Chapter 158: Chapter Twenty

Nat

Naked.

I was naked.

And I was already pregnant.

So I should have been totally fine with the fact that Alec specifically asked for me to wear nothing. He even gave me a time limit. Five minutes and he was coming back into the hotel room.

The man was insane! He'd helped me out of my dress then turned when it fell from my body. He'd said something about “do overs,” which to be honest, I wasn't really sure I was comfortable with.

A knock sounded at the door.

I took a few deep breaths and answered, “Come in.”

The door opened and closed so fast I jumped in my chair.

“Perfect,” Alec's dark voice radiated throughout the room causing me to tremble in my chair. He took a few steps toward me and then stopped.

I watched as his eyes drank me in — all of me.

Uncomfortable, I started to shift in my chair.

“Don't.” His voice was hoarse; he tugged his shirt from his pants and began slowly unbuttoning. With each button my breathing picked up until finally he threw his shirt onto the ground.

And my husband was a god. Guys shouldn't be so good-looking; they shouldn't have such ripped abs that they looked airbrushed.

“Look at me,” he coaxed.

“I am.”

“Watch.”

I licked my lips as he unbuckled his belt and then dropped his pants to the ground leaving nothing but his briefs and muscle… if he got bored with singing he could always support us by being an underwear model.

I expected a kiss.

Instead he traced the curve of my face with his fingers and grabbed my hand. “I said a “do over,” what I meant was…” He closed his eyes, his jaw flexed.

“I wish I would have waited until tonight to see you like this for the first time. Regrets suck, you know that?

“But in the end, I can't bring myself to regret being with you, to regret giving myself to you, or to even regret that we got pregnant.” His eyes opened. “Look at me, Nat.”

“I am.” My voice shook.

“Good.” His smile was slow, his voice purposeful. “I vow to always look at you like this.” He knelt so that we were at eye level. “I vow to love you forever.

“I vow to take care of you when you're sick. I swear to love you even when you put on weight.

“I promise to protect you, to provide for our family… but the biggest promise, the biggest commitment I believe a man can make, is to vow to treasure his wife above all else.

“So, right now, my “do over” my gift, my vow, my promise, my oath — is to keep you first. When I wake up, my first thought will be Nat.”

He reached for my head and cupped my chin. “Nat, the first word on my lips, the first person I think of in the morning, and the last person I think of when I close my eyes.

“My world has shifted — I don't want to be in the center. Instead, I want to revolve around you. I choose to make you first and me second. I choose to put your needs above my own.

“Never will you have an insecure day. From this moment on you'll always be perfectly secure in who you are, because my love for you won't have it any other way.”

Warm tears streamed down my cheeks. “I like that promise.” I tried to keep myself from full-on sobbing… pregnancy hormones and all that.

He wiped some of my tears and then kissed me hard on the mouth, only pulling back to say “I love you” over and over again.

“What's your name?” Alec asked as his lips grazed my ear. He hovered over me and moved his left hand up my thigh.

“What?”

“Your name,” he growled, pulling my body underneath his so that we fit perfectly. That's what I'd been missing, his body and mine moving together in perfect sync.

“Nat.”

“Not good enough.” I felt lost as his body left mine. And then his mouth was on the inside of my thigh. I nearly jumped off the bed.

Clenching the sheets between my hands, I tried desperately to hold on to my sanity — but that was basically impossible, especially with a naked rock star in bed with me.

My world exploded just as Alec asked for the third time, “Your name?”

“Who cares?”

“That's my girl.” He chuckled and then all laughter stopped as he made me his over and over again, murmuring his love into my ear until we both fell asleep.