Zane & Lucky’s First Christmas (Forever Love #3.5)(13)
Author: J.S. Cooper

“The reject or discount sales.” Gilbert grinned. “And if you could get us an employee discount that would be great.”

“Employee discount?” Joseph’s mouth fell open. “I can’t do that.”

“Well, when are the sales? We never buy unless an item is discounted by at least 50%,” Gilbert continued, looking very serious.

“Yeah. We don’t either.” Zane spoke up. “In fact, I don’t buy unless it’s 60% off. Me and my lady don’t have money to waste.”

“Zane,” I looked at him with a frown as I tried to stop myself from laughing.

“What, Lucky? We don’t want to go wasting Joseph’s time, do we? Not when he has so many Bugapoop products to sell.”

“Bugabooboo.” Diana corrected and we both looked at her. “It’s Bugabooboo, right Joseph?”

He looked at us with a gobsmacked expression, and I used that as an excuse to jump up and grab Zane’s hand. “Come on, honey, I think I need to go to the toilet. Sorry to leave you guys, but we have to go.”

“Wait,” Diana called after me. “Let me get your number so we can go on play dates.”

“Play dates?” I turned round to look at her. This time it was my expression that looked stunned.

“You know, you, me and your kids.” She smiled. “It would be fun.”

“Oh my God, I think I’m going to bust.” Zane shouted suddenly. “Lucky, take me home right now, or I may just bust.”

“What?”

“Just do it.” He hissed and I grabbed his hand and we hurried to the front of the room.

“Are you sure you don’t want to sign up for a store card?” Joseph gave us one last hopeful glance, and we shook our heads as we hurried out of the room and into the main store.

“You owe me, you know that, right?” Zane shook his head and me and we laughed as we ran through the aisles.

“What was that?” I looked at him with a dazed expression as we exited the store.

“You tell me, my dear. You tell me.”

“I thought it was going to be a good class.”

“Who told you that?”

“I saw some reviews on Yelp.” I blushed. “I figured other expectant mothers wouldn’t lie.”

“Maybe the other expectant mothers were all Joseph.” Zane made a face. “Trying to sell as many Bugapoopie products as possible.”

“Oh my God.” I laughed. “I thought he was going to make us all open our wallets so he could see how much cash we had. And then have us call our credit card companies to see how much credit we could get.”

“He would have been laughing with greed if he knew I had a $50,000 limit on my American express.” Zane laughed and I stared at him in surprise.

“I didn’t know you had a $50,000 limit.” I made a face. “My highest limit is $1,000 and it’s on my Capital One card that I got as a freshman in college.”

“I can put you down on my card as an authorized user.” Zane grinned. “Just don’t get too spend-happy.”

“I don’t want to be on your card.” I shook my head. “I don’t want to spend your money.”

“It’s our money.”

“No, it’s not.”

“Lucky, we’re about to be married. What’s yours is mine and what’s mine is yours.”

“Zane, I have twenty-five thousand dollars in student loans, about $450 in the bank, a $800 balance on my credit card and an old car that’s not worth more than a couple hundred dollars.”

“So? I have five bank accounts. One account has $45 million dollars.”

“What?” My eyes went wide. “Shh.” I looked around quickly. “You’re joking, right?”

“No.” He laughed and shrugged. “That’s what happens when you have a dad that’s rich as Trump, but doesn’t give shit. He plies me with money.”

“Just you?” I frowned thinking about Noah and Skylar. “What about Noah?”

“He didn’t like that Noah was a goody-two-shoes.” Zane sighed. “He said he wasn’t going to give money to someone who would just give it away.”

“That’s horrible.”

“Don’t worry. I give it away as well.” He laughed. “So it all worked out in the end.”

“Did you give any to Noah?”

“He didn’t want any.” Zane shook his head. “Though, I’m an investor in his documentary. The only investor, in fact.”

“I love you, Zane.”

“Good.” He stared at me and brushed the hair away from my face as he looked into my eyes. “I love you, too. More than you’ll ever know. I love you so much that I will let you bring me to a racket of a baby class like this and not even get mad.”

“You know this was the best laugh you’ve had all week.” I stared up into his eyes and grinned. “Without me in your life, it would be a dull existence.”

“It was a dull existence until you came along. You brought the sunshine into my days.” He leaned down and kissed me. “You put the rainbows in the sky. You are my tomorrow that came early.”

“Did you think of that all by yourself?” I kissed him back happily, feeling comforted in his arms.

“I wrote another poem for you.” He grinned down at me. “A super romantic one.”

“Oh?” I pulled away and looked at him. “Let me hear it then.”

“Lucky’s too sexy, too sexy. Lucky’s so sexy that I want to take her home. I want to take her to my bed. And have my wicked way with her.”

“That doesn’t rhyme and that’s not romantic.”

“Oh, did I say it was romantic?” He growled and his fingers ran across my ass. “I meant it was a super sexy one.”

“Zane.” I laughed and brushed his hands away. “We’re still in front of the store.”

“So?” He laughed. “These ladies know better than anyone what we’re up to. They had to get pregnant somehow.”

“Let’s go.” I grabbed his hand and pulled him with me.

“Where are we going?”

“Wherever you want?” I gave him my most seductive look. “I’m going to give you a treat for being a good boy today.”

“Hell yes.” He picked me up and swung me around. “Oops, sorry. Am I acting too excited right now?”