Braydon(106)

Travis glared at Ethan, but he smiled while he did.

“Thanks,” Travis groaned.

“So what is it?” someone hollered from the back.

Jessie’s attention was drawn to her sister, who was suddenly turning a bright shade of red.

“Oh my God,” Jessie whispered, unable to hold back her excitement, her hands beginning to tremble uncontrollably. “Oh my God! Oh my God!” she screamed and took off toward Kylie.

Kylie just laughed, her own grin splitting her entire face.

“I knew it! I knew there was something going on with you!” Jessie exclaimed.

“What the hell is going on?” Zane questioned, his voice echoing through the large backyard.

“Boy, watch your mouth,” Curtis called.

“We’re pregnant,” Kylie said.

Everyone began to speak at once, a million questions coming forth, most of them asking if they had heard correctly.

“Yes, you heard correctly,” Gage confirmed. “We’re pregnant.”

Jessie wrapped her arms around her sister as the tears began to fall again. “Oh my God, sis! I’m so freaking happy for you.”

“Thank you,” Kylie said, her voice rough with her own tears.

“Why didn’t you tell me?” Jessie asked, gripping Kylie’s shoulders and pushing away from her slightly. She hardly noticed when her father came to stand beside them.

“We wanted to make sure everything was going to be okay,” Kylie informed her.

“How far along are you?” Jessie asked, looking up at Travis and Gage, who were standing beside their wife, matching proud grins on their faces.

“Thirteen weeks. The baby’s due in December.”

Holy crap. She was going to be an aunt. Kylie was pregnant. This was the perfect ending to what was turning out to be a fantastic day. Finally.

Everyone around them descended and Jessie was caught up in the chaos. She didn’t let herself get pushed out this time. Or maybe Braydon made sure she didn’t. Whatever the reason, for the first time in a really long time, Jessie felt as though things were finally looking up.

Braydon loved her. He told her so.

Kylie and her husbands were starting a family.

And her dad was moving to Coyote Ridge.

She wasn’t sure she could ask for much more than that.

Braydon had wrapped his arms around her, squeezing her gently from behind, and Jessie was so caught up with emotion, she didn’t even realize she had started crying.

But thankfully, these were happy tears.





chapter TWENTY-EIGHT

“Jessie,” Braydon warned as he pulled the truck into her driveway several hours later.

“Hmm?”

“Honey, you’re gonna make me wreck my truck.” Not really, but shit, if she kept nibbling on his ear like that, he might just throw the damn thing in Park and take her right there in front of her house.

While she continued to tease him relentlessly, Braydon managed to park his truck successfully and shut off the engine. But before he could get out of the truck, Jessie was straddling his lap, crushed between him and the steering wheel. He helped her out by hitting the knob that forced the wheel up higher, giving her a little more room.

“What’re you doin’?” he asked curiously, wrapping his arms around her.

“I wanted to see how far I could push you before you broke.”

“Oh, darlin’, I’m damn close. Are you sure you want to test me?”

Jessie surprised him when she sat back and reached for the hem of her shirt, pulling it up and over her head, tossing it to the other side of the bench seat. “Yeah, I’m sure.”

Without hesitation, Braydon reached for her breasts, sliding her bra down enough to allow them to spill free, her pretty pink nipples enticing him as they came into view.

Braydon knew they should’ve been going slow, but the inferno was consuming them both. The passion that ignited without effort was surrounding them, stirring up the lust that had been kept in check for far too long. He couldn’t keep his hands off her.

Placing his hands on her waist, he lifted, forcing her to raise off his straining cock as he leaned forward and tongued one nipple, then the other. He continued to bathe them with his tongue while Jessie looped her arms around his neck, holding his head to her breast.

“Don’t stop,” she urged.

“Don’t worry,” he responded, nipping her nipple gently as he reached around and unhooked her bra before allowing it to slide down her arms. When she was naked from the waist up, he used his hands along with his mouth to tease her breasts, sucking and nibbling until she was writhing and begging.

God, he loved how responsive she was. With his focus on her nipples, he reached down and unbuttoned her shorts, managing to slide one hand down into her panties. She shifted, allowing him more room to maneuver, and Braydon took the opportunity presented to him.

He was fingering her clit gently while he sucked her nipple into his mouth, high on her soft, sweet moans.

“Braydon,” Jessie whispered.

“I’m right here, baby,” he answered. Releasing her nipple from between his lips, he looked up at her. Then he shifted, forcing her off his lap and onto the seat beside him. “Lay down.”

Jessie’s eyes widened and her lips curled up into a beautiful smile as she lowered herself down to the seat. Once she was horizontal, he relieved her of her shorts and panties after she let her sandals slip off her feet.