Total pages in book: 188
Estimated words: 182255 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 911(@200wpm)___ 729(@250wpm)___ 608(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 182255 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 911(@200wpm)___ 729(@250wpm)___ 608(@300wpm)
Finally, she let out a half laugh, half squeal before she tossed off the sheet and threw herself into their arms.
“Yes!” she gasped against Seth’s neck, then pressed kisses to Beck’s face. “Yes! Of course!”
Thrill crashed over Seth, nearly knocking him sideways. They kissed her feverishly, desperately, pushing her back to the mattress as Beck slipped the ring onto her finger with shaking hands. For a moment, the band caught at her knuckle before Seth assisted, helping the doctor slide it home. Something fundamental shifted in his chest, like a lock clicking into place. Then they adored her with their hands and mouths, whispering promises of forever.
When they finally came up for air, all of them breathing hard, Heavenly stared down at her hand in wonder. “It’s beautiful.”
“Not as beautiful as you,” Beck murmured, pressing a kiss to her temple.
Seth traced the outline of the ring with one finger, marveling at how right it looked there. “Beck is right, angel.”
Heavenly smiled. “Oh, my goodness. I can’t stop looking at it. I couldn’t have picked anything more perfect.”
Guilt panged Seth. He hadn’t had a fucking thing to do with picking out her engagement ring. He would offer to pay Beck for half, of course. But that wasn’t the same as the two of them choosing it together.
Seth wanted to be annoyed the doctor had bought it without consulting him. Hell, without even talking to him. But he could only blame himself. Until an hour ago, the two of them had feared—with good reason—that he had one foot out the door.
“It looked like you.” Beck pressed a soft kiss to her lips.
“Gosh, we’re engaged! I guess we need to set a date.” She turned to Seth. “But I don’t want to upstage your mother’s wedding.”
“And we have to consider your schooling,” Seth pointed out. “You’ve worked hard. We want you to graduate on time.”
“I do, too, but if we keep this up, by the time I get my degree, I’ll be pregnant. And if we get married after that, I’ll have to waddle down the aisle.”
All the talk about conception stabbed Seth with anxiety, but he pushed it aside. He’d not only crossed that bridge tonight, he’d burned it. There was no going back.
“Then we’ll plan on getting married after Grace, something small and intimate before you’re too far along to enjoy it,” Beck suggested. “Unless… Did you have your heart set on a big wedding?”
She shook her head. “I don’t have any family, and I don’t need an elaborate production. I just want to marry you two.”
Seth wanted that, too…but he’d have to explain the three of them to his mom. That stumbling block wasn’t new, and he wasn’t about to let that stop him. Grace would come around…eventually. “That works for me. Just…not December.”
They both nodded, well aware that December would always belong to Autumn and Tristan’s memory.
“We could always hop on a plane to Vegas tomorrow.” Beck grinned.
“Um…” Heavenly winced. “I don’t want Elvis marrying us.”
Seth nodded. “Same. And if I got married without inviting my family, they’d kill me.”
Beck shrugged. “Fair enough. January?”
“I’d be okay with that,” Heavenly replied. “Are we having a purely symbolic ceremony? Or am I legally marrying one of you?”
Seth exchanged a glance with Beck before the doctor spoke. “Actually being married will make medical and legal stuff easier, not to mention bank accounts, insurance… And the caveman in me, wants you to tie the knot with one of us.”
“You’ll still belong to us both,” Seth added.
She paused, her brow furrowing. “Okay…but how do we decide who I’m marrying?”
“We’ll figure that out later. Maybe we’ll flip a coin.” Beck smirked. “For now, come here, our bride-to-be… We want to make sure you feel really loved.”
The waggle of his brows suggested something a lot dirtier.
Seth was all too happy to join in.
As they made love again—slower this time, reverent and pulsing with their new commitment—Seth felt a deep sense of rightness. His future was set. His angel would be theirs, bound to both of them by choice and by love.
When he figured out how to break the news of their unconventional arrangement to his mother, she would love Heavenly. The whole family would. How could they not?
But even as he lost himself in Heavenly’s soft sighs, reveling in the knowledge that they were engaged and might soon be pregnant, a small voice whispered in the back of his mind.
If his future was mapped out and everything was falling into place, why did he still feel so unsettled?
Seth couldn’t sleep. Even with Heavenly’s warm body pressed against his side and Beck’s steady breathing filling the room, he couldn’t shut off his brain. The primitive satisfaction of taking Heavenly without protection, of potentially filling her with their child had been mind-blowing. The memory sent heat coursing through his veins.