Warrior (First to Fight #1)(74)

He steps back and shows me his new leg. “Yeah, with my own peg leg.”

Cole comes closer to look. “Oohhhh!” he says.

“Scott, meet my son, Cole. Cole, can you say hi to my friend, Scott?”

Scott crouches down and extends a hand. Cole is more interested in touching the shiny new leg. Scott angles it so that he can see more clearly.

“You like that? I’ve got a brand new leg.”

Cole smiles and pulls down the collar to his shirt. “New heart!” he says proudly.




“You didn’t have to do that,” I tell Olivia later.

“Yes, I did,” she replies, dressing in one of those pajama sets with short shorts that I love so much. The sight of her bare legs nearly distracts me from my goal.

“I was going to get ahold of him.”

She sits next to me on the bed, smiling at me in a way that I know means she’s trying to hold back a laugh. “I love you, baby, but we both know if I hadn’t, it would have taken you years. I had Sofie. Come on…you know Sofie can put the FBI to shame when she wants to. Besides, this is a new chapter in our lives. I thought it was time that we put the past behind us so we can move on.”

“A new chapter, huh?” My hand finds the skin of her thigh. “What makes you say that?”

She presses her lips against my jaw. “Well, I figure you have to marry me now that you’ve gone and knocked me up again.”

I jerk towards her, my face going slack in shock. “You’re…”

Olivia smiles at me, bringing a hand to my cheek. “Pregnant. Yes.”

My arms go around her, pulling her close to my chest where I’m determined to keep her. “Have you been to the doctor? Is everything okay? His heart?”

“Yes, I have, and they can’t tell that yet, but the chances are slim that this baby will have the same defect,” she says.

A weight eases from my shoulders. “That’s good.”

“Just as long as you promise to be there with me.”

I cup her cheek in my hand. “Forever. You’re my little spitfire and you always will be.”

Yep, there are good days and there are bad days. For a guy like me, there always would be.

Now I know I can endure the bad days and fight for the good ones.





THE END