even more of a lone wolf. Fierce and solitary, but loyal. It was a persona I was comfortable with because it kept people at a distance.
Everyone but Alex, who I adored beyond reason. Our marriage was perfect...except for the whole other life I was hiding from him. A life I needed to rethink if we were really going to have a baby. I’d have to take the next few months while my body adjusted to figure things out. The other part of my life wasn’t a world into which I wanted to bring an innocent life. I’d been able to protect my husband from that side of my life by keeping the two halves of myself completely separate. But a pregnancy very well could result in those two worlds colliding. As I stared down at my gorgeous husband, his face relaxed in sleep, I vowed to find a way to make it work. Alex wasn’t the most patient man in the world. It had only taken him two weeks to talk me into moving in with him. Four weeks to pop the question. Two months to exchange our vows. Four years of comments about breeding me, filling my belly with his baby. Four years of me putting him off, knowing the risks involved but was unable to explain it to him. The decision had been made. I was done making my husband wait. He’d been patient long enough.
Chapter 2
Alex
S ometimes I really hated my job. I hadn’t seen my wife in weeks and after the perfect night we’d shared, all I wanted to do was stay curled up in bed with her for a week. At least. I was determined to prove the doctor wrong and plant my baby in Evie’s belly right away. If it didn’t happen last night, I’d be pretty shocked. It was like hearing her say she was ready set something off inside of me. I don’t think I’d ever orgasmed so hard or filled her with so much come. I wouldn’t be surprised if my balls were dry as the fucking desert this morning. But the erection pressing against my wife’s stellar ass, as I wrapped her up even tighter in my arms, proved otherwise.
It didn’t matter what I wanted, the constant buzzing of my cell phone was shattering the perfection I was cocooned in. The distinct pattern of vibration told me it was my “work” cell and I stifled a groan, not wanting to wake Evie. If I ignored it, there would be a team of agents swarming my house in no time. That wouldn’t be easy to explain away. “Oh, honey, these are some guys I met at poker night. They thought we had a game this morning. They didn’t mean to break in... What? They look like spies? Preposterous!”
The last thing I needed right now, especially after she’d finally agreed to have a baby, was to break it to my sweet wife that she was married to a spy. I didn’t intend to hide it from her forever. I could appeal to the higher ups to have her read in, and I planned to do so, some day. I wanted to wait until I was ready to leave the field. I struggled with the guilt of lying, but I didn’t see one good reason for causing her to live life in fear every time I left the house. No, it was better for her to remain blissfully ignorant, believing I’m simply a contract lawyer with a plethora of international clients.
Lifting my hand from where it had been resting against her flat stomach, I twisted and reach out to grab my phone. The screen confirmed my suspicions, I was being paged into the office. Resisting the temptation to throw it at the wall, I set it back down on the bedside table. Curling back up around my Evie, I resolved to put in for a long fucking vacation. A babymoon. I perked up at the thought. It was just what we needed. I could spend my days and nights putting a baby in my wife for a week—no ten days—wait—maybe two weeks. Yeah, two weeks sounded perfect.
I lifted my head and brushed a kiss over Evie’s temple before reluctantly letting her go and getting out of bed. She stirred, and I leaned down to taste her sweet lips.
“I’m sorry, I’ve got to go into the office, baby. Stay right here and get some rest. I’ll be back to wear you out again in a