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There was only one question that felt important enough to ask.
“And youchooseto deal with my brother and Greer every single day?” I shook my head.“Why?”
Jax laughed, and I marveled at how much more easily the sound seemed to come from him in the past couple of days. “I’d go crazy without something to keep me busy,” he said. Staring down at the landscaping, he plucked another weed. “I like working outside. Like working with my hands. And your brother is probably the only boss who’d be this understanding.”
“Soheknows about Henry and all your hidden money.”
Jax’s teeth gleamed white against his beard as he smiled. “Yeah.”
“No one ever tells me anything,” I muttered.
Standing slowly, Jax flicks his eyes to me briefly. “Would it have changed your opinion of me?”
Because I knew he was asking seriously, I gave it serious consideration. “Maybe,” I said after a long moment.
His gaze sharpened. “Yeah?”
I nodded. “I might have climbed into bed with you sooner.”
Jax didn’t laugh, but his eyes smiled as he watched me. “That so?” he murmured, the flex in his arms distracting my attention for a moment.
“Oh yeah. What a great baby daddy you’ve turned out to be. You give out orgasms like candy. You’re independently wealthy. And you love me,” I said simply. “What more could I ask for?”
“What more, indeed,” he said, a ghost of a smile as he turned back toward the weeds. “Still don’t know how to change a diaper, though,” he added.
I tried to hide my smile, but it didn’t work. “It’s easy. You’ll get the hang of it in no time.”
“Aren’t there like, multiple tabs and velcro and shit?”
“Yes,” I said gravely. “And there is a correct way to put them on, but I promise, even you can figure it out. I’m sure there’s a chapter about it in your pregnancy books you tried to shove in the kitchen cabinets when I walked in.” I fluttered my eyelashes.
His face went slack with shock but recovered quickly. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he murmured, a slight flush of pink tingeing the back of his neck.
I wanted to eat him alive. Briefly, I wondered if we could manage backyard sex without getting too loud. Five acres of land was a lot, but the right kind of sounds echoed.
“Mmmhmm,” I said. “Don’t think I didn’t see those before you hustled me out here and distracted me with candy.”
He grimaced and got back to work. Then he stopped, turning his face back to mine, and the determined light in his eyes had me tilting my head curiously.
“I made a thing,” he said.
I arched an eyebrow. “You might need to elaborate.”
Jax sighed. “It’s not a crib. It’s smaller. You put it in the bedroom with you when they’re, you know, tiny.”
A helpless smile curled my lips. “A bassinet?”
His cheeks were flushed slightly with a delicious pink, and he nodded. “Yeah. It’s not … I didn’t finish it yet. Thought I would this weekend, but I got a little … distracted.”
I laughed. “Sorry about that.” Jax gave me a warm look that told me how much he needed an apology for that. “Is that why you were in the shop that night?”
Eventually, he nodded. “Ian gave me some tips. But I…” He sighed heavily. “I wanted to do something. I kept thinking about how small they’ll be when they’re born. How they’ll need a safe place to sleep.” His eyes darted over to mine. “It rocks, too. So you can just lean over in bed and help them get back to sleep.”
My eyes filled with tears, but I blinked them back. “Sounds like you thought through everything,” I said lightly, my heart aching with the force of how much I loved him.
He swallowed, focusing his attention on a particularly stubborn weed. After a few moments, Jax’s movements slowed, and I watched something play out over his face.
“Your ultrasound is soon, right?”
