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I should have just stayed home. There’s a new episode of The Voice I still haven’t watched, and there’s leftover lasagna in the fridge from the team dinner Felix hosted last night. Nobody makes lasagna like our goalie and…man, I sound old.
She’s all grown up, and she’s gorgeous.
A heads up for those of you who weren’t present. When Alec saw Evie for the first time, he basically swallowed his own tongue.
Evie holds my gaze, lips pressed together for a long moment before she turns and hands Juno to Ruth then steps closer and wraps herself around my waist in a tight hug.
Juno is asleep—in my arms. I did this. And it feels amazing. I snuggle her a little closer, my cheek dropping onto her baby-soft head.
On the one hand, the image of a shirtless Alec cradling my baby girl against his chest while he sings to her is a level of sexy I could not have dreamed up myself.
I want this. I want lazy mornings in bed with my wife, a kid tucked between us. I want to make coffee for someone as easily as I make it for myself. I want to talk about a baby laughing or rolling over for the first time. I want to be a dad.
I’m only three days in, and I already want to move here. Live here forever. Raise Juno right here on this property and let her bury me under the giant maple in the front yard. Or, you know. Maybe I can just work here.
But I don’t miss the look she gives me over Alec’s shoulder, eyes wide as she mouths the word Wow.
“Misery loves company?” His eyebrows lift playfully. “I was thinking more…maybe it won’t be miserable if you’re there with me?”
His lip ticks up the slightest bit. “Good. I’m glad we’re on the same page, then.” Oh my gosh. Me. And Alec Sheridan. Megan’s freaking older brother Alec Sheridan. Are on. the same. page. And not just any page. A page torn out of an actual romance novel.
Before I can second guess and talk myself out of it, I lean forward and wrap my arms around his shoulders, pulling him into a hug. His arms slip around my waist as I breathe him in, cataloging every element of his hug. The feel of him pressed against me, the slight musk of his skin, the way his grip tightens just before he lets me go. “I’ll see you tonight,” he says, his voice low and gravelly.
“Why do I think you don’t know anything about hockey?” She huffs out a sigh. “Because I don’t. But I have read a hockey romance or two, and let me tell you, that man could star in one of them.”
I’m kissing my best friend’s older brother like I’m the main character in a freaking romcom.
“So, I have a question for you,” Alec says. “Okay.” His tongue darts out to lick his lips, my gaze tracing the movement before I force my eyes back to his. “I know it’s kinda fast, but we have known each other a really long time. And I just think…I would really like to call you my girlfriend.” A hint of vulnerability passes over his expression. “Is that okay with you?” I can’t keep a cheesy grin from breaking out across my face. “I think that’s a wonderful idea.”
“Promise me you’ll always kiss me like that,” I say, a little breathless. “Even when we’re fighting for alone time. When Juno is old enough to climb into bed with us or when I’m pregnant again and the size of a house. Don’t ever stop kissing me just like that.” Fire flashes in Alec’s eyes before he leans in one more time. “I’ve never been so happy to make a promise,” he says. And then his lips fall on mine, and he proves every single word.
