Keeping You by Jessie Evans

Author:Jessie Evans
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9781493524129
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2013-09-18T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Until tonight, Nash had enjoyed being a part of Felicity’s bedtime rituals: listening to the happy sounds from the bathroom as Aria gave Felicity her bath, inhaling the smell of lavender that surrounded the baby as she came crawling into the living room in a fresh sleeper, the warm, heavy feel of a child in his lap as he and Felicity snuggled while Aria read two or three of the baby’s favorite picture books on the couch next to them.

It reminded him of bedtimes around the Geary house when he was a kid, except a thousand times less chaotic.

One baby, instead of three or four under the age of five, meant time to savor each smile, to marvel over each perfect little finger, to appreciate the milestones as they cropped up in the course of day-to-day life.

Felicity was already changing from the baby he’d first met at the BBQ months ago. She would be walking before they knew it, and speaking her mind with a far bigger vocabulary than “mama,” “no,” and “deer” not long after. She was a sweetheart, a kid it was impossible not to lose your heart to.

But tonight, she was also a child he couldn’t wait to see tucked in bed, sleeping tight. Bath time seemed to last a hundred years, and story time dragged on for a full-blown eternity.

An eternity in which it was impossible to concentrate on anything but Aria sitting so close her thigh pressed against his, so near he could smell the perfume mingling with her shampoo, count the freckles on her pale arms, and imagine all the freckles he’d find as soon as he had her out of that sexy green dress and naked on his bed.

He couldn’t wait to have her all to himself, to show her that there was nothing to be afraid of when it came to the two of them. They were meant to be. A part of him had known it when he was just a kid. His adult self had needed a few days to figure it out, but now that he had, he couldn’t bring himself to be cautious or sensible for a second longer.

He wanted Aria in every way a man could want a woman. And he wanted her for the long haul.

This was what falling in love was supposed to feel like. An irresistible force, like a tidal wave that pulls you under, spins you around, and flips your entire world upside down, but you don’t really care, so long as the woman you’re falling for is being swept away with you.

Aria was with him, he could tell by the looks she kept sneaking at him as she read to Felicity, the way she kept losing her place and stuttering as she found it again.

He could see it in the way she closed the door to Felicity’s room with an arm that shook just a little as she released the doorknob.

“She’s asleep,” she whispered, her eyes widening as she turned and saw him standing in the doorway to his room.

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