Water Broke at Midnight, Husband Waited for Her BFF's Hair, Baby's New Daddy Didn't novel · Chapter 12 of 24

Chapter 12: Under the Floor

Six weeks and one day after Tilly was born, my doctor said I was cleared.

I told Greg in the kitchen, with a baby on my hip and my face on fire.

He put down the spatula and turned the burner off.

"Tonight," I said.

"Tonight," he said.

The party had been pushed back, at Garner's mother's insistence, to the Saturday after the six-week visit.

Lacey had agreed at once, because she needed me there.

We had all agreed to wait for the same date for different reasons.

Garner had been gone from the house for five weeks.

Rhonda was staying downstairs in Greg's apartment, and tonight she had taken Tilly for a walk in the stroller without being asked.

She had winked at me on her way out.

I stood alone in my own kitchen with my pulse going and the oven timer ticking.

Greg came up the back stairs at eight.

He had showered.

His hair was wet and he wore a clean gray T-shirt, and he stopped inside the door and did not come any farther.

"Hi," he said.

"Hi."

"I'll stay right here until you tell me to move."

"Greg."

"Yes."

"That's the stupidest thing you've ever said."

He laughed, low.

"Come here," I said.

He crossed the kitchen in three strides.

I took the front of his shirt in both hands and pulled his mouth down to mine.

He kissed me slowly at first, and my whole body came awake.

Then my back hit the counter and he stopped being slow.

His hands went to my waist, and he lifted me onto the counter in one move and stepped between my knees.

"Tell me what you want," he said against my mouth.

"No lies."

"No lies."

"I want your hands on me."

"Where?"

"Everywhere. Start with here."

I put his hand on my breast over my shirt.

His thumb dragged across the nipple and I made a noise I did not recognize.

He stopped.

"Too much?"

"If you stop, I'll kill you."

He grinned against my neck and kept going.

He pulled my shirt up and off, and then the bra, and he looked at me for a long moment with his hands flat on my ribs.

My stomach was soft.

There was a faint silver line low on it, and my chest was heavier than it had been.

I put my arm over myself.

"Don't."

"Kira."

"I don't look the same."

"No," he said. "You look like you grew a person."

He took my wrist and moved my arm aside.

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