Wanting More (Mitchell Family #5)(62)
Author: Jennifer Foor

I rested my chin on Conner’s chest and looked up at him. “Say that again.”

He smiled and reached down to kiss me. “We’re goin’ to be a family.”

I turned my body into Conner’s and ran my fingers through his. He reached his arm around me, in the spooning position. “Thank you.”

He kissed the back of my shoulder. “For what?”

“Loving me.”

“Lovin’ you was easy, it was gettin’ you to believe it, that was the hard part.”

I closed my eyes and let myself drift to a goodnights sleep. I don’t know why it was so easy for me, but being in Conner’s arms made all the difference in the world.

The next morning came sooner than expected, but Conner held me tight in his arms. He even helped me look up my father’s number and call to tell him that I was okay. I didn’t mean to make the man worry, but I didn’t exactly have a choice. Since they had an alarm on their house, I didn’t have to worry so much. Besides, Rick was after me, not my father.

I wanted to ask my father if he knew anything about fifty thousand dollars, but since it meant nothing to me, I just dropped it.

The bottom line was that Rick had been stealing money that I’d been making for six years. The salon was mine and everything in it belonged to me. Rick had been living with so many lies that even he couldn’t keep them straight anymore. He could show up a million times, but he couldn’t make me leave with him. I had no secrets from Conner and now that I knew he was going to stand by me and be with me, I knew I could get through anything.

After all of the months of fighting with Conner to wait and look for a good reason to get away from Rick, now that I was pregnant, everything had changed. I no longer cared so much about having anything. If Rick wanted to fight me and he ended up taking the salon, I would still have Conner and our baby.

I figured that Miranda was going to come flying into the room giving me a piece of her mind, but she never did. Since I felt stupid, we stayed in his room all day. He went out to use the bathroom and get us something to eat.

All throughout the day, I kept waiting for the phone to ring or Rick to knock on the door, but he never did. By the end of the night, I just knew he wasn’t coming back for me. In fact, I was pretty sure that he was probably drunk somewhere, in the company of whoever he could find. Hopefully, they would both get a disease and die.

The next morning, I woke up to Conner’s kisses. I’d taken a shower before bed and couldn’t imagine how horrible my hair looked, but he didn’t even seem to mind.

I felt down to my belly, just reminding myself that none of this was a dream.

Conner kept staring at me. “What are you thinkin’ about?”

I smiled and leaned over to kiss him. “I’m thinking about being a mother.”

“Yeah, you were smiling and lost in thought over there.” He reached for my hand and kissed the back of it. “When do you want to tell my family the good news?”

I sighed and shook my head. “Maybe we should just wait. I mean, I can’t expect that they will be happy about it.”

Conner started laughing at me. “Amy, it ain’t like you’re a stranger and they’ve all suspected this was happenin’ anyway. My family isn’t goin’ to hate you, I promise.”

I thought about the first time Miranda had introduced me to her mother and how sweet I thought she was. I just wondered how sweet she would be when she knew that her son had knocked up a married woman. “I don’t know Conner.”

He laughed again and pushed up his oversized t-shirt to reveal my belly. When I looked at it, I guessed I did see a little change, but it looked like I just ate a lot, not like I was pregnant. “At the end of the day, we’re adults and this baby is my flesh and blood. I think you’ll be surprised how my family takes it. You better get up and get changed though, because I just heard Colt’s big mouth.”

I sat up really fast. “Conner, please don’t leave me in here.”

He leaned down and kissed my head. “Get changed and come out. If I stay in here while you change, I won’t want to leave this room.”

He left me to get changed and even pointed to a pile of clothes that he’d gotten from Miranda. I still hadn’t even faced her yet. This all just made my stomach hurt.

I got dressed slowly and ran into the bathroom to do something with my face and hair. I decided to just go all natural and put my hair in a ponytail. After using Conner’s toothbrush, which was the one that wasn’t any kind of character, I took a deep breath and walked out to face Conner’s family.

Chapter 39

Conner

I knew the only way to get Amy out of my room was to leave her there. As much as she didn’t want to confront my family, I needed her to at least be cordial.

When she came out, I couldn’t help but smile. Bella went right over to her and hugged her. I thought back on the day that she asked if I was going to marry her Aunt Amy. I knew I loved her then, but I’d never considered being married. This past year had changed me and now being married and having a kid was something I was really looking forward to.

After hugging Colt and Van and giving my little niece Christian a dozen kisses, the house filled with commotion. Amy stayed close to me at first, but ended up helping the girls with carrying stuff over to Ty’s parents.

I couldn’t help but look over at her every chance I got, even when she was trying her hardest to avoid my stares. She just made me so darn happy and I didn’t feel like hiding it anymore. Maybe it was too soon, but I felt like I’d waited so long already.

After dinner, Amy helped the girls clean up, but when I had to go feed the pony that Bella was getting from Santa, Amy tagged along. As soon as we got out of the house, I couldn’t help but put my arm around her. Being in a house with my horny ass family was hard enough, but knowing that my woman was also in that room made it damn near unbearable.

Once we got to the barn, Amy relaxed. She wrapped her arms around me and kissed me slowly. I grabbed her on the hips and pulled her body into mine. “Don’t start somethin’ you can’t finish.”

She backed away from me and removed her scarf. “Who says I can’t finish? I mean, Ty and Miranda were doing some freaky sex thing at the dinner table with their eyes and then Colt and Van snuck in the back bedroom to get diapers, but they didn’t come out with any.”

I started to laugh. “I can’t believe you noticed that. Yeah, at Thanksgiving, we caught Colt and Van gettin’ it on in the pantry with a house full of people and Ty and Miranda got chiggers from doin’ it in the woods. I guess my family just can’t keep their pants on.” I started unbuttoning my pants as I reached where Amy was standing. She reached inside and at first her hands were so cold that I pulled away. “Whoa, I didn’t expect that.”