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“I can fix that, baby.” As he settled against me, I pushed the band down and moved him to my chest. I usually wore it to bed to make sure I wouldn’t leak on the mattress, but as Milo wrapped his lips around my nipple and closed his eyes, I realized that might have to change.
He definitely wasn’t awake, but he settled in and quickly drained one side before I repositioned him on the other nipple. He’d been hungry all right, but it made me question if he was eating enough. Had he just been dreaming about food?
As good as it felt to cuddle against him and to feel him nursing, I must’ve gone back to sleep too because the alarm going off was the next thing that hit me.
It wasn’t until I reached out to turn off the alarm that I realized I was on my back and Milo was stretched out over me, trapping me against the bed. “Wake up, baby.”
Grumbling, Milo pouted and shook his head, looking slightly more awake but not happy about it. “No.”
“Yes.” Chuckling, I kissed his head and shifted him over just enough for his lips to find a nice distraction.
He made a low hum as he nuzzled against me and wrapped his lips around my nipple. Usually, I woke up aching and uncomfortable, but after feeding Milo in the middle of the night, I felt amazing. There was no tension and the immediate feeling of frustration wasn’t there either. The only thing I could feel was the warmth from the letdown and the incredible sensations I only got from Milo.
He seemed to be almost hypnotized as he drank for several minutes, but I could feel the point when Milo’s brain started to wake up. Something about the way he was sucking changed and his hands came up to pet my chest, barely stroking his fingers against me. “Good boy.”
We didn’t have time for milk and grown-up play because I had to get him and his clothes back to his house before work, but he rocked against me as he got his wake-up snack and his body came to life. “I like waking up with you.”
Making that clear right off the bat, even if I was the pain in the ass who’d just shown up at his work last night, seemed like a good idea. I didn’t want there to be any questions in his head about if he was wanted or if he was intruding. Milo hadn’t seemed to be the second-guessing worrier type, but he was waking up in my bed in a diaper, so I didn’t want to start any stressful habits.
“I liked taking care of you last night and I’m very glad you agreed to come home with me.” His quiet giggle made me smile. “I was very subtle, I know, but I appreciate you reading the room and understanding that under my hints, I wanted to be with you again.”
And I got more giggles.
“I’m not always clear, but you were amazing at looking at my signs and realizing what would make me feel special.” He thought my dryly delivered ridiculousness was hilarious and I made a mental note to make my attempts at humor before his brain fully woke up for the day.
“You even volunteered to come home with me so I didn’t have to ask.” That seemed to be what broke him because he startedshaking with barely suppressed laughter but he couldn’t do three things at once.
Drinking, holding back laughter, and holding his bladder were just too much and he lost all three. I only knew about the last one, though, because he sucked in a breath, swallowing milk wrong, and nearly died.
Eventually the coughing stopped but that might’ve been because I threatened him. “I’m going to tell Dally exactly how you died if you’re not careful. I expect you to breathe.”
I knew he was better when he managed to stop hacking and actually pouted.
“Deep breath, please. Then you can be dramatic.” Once his color had gone back to normal. “That’s much better.”
Flopping back on the bed, he gave me the deep breath I’d asked so nicely for and groaned. “Why can’t dying of embarrassment actually be real.”
Thank God it wasn’t.
“You won’t die but you will blush like crazy when you tell Dally the story later.” I wasn’t going to be the one to tattle about his gem of a story, but we both knew he would when all I got was another dramatic sigh. “If you’re not going to keel over, I’d like a kiss and a good morning.”
His glare was adorable. “You’re a pain in the butt sometimes, you know that?”
He was going to fit right in with the rest of my family…once they stopped freaking out.
Chapter 13
Milo
“He bought you diapers? That’s so cute.” Dally said that just a bit too loudly and every head in the diner turned in our direction.
“Stop that.” I was going to have to remember he had no common sense. “You can either whisper or I’ll stop telling you stories.”
He must’ve realized it was a threat I’d follow through on because he sighed. “Fine. I’m sorry.”
It wasn’t perfect but his voice was as low as he could go, so I took what I could get. “Thank you. It’s okay.”
We were having dinner on his side of town anyway, so I didn’t know anyone in the slightly grungy-looking restaurant. The bus ride back was going to be a pain in the ass, but the food was cheap and it wasn’t too far from today’s work.
