Page 78 of All Duke and Bothered

“Of course I will.”

“Can we even… Can I have you without injuring the baby?”

“Yes, of course…”

He sighed and laughed. “I suppose it all sounds funny to you. A grown man like me, with no idea what to do.”

“No,” she said and took him by his hands. “It’s not funny. It’s all new to me, too. I love you and we’ll learn all this together.”

He wrapped his arms around her, and she hugged his torso, their eyes locked. “And I love you,” he said slowly, giving her that charming grin of his that was just for her and no one else. The grin that meant his walls were down and he was bare and open and vulnerable for her.

As she was for him.

“Whatever life has thrown at me, I’m glad for it. No matter what turmoil I went through, it brought you to me. You’re the biggest gift I could ever have wished for, because you taught me to be kind and forgiving and when it’s time to set my pride aside.”

He blurred before her as she teared up. And when he kissed her, and desire and love washed over her, she knew this was just the beginning of a happy future.

And Preston and she would be by each other’s side every step of the way.

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