Magic of Christmas, right?

Whatever it was that had my cock rock hard at the simple touch of her hand and me hoping like hell she already carried our child I’ll take. It meant I finally found someone who made my world complete. And if the way she made love to me was anything to go on, she might feel the same way too.

Our clothes were on the floor in a crumpled mess, and I dreaded having to put them back on to retrieve the rest of our luggage from the SUV. But I can’t have my baby doing any sort of walk of shame.

Sun filtered through the window and played in her dark hair. I shifted, sliding my hand down to cup the plump, delicious curve of her ass. “Already?” she asked, shaking her ass and making me rock hard.

“Keep doing that and we’ll make it another marathon the Christmas day edition.”

“Can we get pie first?” She turned her head and bit her lip, coiling her legs over mine.

“We can get anything you want, baby. We have all day, all night, all week…year.”

Huh. The longer I talked the more her expression closed off.

“Gabriel, you know this can’t happen.”

I pushed up to an elbow, looking down at her. “What do you mean? You didn’t think I was going to fuck you with no protection and then just walk away, did you?”

She’s sitting up now, the sheet pulled around her and seeing fear flit across her expression killed me inside. “Honestly, yes.”

Did she actually say what I thought she just said?

I slid from our shared bed and dressed without looking at Evie, working damn hard to calm my heart from beating a hole through my chest. Clearly she failed to understand my intentions.

I buttoned my pants before I turned to face her. She was standing by the bed in all her beauty wearing my tee-shirt, and her crumpled sweatpants, her lips swollen from my kisses and her hair mussed from being in my bed. And she thought this was what? A one-night stand?

My heart ached to pull her into my arms and cover her with kisses, tear away the uncertainty I saw warring inside her.

“Maybe you need another spanking. One to help you rid yourself of any notion this was nothing more than a quickie between us.”

Her cheeks flushed.

“There are a few things you need to know.”

“Gabriel, really I don’t. This won’t really work.”

“You can listen to what I have to say or I’m more than happy to pull out the handcuffs.”

“Fine.” She crossed her arms over her chest pushing the ample mounds up like tasty offerings.

I kept my thoughts to myself because I knew this was something we needed out of the way before we approached her father, my friend with the news of us getting married. Small detail… I still needed to propose.

“By all means please continue.”

Little hellcat.

I stalked toward her. “Perhaps I didn’t make myself clear before I took your virgin pussy, Ice Princess.”

Evie blushed and opened her mouth to speak.

I shook my head at her. “For once, just listen. I told you before I came inside you that you were mine.”

Evie waved my words away. “Something all guys say when they are trying to get in your pants. I didn’t believe you.”

I could tell she didn’t believe her own words. She tended to bite her lip and look out over my shoulder when she was being less than honest.

“I’m not ‘all guys’ and that’s not something I’ve ever said before.”