Total pages in book: 197
Estimated words: 199143 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 996(@200wpm)___ 797(@250wpm)___ 664(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 199143 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 996(@200wpm)___ 797(@250wpm)___ 664(@300wpm)
Well, she wasn’t entirely wrong.
But in this case, she was.
“Actually, it makes me very happy to think about you being the mother of my child,” he said, shrugging one shoulder, and holding her stare. “I just figured out the reason why I never really thought about having kids was because I never found the right woman to raise them with me, and I finally found you—now, it’s all I want.”
A sweet smile curved his wife’s lips. “You really do have a way with words when you want to.”
“My mother says I’m charming.”
“Yeah, well, you’re also her only child, and she spoiled you fucking rotten, too. I know, I deal with it everyday, now.”
God, he loved this woman.
More than she would ever know.
He didn’t deserve her.
She could both put him in his place, and make his heart race with love all in the same goddamn breath. He was a lucky fuck because he’d done terrible things—some might say to her, and to others, too—and somehow, he was still able to wake up to this woman every single morning of his life.
“I love you, Haven,” Andino said, “and if what you want is to wait, then that’s we’ll do.”
“And if I don’t want to wait?”
“Then you best cancel those fucking meetings today. All of them.”
She glanced away from him, her tongue snaking out to wet the seam of her lips before she replied, “Even dinner with your mom?”
“Where’s your phone?”
She laughed.
Andino wasn’t joking. “Where’s the phone, Haven?”
“In my bag on the bed.”
Andino supposed he had his answer, then. And they wouldn’t be leaving this bedroom today because of it. After all, he did like to keep his promises to his wife. That had been his vow, and he intended to keep it.
Surprise
“Oh, my God,” Haven laughed, stretching across the bed to try and grab the ringing phone on the nightstand. “Come on, Andino!”
“No, I made a promise, and I intend to keep it.”
His hands landed firmly to her naked hips before he yanked her back. Just like that, the phone was out of her reach, and the call stopped ringing. She might have been annoyed any other time, but all she could do was smile when Andino’s lips skimmed her spine, and traveled higher until he was kissing the curve of her shoulder.
Just like that, her body was singing.
Her mind, sky high.
Skin, so fucking hot.
He had kept his promise, and hadn’t let her leave the bedroom from the moment she agreed to what he wanted—and really, what she wanted. Not that Haven was complaining, but she had never been very good at ignoring her phone when it rang.
“Just ... let me check who it was, okay?” she said.
Andino let out a heavy sigh, and his forehead touched her shoulder before he shook his head with a chuckle. “You’re impossible, woman.”
“It might be important!”
“Anyone who wants to take time away from me loving you is not important.”
“Oh?”
“Yes.”
“Even if it was your ma?”
He stiffened behind her. “You swore.”
Haven grinned against the pillow. “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
“Haven.”
“Still in the dark, Andino.”
He grumbled under his breath, rolling away from her to fall onto his back on his side of the bed. Tipping her head up, she peeked over at him, trying her very damnedest to hide her smirk, and failing like nothing else.
Andino rolled his eyes. “Keep laughing.”
“I’m not.”
“You want to.”
“But only a little,” Haven teased.
They had a deal, him and her. It was one that worked well for them considering how much of a presence Andino’s family constantly had in their lives. But especially his parents, and more importantly, his mother. The man would never deny he was a momma’s boy through and through, and for the most part, Haven loved it.
He adored his ma.
Loved her entirely too much.
But they did not bring up family in bed.
For whatever reason, that took away any desire Andino had to fuck in an instant. And since Haven preferred Andino’s attention to be focused on her in bed, she didn’t mind following the rule of no talking about family in bed.
Unless, of course, it got her what she wanted.
Like now.
”Check the damn phone,” Andino grunted.
“Stop whining.”
She tossed him a cheeky smile over her shoulder as she rolled over to reach for the phone. She didn’t get the chance to see how he responded to her teasing because she was more concerned with why the doctor’s office for her GYNO would be calling back when she’d texted the line to cancel her appointment later that day.
“What is it?” Andino asked.
“The doctor.”
“Probably just wants to confirm—”
“No,” Haven said, sliding her thumb across the screen to unlock the phone so she could read the rest of the message. She it read it out loud so Andino could hear it, too. “Mrs. Marcello, the doctor has requested you come to your appointment as expected to discuss something that came up in your bloodwork, if at all possible. If not, please call the clinic back as soon as possible.”