ethan out of the house, we had all night.
Of course, there were plenty of other things that I wanted to do tonight, rather than talk. But maybe we could do a little bit of both. I just had to play my cards right. I grinned into the kiss, and I could feel Adam grinning right back at me.
I couldn’t help but feel giddy, perched on the precipice of an incredible future together with this man whom I loved so much. I might not know exactly what that future would hold just yet, but I had the feeling that we were one step closer to it, whatever it was.
I tripped my way up the stairs, Adam steadying me with every step, holding me close, his hands promising to never let me go.
In the bedroom, he stripped me down, his heated gaze roving over my body. His lips trailed across my skin, touching every inch as he laid me bare. He stripped down as well, as an afterthought, while I spread myself out on the bed, my eyes never leaving his.
Adam crawled on top of me, his lips still making their way across my body. He must have kissed every square inch of my skin, each tender touch driving me a little more wild with desire.
Impatient, I pushed at his shoulder until he flipped us around, and I gave him barely a second of warning before I was sliding down his length. I groaned at the perfect feeling of him sheathed inside of me, my hips shifting helplessly as I tried to concentrate on my breathing for a moment.
Adam grinned up at me, looking just as turned on as I felt. His fingers caught my hips and helped me to find the rhythm, while his own body undulated as he thrust upwards each time I lowered myself down onto him. I could feel him deep inside of me, so deeply that it was a wonder he even fit.
Especially with his seed already growing inside of me. A little baby, a boy or a girl. Adam didn’t know about that yet, but there was still something about this that felt more intimate than any love-making I’d ever had in the past.
Adam smoothed his hands down my back, holding me close as he sped up his thrusts, until I was gasping for air, shaking apart at the seams. I cried out his name as he suddenly slowed, the drag of his cock inside of me making me suddenly aware of every inch of his length and girth.
My whole body spasmed as I came, but he kept going, these slow thrusts that built and built upon one another until I felt like my whole body was just one raw nerve of pleasure.
The next time I came, it was at the same time as Adam. While he groaned and slammed into me one final time, I collapsed forwards, his cock nudging at the taut nerves inside of me as the angle changed. I gasped and clung to him, my whole body clenching and releasing, my vision swimming in darkness and I tried to get air back into my lungs.
Even though Adam looked just as fucked-out and barely cognizant as I felt, he gently lay me back on the bed, slowly kissing his way across my body again. I couldn’t really move, and his kisses didn’t make my insides quiver nearly as strongly as they had before, but I hummed appreciatively and reached out to tangle my fingers in his as Adam lay back on the bed.
My stomach growled while we lay there basking in the afterglow, and I winced. I hadn’t really eaten all day. Just some snacks. I knew that that wasn’t healthy for the baby, but I just couldn’t seem to keep anything down. I had read everything I could find online about morning sickness cures, but I hadn’t had a chance to try any of them out just yet.
To be honest, I was hoping that I would only have to deal with the nausea for a little while and then it would go away. But I was worried that I was going to feel like this for the whole pregnancy. Could I handle that?
I glanced over at Adam. With him by my side, I knew that I could handle anything. There was no question about it. And at the end of it, we would have a child. All the nausea in the world, even if it kept up for the entire nine months, would be worth it.
“I made dinner, you know,” Adam said, rolling over to face me. “I could bring a tray up here and we could eat in bed, if you don’t feel like moving.”
I winced and took stock of my body. I was still feeling a little off, and even though I knew that I had to eat something, I also wasn’t sure that I was really up to eating a whole meal. But if Adam had cooked for me, then I needed to explain to him why.
Slowly, I sat up. “Remember how I said before that I have some news?”
Adam sat up as well, looking wary. “Yeah?” he asked. He frowned. “You’re not headed right back to Nevada tonight, are you?”
I blinked in surprise and then shook my head. “No, definitely not,” I told him. I couldn’t think of any clever way to tell him, so finally, I just took a deep breath and let it out slowly. “I think I’m pregnant.”
Adam stared at me for a moment, shock written on his face. “Pregnant?” he asked faintly. “You think, or you know?”
I frowned, not sure what difference it really made. “My period was late, but I’ve been working so hard that I didn’t even really think about it. Then, while I was in Nevada, I woke up super queasy and put two and two together. And I did one of those home pregnancy tests. I know they’re not always super reliable, but well, I’m pretty sure. I’ve already scheduled a visit to my gynecologist for Thursday morning. I wanted it to be sooner, but it’s kind of last minute.”
The words were out of me in a rush, and Adam looked floored. Slowly, he pulled me into his arms, and I sighed as I rested my head against his chest. “Oh Bailey,” he said, and I was pretty sure that was joy in his voice.
