Page 48 of The CEO

“When do you want to renew our vows? Do you want a big wedding? Do you?—”

“I don’t need another ceremony. What I need is a wedding night. I don’t ever want to be out of your arms again. I want to sleep beside you every night and wake up with you every morning. That’s all I want.” She pressed her lips against his. This was her first kiss she initiated as a wife in love with her husband. The first of many.

Bree looked around the room at all the flowers and smiled. Adam had taken her love of flowers and set the mood to something she would love. She couldn’t imagine a more romantic and loving proposal.

Lilly hollered and cried.

Bree listened for a moment. Then she kissed Adam, her kiss full of her love for him. “Time to get our little girl. She’s growing by leaps and bounds. She won’t be a baby much longer. She’s almost a year old now. Where did the time go?”

“But, my darling bride, she’s not the last baby we’ll have. I want to start working on that as soon as possible.” He winked at her.

She was both scandalized and flattered at the same time. Bree shook her head and then laughed. “I’d like nothing more than to work on having a baby with you and giving Lilly a little brother or sister. “

“Good.” He placed a soft kiss on her mouth. “Let’s get Lilly and play with her until her nap time. Then we can take a nap, too.” He waggled his eyebrows.

“I think a nap sounds like a wonderful idea.” She wrapped her arms around his neck and placed her lips on his, kissing him with all the love in her heart. She couldn’t wait for nap time toshow him how she felt. When she pulled back, she saw Adam was smiling. That was the thing she wanted to see most…him smiling at her.

She took his hand, and they walked back to Lilly’s room to spend some quality time with their precious daughter.

One monthlater

Lilly sat in her highchair,a chocolate cupcake with one candle on it was in front of her.

“Come on, baby girl. You can blow it out. Mommy and Daddy will help.”

Bree and Adam, one standing on either side of Lilly, jointly blew out the candle on the sweet treat.

Then Bree took the candle from the treat and handed the cupcake to Lilly who took it and smashed it in her hand before getting some into in her mouth.

Adam laughed.

So did Bree. “She’ll need a bath after this.”

“We can do it together. I love watching her play in the tub. She enjoys it so much. I only hope our first child together is as good-natured as Lilly. I have a feeling the next child will be a Beelzebub in comparison.”

Bree placed two fingers on his lips. “Shh, you’ll curse us.”

He kissed her fingers.

Since he’d asked her to marry him again, they’d spent every night together making love and cuddling, even in their sleep.

Bree couldn’t remember sleeping better. She woke every morning with a smile.

Adam told her he felt the same way. He’d actually dreaded going into the office, so he’d left Emily in charge. He worked from home and what he couldn’t do there, he did on his weekly visit downtown.

Sometimes Bree and Lilly drove behind him to the office and shopped until noon. Then he would take them somewhere fun for lunch. Afterward, Bree headed home a put Lilly down for her nap while she took one herself.

She tired easily lately and needed the nap in the afternoon to be chipper when Adam returned.

On the days he was home, they’d taken to napping when Lilly did on a regular basis.

Not until Bree missed her monthly—or Riding the Crimson Stallion, as she referred to it—did she take a pregnancy test. Seeing the result, she had to be sure and took a second test. Both had the same result. Positive. She was pregnant.

She started to whoop and holler and then remembered that Lilly was sleeping. Tossing the tests into the trash, she hurried downstairs to ask Carole to prepare Adam’s favorite meal. He grew up on a ranch and was a meat-and-potatoes kind of guy. His mother’s meatloaf was his favorite thing in the world. Madelyn gave Carole the recipe so she could make it for Adam.

They hadn’t had it for a long time, so meatloaf and mashed potatoes were on the menu, along with a German chocolate cake for dessert.

She couldn’t wait for him to arrive home.