Page 77 of A Package Deal

And then I realized what might be going through her head right now. The trauma she’d faced the last time she’d told a man this news. I needed to get my shit together. Fast.

“Baby. No.” I cupped her face and looked deep into her eyes. “I’m the happiest man on this planet. There’s no greater gift you could give me.” My throat closed on me and I had to cough to clear it. “I loved you before, but carrying our baby? Prepare yourself.”

She gasped out a watery laugh. “Yeah?”

I nodded. “Fuck, yeah. I’m going to pamper the shit out of you and this baby.”

She lifted her head and kissed me. I could feel myself growing hard again, still inside of her. Apparently, I just had to be told I was going to be a daddy again and that was all it took for round two.

Em pulled back. “If we have a little boy, can his middle name be Willie?”

The vision of everything my life would be hit hard and fast and clear.

I was not afraid to admit that this grown man wept.

And then he got his shit together and made love to his wife.