“I wore that to piss you off because you could never have me,” I admitted.
He laughed and looked right at me. “Savanna, I wouldn’t have taken advantage of you that night, but I’m pretty damn sure if I wanted you, I could have had you.”
I lightly smacked his chest. “Are you being cocky?”
“No, I just see the way you look at me. You think I didn’t notice it? Dressing like that to get my attention. You weren’t just doin’ that for that night. You were proving a point that you didn’t look like a boy anymore, and my God Darlin’, you didn’t. You were the prettiest thing I think I ever laid eyes on.”
“You weren’t so bad yourself.”
“Yeah, that’s why it only took you a couple days before you couldn’t resist my southern charm.”
“Are you being serious right now? You’re really that sure of yourself?” I wanted to know. He was being very ornery.
He started laughing, while stroking my arm. “Well, I reckon in the big picture of things that maybe I wanted it to happen. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I didn’t want to betray my cousin, but once I knew that you weren’t really together, well that was a game changer for me. I wanted you so bad and walkin’ away just wasn’t in my mind. The more time we spent together, the more I knew you were the one for me. I just needed you to know it too.”
I ran my hand over his face and leaned up to kiss his lips. Of course, I had to lay sideways to cuddle with Colt nowadays. “Falling in love with you was so easy. I tried to deny my feelings, but there was no way I could have ever been happy without you.”
“Look at how happy we all are now. I know we have been through some hard times, but we have the best family and we are so close. I never could have pictured our life would be this way, especially with Ty.”
“Ty is the reason I have you Colt. For a while I wanted to hate his guts, but I see my life with you and thank him every single day. Besides, I have never seen two people more made for each other than he and Miranda.”
Colt kissed my forehead. “Except us Darlin’. We were also made for each other. At least, I know you were made for me.”
“Except for us, babe.”
Colt held me until I finally fell asleep, with only thoughts of our beautiful life in my mind.
Chapter 25
Colt
There was nothing better than waking up and feeling my baby kicking. Savanna was still asleep, but I couldn’t help sliding over and putting my head over her belly. It didn’t matter to me whether we were having a boy or a girl, I just couldn’t wait to meet him or her.
Savanna stirred in bed and let out a little cackle when she saw what woke her. She ran her hand over my shoulder and through my hair.
I kissed her belly and smiled. “Mornin’, Darlin’.”
“Hey Baby,” she whispered.
“I was just spendin’ some quality time with the newest member of our family.”
“I can see that. I was wonder…….” Savanna was cut off by a fat yellow lab and a boy running in and jumping on our bed.
“Wake up! It’s raining. Can Dad stay home today?” Noah climbed up between us, hugging his mother. He also bent down and kissed her belly. “Good morning Ninja.”
“Ninja?” Savanna and I both laughed at the same time.
“Yeah, wouldn’t it be cool if we named him Ninja? We could dress him in karate clothes and he would be super cool.” My son’s imagination made us both laugh.
“Noah, we can’t name the baby Ninja. You really need to prepare yourself in case it is a girl.”
“I have girl names too. You wanna hear em?”
Something told me that I should have said no. “Sure Buddy.”
“I like Bella.”
Savanna interrupted him. “Sweetie, we can’t name the baby Bella, because it is already your cousin’s name.”
“But that is the only girl I like.”
I looked to Savanna who was really cracking up. “Mommy has a book with all kinds of names. Maybe we could look at it together today, because guess what?”
“What?” He seemed excited.
“I’m staying home!”
We’d never taken care of an infant, albeit I never had any doubts about Savanna’s mothering skills. If you asked our son, he would tell anyone that he had the best mother on the planet.
It just so happened that the day consisted of the worst rainfall we had seen so far this season. I had enough employees that on days like these I could stay home with my family. Of course, after having company over the weekend, we had run out of all of our favorite food and snacks, so we were forced to go out in the mess to fill our cupboards back up.