Total pages in book: 141
Estimated words: 141251 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 706(@200wpm)___ 565(@250wpm)___ 471(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 141251 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 706(@200wpm)___ 565(@250wpm)___ 471(@300wpm)
With his beautiful big brown eyes locked on mine he slowly leans in, holds my face in his hands, and he kisses me tenderly. It’s the most perfect kiss he’s ever gifted me and my feet lift off the ground. “I love you,” he whispers.
I giggle against his lips, and the crowd all laugh and cheer.
I turn to see my mother sitting in the front row. She’s so happy and smiling with her hand over her heart, and I smile right back through my tears. She told me all along that the love of my life was waiting somewhere for me.
And she was right.
He was.
Epilogue
18 Months Later
“This way.”
Julian leads me through the crowd, out onto the terrace. We’re at a wedding with Sebastian and Spencer, and I am thirty-six weeks pregnant with our first child. The dinner and speeches are over and the dancing has begun. I’m wearing a grey strapless evening dress with silver, strappy stilettos. My long, dark hair is down and set in Hollywood curls. My makeup is natural, like always. Luckily, I have a husband who is digging the whole pregnancy thing. I’ve never felt sexier.
He can’t get enough of me.
This is a high society wedding. Everyone who’s anyone is here. The groom is a childhood, snooty schoolfriend of Julian’s, as well as the boys.
Life’s good—better than good. Willow and Sammy are doing great. They’re so excited for our baby to arrive. Julian dotes on me hand and foot, too.
“Do you want a drink, sweetheart?” he asks, his hand automatically dropping to my stomach. His eyes search mine. “You okay?”
I widen my eyes. “I’m fine, Julian. Will you stop worrying?”
He didn’t want to come tonight because he thought it would be too much for me. He literally cannot talk to me anymore without having his hand on my stomach.
“Can I have a lemonade, please?” I ask.
“Of course.” He points at his two friends as he walks off. “Don’t leave her alone for one minute,” he demands.
“Yeah, yeah.” Spence rolls his eyes and he turns his attention to me as Julian walks away. “God, Bree, you must be sick to death of him. He’s like a fucking rash.” I giggle. “He’s pretty full on.”
Spencer and Sebastian have turned out to be special friends. They’ve welcomed me with open arms, and their lifelong group of three men has turned into a posse of three men and one woman. We laugh and joke all the time, and I feel totally at ease with the two of them. We do a lot together and they spend a great deal of time at our house with us. I think they’re just so thrilled that Julian is finally happy, my pregnancy is now special to all three of them. Or it could simply be the fact that all of them are pushing forty now, and this is the first baby where they’ve have had a friendship with the mother.
Either way, I now have three doting men around me.
Julian reappears through the crowd with my glass of lemonade. He hands it over. “Here, babe.”
I blow him a kiss as I take it.
Spencer frowns and glances across the room. “Who in God’s name is that?” He gasps.
Our eyes roam to where he’s looking. We see a beautiful blonde woman wearing an ice-pink dress. She’s throwing her head back as she’s laughing. Her natural blonde hair cascades down her back, and she has the most beautiful set of dimples I have ever seen. She’s absolutely stunning.
”That’s Lady Charlotte,” Julian tells him.
“Lady?” I frown. “She has a title?”
“Her father is the Earl of Nottingham.”
“Really?” Spencer whispers, fascinated.
“Don’t bother perusing that one. She is well and truly out of your league, old boy.” Julian takes a sip of his beer. “Her blood is too blue, even for you.”
Spencer smiles and raises his eyebrows at Seb, totally accepting the silent challenge.
Julian kisses me on the lips and puts his hands around my waist. “Let’s go, Mrs. Masters.”
I smile up at him. “Okay.”
“Why do you want to go?” Spence interrupts. “Stay here with us.”
“Because the prospect of taking my beautiful wife home and doing unspeakable things to her body is a lot more appealing than staying here with you two,” Julian says flatly. His sexy eyes hold mine and I get a flutter of excitement in my heart.
I cup his cheek and give him a quick kiss.
“Lucky prick.” Spencer frowns, keeping his eyes firmly on Lady Charlotte. “I need to get me some of this pregnant sex you keep going on about, Masters.”
“Hmm.” Julian smiles against my lips. “You’ll need a woman to investigate that further, Spence.”
Spencer purses his lips as he stares at the beautiful woman in the pink dress. “I do love a challenge. Maybe Lady Charlotte is dying to be impregnated tonight.”
I giggle and Julian rolls his eyes.