Uniting Hearts: Discovering Me #3 by A.M. Arthur

Author:A.M. Arthur [Arthur, A.M.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Briggs-King Books
Published: 2020-06-05T16:00:00+00:00

6

JEREMY

Sex with Cole was always special, and each time a small part of me still marveled at the incredible trust we’d built. I treasured that trust every single day and even more so after the sex we shared today. It had been unscripted and fun, and I spent the rest of the day proud over making Cole come like that.

We didn’t talk about Bethann or the baby, and we mostly ignored our cell phones. I answered a few business-related inquiries in between watching a few episodes of a new Netflix show we’d both wanted to try. Since we’d eaten such a heavy lunch, we had simple sandwiches and chips for dinner. Then we locked up and went to our bedroom to relax. Relaxation turned into friskiness, and we ended up blowing each other. We’d perfected the art of sixty-nineing because we both loved to see who could get the other off first.

I won that night and eagerly swallowed Cole’s gift, before blasting off in his mouth a few moments later.

So perfect.

I had to open the store the next morning, and I braced for gossipers the moment I unlocked the front door. The porch was empty, though, and I sent a silent thank you to whoever above was giving me mercy today. Bethann must have kept the adoption offer to herself, because I’d expected to be harangued about the decision first-thing. Not even Lucy stopped by. Just regular customers and folks passing through on the interstate.

Cole brought my lunch down at noon, and Meredith came in at two to close the shop. I went out to the workshop to take pictures of online items and go through another box from my Tisdale pick. Cole wasn’t working on his bench, but he did text that dinner would be ready at six.

The mental image of Cole cooking dinner while our baby girl sat in her bouncy seat with a pacifier in her mouth hit me all at once, and it took my breath away. I wanted that future. Almost yearned for it. I wanted to adopt the baby. Somehow, I had to get Cole to believe in himself the way I believed in him. He had so much love bottled up inside of him after so many years of being alone and betrayed that he probably didn’t realize it was there. Didn’t recognize those emotions anymore.

I’d fallen in love with Cole weeks before he fell in love with me and could say the words. Before he could trust himself to love and to be loved in return, without expectation of violence or reprisals for minor infractions. Yesterday, he’d shown how much he’d grown and cemented that trust in how we’d made love on the couch.

“You’ll be an amazing father, Cole,” I said to my workbench. “You just have to give yourself the chance.”

I finished up my work for the day at five-thirty and went into the house. The scent of Cole’s homemade pasta sauce drifted down as I ascended the stairs, and I tracked it to a pot simmering on the stovetop.

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