Nitro Crew Complete Series, page 64
“I love you more than anything in this world, Harlyn. I can’t imagine sharing my life with anyone but you.”
“Yep.” Her eyes darted from the ring to me. “Yep.”
“Will you marry me, Harlyn?”
Her breathing stopped and she froze. “Yep,” she gasped.
“Yep?”
She nodded her head. “Yep.”
“Yep?” I laughed. “Do you have anything else to say, babe?”
“Yep.” She looked panicked and flustered. She swallowed hard and closed her eyes.
“Are you speechless?” I had never seen Harlyn like this. I had figured she was going to be surprised, but I didn’t think she was going to be speechless.
“I love you, Remy. I love you so much I don’t even know what to say other than yep.”
“So you’ll marry me? You’re sure.” Hell, this was more nerve-wracking than I had thought it was going to be.
She grabbed the ring from my fingers and slipped it over her ring finger. “Yep.”
I wrapped her up in my arms and tackled her back onto the bed. I covered her with my body and she wrapped her arms around me.
“You’re gonna marry me, Harlyn.” It wasn’t a question anymore. It was going to happen.
“Yep, as long as Roc doesn’t kill you when you tell him.”
I leaned back and looked into her eyes. “Babe, I asked him before I asked you.”
“Shut up,” she gasped. “And he said you could ask me?”
A huge smile spread across my lips. “Yep. But he did tell me if I hurt you, he would run me over with the racecar ten times.”
She burst out laughing then lifted her hand up to admire the ring. “Then I guess you better not hurt me, Remy, because I’m pretty fond of having you around.”
I pressed a kiss to the ring on her hand. “That’s never gonna happen, babe. I love you.”
Harlyn sighed. “I love you too, Remy.”
*
Jay
“I’m pregnant.”
“I know.”
Delaney jackknifed up and stared down at me. “What the hell do you mean you know? I just got the results from the hospital the day before we left.”
I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her back onto the bed. “Baby, you’ve been eating fluffy nuts the past month.”
“So, they’re good.”
“And also the thing you craved the last time you were pregnant.”
She huffed. “Really, Jay? That is how you knew I was pregnant?”
“That, and you’ve been exhausted. I’m talking coming home from work, sleeping two hours, eating some fluffy nuts, and then going back to bed ‘til the morning.”
She reached up and brushed her fingertips down my cheek. “So, that’s more telling. I thought I was too, but I was afraid to take a test to find out that I really wasn’t.”
“Then what made you finally take one?”
She sighed and closed her eyes. “I got sick the other morning, and I knew it wasn’t anything to do with what I ate.”
“I’m assuming I wasn’t there because otherwise I totally would have heard you calling some dinosaurs.”
She laughed and rested her forehead against mine. “You were gone. I wanted to call you but I didn’t want to bug you about something that might not be.”
“Baby, you gotta know I’m always there for you. No matter what. You know I call you when I’m gone just because I want to hear your voice.”
I did. No one knew that beside Delaney because Frankie and Remy would give me hell about it for the rest of my life. I loved Delaney with everything I had but I drew the line at things that I let be known publicly.
“I know, I just didn’t want to jinx it or anything.”
I sighed and closed my eyes. “You can’t jinx this, baby.”
“But last time, Jay. Last time…” she trailed off.
“Last time, it wasn’t meant to be. It wasn’t anything you did, Delaney. It wasn’t meant to be.”
Delaney still struggled with losing the baby. There were days I can see it weighing down on her and all I could do is let her know I was there.
“And what if this one turns out that it’s not meant to be?”
“Then we try again, Del, but I’m not thinking that way. I’m not thinking that we’re going to lose this one too.”
“But Jay.”
I held her close and pressed a kiss to the side of her head. “There is no but, Del. Your doctor has said that there isn’t a reason why we can’t get pregnant and carry full term. We’re pregnant. We’re having a baby, and there isn’t a damn thing in this world that is going to keep me from being happy.”
She sighed and let me hold her. “What if it’s twins?” she whispered. “I think I might freak if that happens.”
“That might freak me out too, but I’ll still be the happiest guy in the whole world.”
Delaney closed her eyes. “We can be happy, right, Jay? We can be happy even though we lost our first one?”
And there was the other thing I knew that was bothering her. She felt guilty she was happy about having another baby. “I’ll never forget our first baby, Del, just like I know you won’t. We both loved that little guy-.”
“Or girl,” she interrupted.
“Or girl,” I chuckled, “We both loved it, and we’ll never forget about him.”
“You’re too good to me, Jay.”
All I did was love Delaney.
I was an idiot who talked too much and was lucky enough to find a woman who loved me for me.
Delaney may think I was too good to her, but I knew at the end of the day, I was one lucky bastard to have found her.
“Love you, Del.”
“I love you, too, Jay,” she whispered. She looked up at me and smiled. “Do you think room service can make us some fluffy nuts?”
*
Frankie
“I won the AC Cola Cup.”
The waiter set my mai tai in front of me, and I smiled up at him. “Thank you.”
“Did you hear me?” Brooks asked.
I sipped my drink and stared out to the ocean. “I think I was there, Brooks.”
Brooks and I were sitting at a table on the outside patio of the restaurant. We were fifteen feet away from the ocean, and I was pretty sure we were in Heaven.
“You remember what you told me if I won the AC Cola Cup?”
Oh, I remember all right. I had been waiting for Brooks to bring this up. Butterflies floated around my stomach. “Refresh my memory.”
“You’re marrying me, Frankie. You’re mine.”
I sighed and turned my gaze back to the ocean. “I was yours before you won the cup, Brooks.”
“You were?”
I laughed and sipped my drink. “I was. Even when I sailed that wrench past your head.”
“Doubtful,” Brooks laughed. “You had every intention of putting a nice dent in my skull.”
I tipped my glass toward him. “Touché.”
“So now you better pick a date.”
I leveled my gaze at him. “Did you ask my brothers?”
Brooks crossed his arms over his chest smugly. “I sure did. Remember over Christmas when I was down in the garage with them when you were cooking with Leelee, Violet, and Scarlet?”
I did. I was pissed off I had to stay up in the kitchen and they got to go down in the garage. “You asked them then?” Brooks nodded his head. “Kurt hit you?”
Brooks grumbled under his breath. “He took a swing at me but I was able to duck before his fist connected with my nose.”
I snickered. That was totally Kurt. Even having a few kids hadn’t completely mellowed him out. “Luke probably grunted, and Mitch was the one who actually acted like an adult.”
“You know your brothers so well.”
I sighed and finished my drink. “They need to make these in bigger sizes.”
“Frankie.”
My eyes connected with Brooks. “Yes?”
“Will you marry me?”
A small smile crossed my lips. “I’m all yours, Mr. Holeshot.”
The End
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Winter Travers is a devoted wife, mother, and aunt turned author who was born and raised in Wisconsin. After a brief stint in South Carolina following her heart to chase the man who is now her hubby, they retreated back up North to the changing seasons, and to the place they now call home.
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